Posted on 06/23/2020 7:20:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A Saudi official said Tuesday that the hajj pilgrimage, which usually draws up to 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world, will only see at the most a few thousand pilgrims next month due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.
The kingdom’s Hajj Minister Muhammad Benten said a “small and very limited” number of people — even as low as just 1,000 from inside the kingdom — will be allowed to perform the pilgrimage to ensure social distancing and crowd control amid the global virus outbreak.
“The number, God willing, may be in the thousands. We are in the process of reviewing so it could be 1,000 or less, or a little more,” Benten said in a virtual press conference.
While the decision to drastically curb this year’s hajj was largely expected, it remains unprecedented in Saudi Arabia’s nearly 90-year history and effectively bars all Muslims from outside the kingdom from traveling there to performing the pilgrimage. …
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That’s depressing. I always look forward to guessing the death toll from stampeding.
Stampeding versus coughing...
LOL
There’s always at least one stampede.
Can’t we tell them that it’s an infidel hoax? We can even get the Chicoms to put out propaganda saying that.
The Chicoms would immediately blame it on the USA, of course.
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