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		</div><p>Two-hundred survivors and relatives from the Christchurch mosque shootings are travelling to the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia this week as guests of King Salman.</p>
<p>The king is paying for their airfare, accommodation and travel costs, a bill that will run over one million US dollars.</p>
<p>Many of those travelling hope the trip will give them a chance to heal.</p>
<p>An Australian white supremacist has been charged with killing 51 people at two mosques in the March 15 attacks.</p>
<p>The Christchurch shootings have been cited as inspiration by other white supremacists, most recently in an attack in El Paso, Texas, that left 22 people dead.</p>
<p>Among those travelling to the Hajj is 33-year-old Aya Al-Umari, whose brother Hussein, 35, was among those killed at the Al Noor mosque.</p>
<p><em>“We had a very typical sibling relationship,”</em> she said.</p>
<p><em>“So you have your nagging elder brother, nagging little sister.</em></p>
<p><em>“But at the end of the day you love each other, even though you don’t verbally say it.</em></p>
<p><em>“But you just telepathically know that.”</em></p>
<p>She said witnesses and video taken by the gunman indicate her brother stood up to the attacker, allowing others to escape.</p>
<p><em>“So he fought to the very last minute,”</em> she said.</p>
<p><em>“And this is Hussein, in his nature.</em></p>
<p><em>“He’s always the type of person who would want to see if there is danger, he’d face it, he wouldn’t escape from it.”</em></p>
<p>When visiting Mecca, Ms Al-Umari said, she will pray for her parents and herself to have the patience to cope with the loss of Hussein.</p>
<p>She also plans to pray for the other families from her mosque who lost loved ones.</p>
<p>And she says she feels her brother will be with her in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p><em>“I will carry his presence with me the whole time when I’m in Mecca,”</em> Ms Al-Umari said.</p>
<p><em>“He is with us every day. But in the journey, I will feel like he will accompany me.”</em></p>
<p>The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam.</p>
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