How Many Deaths Before Hajj Management Changes

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Question:

How many deaths at Hajj should occur before Saudi Arabia seeks help from other Muslim nations? - A question about recurring Hajj stampedes and deaths, and whether Saudi Arabia should share management with other Muslim nations. :::

Answer:

People getting killed does not mean that the arrangement made was poor - unforeseen circumstances might happen during events of such huge scale.

In fact if you compare the number of people dead or injured then it is minuscule compared to the millions of pilgrims who are visiting every year.

And every year they are learning from their experience and hence making better arrangements as compared to previous years.

There is not much which other Muslim countries can offer which Saudi is not doing already.

Now answer to some common myths/alligations:

“… the Saudi government receives a lot of money each year for hosting Hajj pilgrims…”

From whom does Saudi Government receive money for Hajj ? as far as it is known the Saudi Government has its own state budget for Hajj and it doesn’t receive money for hajj from others

“…The security of Hajj festival is of paramount importance and Saudis shouldn’t have assigned it to anyone else much less Israeli entities…”

First of all it is a claim that the security is outsourced to Israeli companies, secondly there is difference between Israeli company and Israeli government.

Lot of technologies which we are using today are coming from Israeli companies and we all are using it.

“…Furthermore, the ruling of Islamic scholars declaring “Wahabism or Salafism is NOT an Islamic sect” …”

Yes because salafi means the pious predecessors and salafi islam means to follow the Quran & Sunnah upon the methodology of the pious predecessors and during the time of prophet peace be upon him there were no sects - but they were the best generation and role model for all muslims till day of judgement

“…Saudi Arabia’s government is a NON MUSLIM government …”

It shows that you are ignorant about Islam, there is no Islamic scholar who has declared as such - ONLY TERRORIST GROUPS LIKE ISIS & Al Qaeda have said such things about Saudi Government; So do you consider ISIS and Al Qaeda and deviated individuals who support & promote these ideologies as SCHOLARS ?