{"id":95759,"date":"2015-09-26T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T03:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=95759"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T03:12:19","slug":"the-real-hajchallenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=95759","title":{"rendered":"The real hajchallenge\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIRACULOUSLY, stampedes do not happen more often and on a much bigger scale, given the millions who congregate in Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage. The recent stampede in nearby Mina took over 700 lives and caused injuries to well over 800, the second largest number of victims ever. The stampede of 1990, occurring in a pedestrian tunnel, took the heaviest toll when 1,426 pilgrims died. Fortunately, no Malaysians were involved in this latest calamity. However, some two weeks ago, when a crane crashed into Meccas Grand Mosque, the first of two fatal tragedies at this years haj, Malaysian lives were lost. And, naturally, some are blaming the Saudi authorities for both tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1KVBWqx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIRACULOUSLY, stampedes do not happen more often and on a much bigger scale, given the millions who congregate in Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95760,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95759\/revisions\/95760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}