{"id":6990,"date":"2024-06-12T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T09:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2024-06-12T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:55:44","slug":"illegal-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/06\/12\/illegal-hajj\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019Illegal\u2019 Hajj (update)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hajj Security Forces:<br><br>\u201cSecurity patrols in the Holy Capital arrest 4 Pakistani and Myanmar residents for fraud and deception for promoting fake Hajj campaigns and selling fake Hajj bracelets.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQMFX5sGHN\">pic.twitter.com\/YQMFX5sGHN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Inside the Haramain (@insharifain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/insharifain\/status\/1799903185559036338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Illegality\u2019 is probably in the eye of the beholder here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20240605-hajj-on-the-cheap-off-the-books-pilgrims-hide-out-in-mecca\">AFP\/France 24, Hajj on the cheap: off-the-books pilgrims hide out in Mecca, 5 Jun 2024<\/a>. \u201cLiving on canned beans and meat, the 70-year-old Egyptian has been hiding out in a Mecca apartment for weeks, hoping to evade a Saudi dragnet and perform the hajj pilgrimage illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was definitely my story of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just to update on this &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/insharifain\/status\/1798726565636837542?s=61&amp;t=aQR9u_FzwMRkjPlTqHIYWQ\">Inside the Haramain<\/a> reports on arrests following \u2018illegal hajj\u2019 facilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Illegality\u2019 is probably in the eye of the beholder here: AFP\/France 24, Hajj on the cheap: off-the-books pilgrims hide out in Mecca, 5 Jun 2024. \u201cLiving on canned beans and meat, the 70-year-old Egyptian has been hiding out in a Mecca apartment for weeks, hoping to evade a Saudi dragnet and perform the hajj pilgrimage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,110,111,112,277],"tags":[325,299,221,55],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-hajj","category-mecca","category-pilgrimage","category-saudi-arabia","tag-egypt","tag-hajj","tag-mecca","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7023,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/7023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}