Montgomery County woman says travel agency encouraged her to lie on religious pilgrimage to Mecca [Video]

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A concerned Maryland woman is short of $11,000 after traveling to Saudi Arabia with the same traveling company as a Bowie couple who died in Mecca earlier in June.

Nemata Kamara of Montgomery County traveled with Silver Spring-based traveling agency Ehajj and Umrah Tours in June to fulfill one of the five pillars of Islam in Saudi Arabia. But to her despair, the traveling company issued her the wrong visa and encouraged her to lie to immigration officials in Saudi Arabia to let her in.

“It really pains me know knowing that, you know, something I’ve been praying for, hoping for – and then I finally planned it and never had the opportunity to experience it,” said Kamara, who had to return to the United States without experiencing what she described as one of the “holiest experiences in Muslim culture.”

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