Moroccan Political Figure Calls for Hajj Boycott, Citing Yemen Conflict Concerns

While Morocco has just withdrawn from the coalition in Yemen, and the Houthis have even warmly thanked it for this, Mustapha Moâtassim, secretary general of a party that was banned in 2018, the Al Badil Al Hadari party, has just indirectly supported the Moroccan decision. According to him, the income from the sacred ritual of the pilgrimage to Mecca would be used to buy weapons to shoot at the people of Yemen and to buy good relations with Trump and his entourage who, among others, would be enemies of the Palestinian cause.

Moâtassim declares on his Facebook page that "the poor of Morocco, the besieged of Gaza, the starving of Yemen, the Syrian refugees and others should be the priority to receive the money spent on the hajj and Umrah, money on which a VAT is collected which goes to the Saudi State and which may be used to finance Turki Al Sheikh’s parties, with a detestable reputation".

Mustapha Moâtassim, secretary general of the banned party Al badil al hadari, but also a university professor in Rabat, says that this decision is personal and that he refuses "that any of his dirhams go to the purchase of weapons to massacre the Yemeni people or to sow discord in Libya or to conspire against the security and unity of the Arab and Muslim world..."