Muslim prayers in the streets of Paris? Row upon row of worshippers under the eyes of uniformed French policemen? Hundreds of men chanting “Allahu akbar” in open-air mosques? A series of videos posted online over the past two years, depicting all of the above, by a journalist using the pseudonym “Maxime Lépante” have provoked a [...]

Hajj literally means ‘to set out for a place’. Islamically however it refers to the annual pilgrimage that Muslims make to Makkah with the intention of performing certain religious rites in accordance with the method prescribed by the Prophet Muhammad (saws).