Abdel Halim

The experience is spiritually overwhelming, according to Professor Abdel Halim, the director of the Islamic Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London."People throughout their lifetimes are yearning to do that [pilgrimage] and, once you get there, it really is a very highly charged, peaceful, spiritual experience, from which people emerge different than before they started," he told RFE/RL.
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However, Halim of the Islamic Institute in London takes a different view.He says that no terrorists, if they are Muslims, will come anywhere near the hajj."No Muslim will take this opportunity because there is an emphasis in the Koran about the safety and peace of Mecca and all the area where the hajj takes place, and I do not believe they would do [any act of terrorism] because it would be a tremendous propaganda blow against themselves," he said.