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The Mecca stampede which claimed the lives of over 700 Muslims would have been avoided if the organisers of Hajj did their logistical homework well.
The disaster, which the Saudi government would like others to believe was caused by indisciplined pilgrims, is unfortunate. Worse, it is rather racist for the Central Hajj Committee head, Khaled al-Faisal, to blame the disaster on “pilgrims from Africa”..
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