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ABUJA - Saudi Arabia has refused entry to over 1,000 Nigerian women Hajj pilgrims because they were not

About 1,000 women are still stuck at Jeddah airport

Authorities in Saudi Arabia refuse entry to over 1,000 Nigerian women Hajj pilgrims because they were not accompanied by men.

accompanied by men, Nigerian officials said on Wednesday.

The women had began arriving on Sunday at the airport in Jeddah, in western Saudi Arabia, said a report compiled by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, which oversees Nigerian participation in the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.

"Upon enquiries by the reception team officials of the National Hajj Commission in the airport, they were told that the pilgrims were held back because of lack of mahram (lawful male accompanying pilgrim)," said the report, which was submitted to the Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.

About 171 of the women returned to Nigeria on a flight on Wednesday, an official said.

"These women were not deported. They were returned based on the decision by the National Hajj Commission because the embarrassment from the Saudi authorities was becoming unbearable," commission spokesman Umar Bala said.

Bilateral talks were ongoing between officials of the two countries to resolve the issue, he added. He said that about 1,000 women were still stuck at Jeddah airport.

Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Wednesday set up a five-member team to deal with the Saudi authorities "over the issues surrounding the detained Nigerian female pilgrims at King Abdul-Azziz international airport, Jeddah", an official statement said.

According to the report presented to parliament, Nigerian pilgrims' welfare boards have in the past acted as "mahrams" and visas had been granted on that basis.

The report said that officials observed that flights which arrived at the Medina airport were not subjected to such treatment.

"Only those in Jeddah were affected. Checks at the Jeddah airport revealed that only Nigerian pilgrims were subjected to such treatment," the report said.

Last year, nearly three million Muslim pilgrims performed the Hajj, which represents one of the five pillars of Islam and must be performed at least once in a lifetime by all Muslims who are able to do so.

Roughly half of Nigeria's 160 million people are Muslim. Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation.

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Comment by Umm Muhammad on September 28, 2012 at 7:10am

It says in this article:

"Only those in Jeddah were affected. Checks at the Jeddah airport revealed that only Nigerian pilgrims were subjected to such treatment," the report said."

 

This should really be looked into but I doubt that it will.

Comment by Umm Muhammad on September 29, 2012 at 6:32pm

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'California con men aren’t the only ones making fun of Islam, as Saudis make a mockery of Hajj, forcing hundreds of women to turn back “because their male guardians had been checked and cleared ahead of them” so at the women’s turn “security claimed they were not accompanied by their guardians and were unwilling to listen to any explanation”:

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