Anger among Muslims that lucrative deal may be enriching Indian BJP activists,whose Islamophobia has been widely reported. The company tasked with collecting and facilitating applications from prospective Hajj pilgrims living in western countries has at least one investor with close ties to India's government,Middle East Eye can reveal. Last week,Saudi authorities announced that would-be Hajj pilgrims from Australia,Europe and the United States would need to apply for visas via the government portal Motawif,a move intended to crack down on what it called "fake" travel agencies.
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