ZULKARNAEN Nasution, a haj and umrah (minor pilgrimage) guide from Indonesia, was driving down the Ibrahim al-Khalil Street in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, when he saw a group of people sitting on the yard of the Hilton Makkah Convention Hotel on the afternoon of Friday, March 6. The around 200 people wearing pilgrimage clothing were apparently Indonesians wanting to visit Kaaba at the al-Haram Mosque for a minor pilgrimage. “They had waited t