France’s Muslim Council recommends French defer this year’s hajj to 2021
The French Muslim Council (CFCM) has recommended that the country’s Muslims scheduled to perform the hajj this year postpone it to 2021 due to the pandemic.
The CFCM is a national elected body and the official intermediary of the French Muslim community with the government in the regulation of Muslim religious activities in the country.
“Given the tight deadline to the start of the pilgrimage and the lack of official information from the Saudi authorities as well as unknown conditions with regards the opening of international borders (quarantine dates etc), the CFCM strongly recommends that Muslims in France postpone their pilgrimage to next year,” CFCM president Mohammed Moussaoui said in a statement in French on Thursday (June 11).
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