Watch the Mecca video stirring up another Saudi controversy

Social media in Saudi Arabia was all aflutter Tuesday over the video of a man using a motorized scooter to circle around his pilgrimage in Mecca. 

In a horribly-shot vertical video, you see a robed man soaring past the rest of his fellow pilgrims with little circles of light at his feet. This sparked outrage online and even prompted a fatwa specifically banning the use of scooters during Hajj.

Here's the video: 

#معتمر_يطوف_حول_الكعبة_بسكوتر سلامات يا خال pic.twitter.com/0Icl2cWgaZ

— EJesus (@essa9e) August 31, 2015

The clip triggered a barrage of Twitter responses. We also heard from the scooter-rider himelf — revealed as Baraa Hamed, a Saudi Arabian doctor in the capital Riyadh. On his Facebook, the physician said he used the scooter because he was incredibly tired after performing a 15-hour surgery. After all, he said, isn't religion supposed to make someone's like easier?

Then he filmed himself riding the scooter around the hospital. 

#السعودية أنا المعتمر الذي طاف بالاسكوتر ؛ اليسر اُسلوب حياة و ليس جدل https://t.co/zed4vNj7CV

— Baraa Hamed (@BaraaHamed) September 1, 2015

We're not sure how his own response will work on his fatwa-donning opposers, but for now we're just filing this story away in the "things that blew up on Twitter in Saudi" folder. Have a look at some of the social media defenders and complainers below.

شي عادي مثله مثل الكراسي المتحركه لكن السكوتر فقط فيه شويه خطوره ع المعتمر نفسه لانه ممكن يختل توازنه ويطيح .. #معتمر_يطوف_حول_الكعبة_بسكوتر

— عمر القرني (@omar191930) September 1, 2015

This is just like a wheelchair, but my objection is that he might just fall down.

رد المعتمر الذي طاف بالسكوتر كان في عمليات 15ساعةوذهب للبيت العتيق لشكر الله على نجاح العملية يطلع نكره ويحرم #معتمر_يطوف_حول_الكعبة_بسكوتر

— محمد الحمد (@hamdooon525) September 1, 2015

He is a doctor who just finished a 15 hours surgery successfully; he was tired and wanted to thank Allah for the surgery.

#معتمر_يطوف_حول_الكعبة_بسكوتر باقي هذي متى نشوفهابالسما يطوفون يقلع من سطح التوحيد ويرد لسطح التوحيد pic.twitter.com/IB36eyQ85u

— bandar al otaibi. (@bandar504) September 1, 2015

Very soon we will see people circumnavigate around the Kaaba using this machine, you takeoff from you house roof and start the journey.

#معتمر_يطوف_حول_الكعبة_بسكوتر اليوم scooter وبكرا وبعدها skateboard ويااااليل مطولك

— (@octo0ober) September 1, 2015

This time they used a scooter, the next time they will use a bicycle.