Al Jazeera News :
Depok, Indonesia – Saudi Arabia has “politicised” access to the Hajj, according to organisers of a Muslim youth conference in Indonesia.
Ziyad Abdul Malik, chairman of the Muslim Students Association’s (HMI) branch in South Jakarta, lambasted the kingdom for using the pilgrimage to Mecca, considered Islam’s holiest city, to impose its policies on other Gulf nations and Muslim-majority countries.
HMI, the largest student group in Indonesia,
organised the event – dubbed “Islamic Holy Places for All of the Ummah”- at the Indonesia University in Depok.
Malik went on to accuse Saudi Arabia of interference in the conference itself. The event was originally slated to take place at the State Islamic University in Jakarta, located in the Indonesian capital, but it was cancelled at the request of the Saudi embassy.
Other organisers echoed Malik’s criticisms, arguing that Saudi Arabia had let political rows with several countries – Qatar, Syria, Iran and Yemen, among others – influence its Hajj regulations.
Depok, Indonesia – Saudi Arabia has “politicised” access to the Hajj, according to organisers of a Muslim youth conference in Indonesia.
Ziyad Abdul Malik, chairman of the Muslim Students Association’s (HMI) branch in South Jakarta, lambasted the kingdom for using the pilgrimage to Mecca, considered Islam’s holiest city, to impose its policies on other Gulf nations and Muslim-majority countries.
HMI, the largest student group in Indonesia,
organised the event – dubbed “Islamic Holy Places for All of the Ummah”- at the Indonesia University in Depok.
Malik went on to accuse Saudi Arabia of interference in the conference itself. The event was originally slated to take place at the State Islamic University in Jakarta, located in the Indonesian capital, but it was cancelled at the request of the Saudi embassy.
Other organisers echoed Malik’s criticisms, arguing that Saudi Arabia had let political rows with several countries – Qatar, Syria, Iran and Yemen, among others – influence its Hajj regulations.
