Hajj preparations may have served as a trap for religious activists.

Evidence

One cannot help wondering whether the preparations for the hajj that he made (see below) were a trap that would allow the authorities to pick up at some convenient moment, and in a convenient way, a whole group of religious activists ready assembled for them. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 802

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how authoritarian regimes can weaponize subjects’ own religious obligations as bait — parallels modern surveillance of pilgrims, activists, dissidents.