Hajj is now a complete TV show.
And a better TV showoff is possible with a controlled 1000 hajj performers, than say an uncontrolled 6 million.
"Look we are performing the hajj army styled. What's a better show than a military march of the hajjies?"
And Plague had been ransacking the Muslim emperor since the early history, still it never stopped the hajj. Even in this 1920s people were performing hajj living in plague.
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