Wearing revealing clothing: haram. Assaulting a woman wearing revealing clothing, and stripping her naked in public: halal. “Rabat Salafists assault woman over dress,” by Mohamed Saadouni for Magharebia, May 11 (thanks to David): Intense debate on personal freedoms renewed recently in Morocco after a young woman wearing a short modern dress in a Rabat market […]
Morocco: Banned Islamic opposition party organizes anti-Israel march
“They chanted: ‘We will never forget you Ahmed Yassin,’ naming an Islamist Palestinian Hamas leader assassinated by the Israelis in 2004.” And so they support Hamas’ aim of destroying Israel. “Moroccan Islamists flex muscles in Rabat march,” by Souhail Karam for Reuters, March 25: RABAT (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Moroccans staged a pro-Palestinian […]
16-year-old Moroccan girl kills herself after judge forces her to marry her rapist
This is done because the focus in Islam is not on the rape at all, but on the shame the woman has brought to her family by her sexual immorality, even if she was forced. That shame is erased if the rapist marries her. “Moroccan girl, 16, kills herself after judge forced her to marry […]
Morocco: People somehow keep “misunderstanding” Islam even without al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is only the best-known brand name. They did not invent violent jihad themselves. “Morocco’s problem: Freelance jihadis, not al-Qaida,” by Paul Schemm for the Associated Press, October 15: RABAT, Morocco (AP) “” After years of promoting jihad in online forums, Muadh Irshad was ready to take his fervor to the real world. “I spent […]
Jihad bomb murders 14 in Marrakesh cafe
Allah guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for him (Qur’an 9:111). “Blast kills 14 in Marrakesh cafe,” from AFP, April 28 (thanks to Block Ness): MARRAKESH, Morocco (AFP) — A powerful blast ripped through a cafe in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on Thursday, killing 11 foreigners and three Moroccans in what […]
Morocco arrests six “extremists” for planning bombings inside, outside of country
Six “extremists.” We’re not told what they’re being extreme about, but we can tell you they’re extremely… extreme. Not “moderates.” “Morocco arrests six planning terror attacks,” from Agence France-Presse, December 27: RABAT — Moroccan authorities said Monday they recently arrested six extremists suspected of using the Internet to plan acts of sabotage involving the use […]
Morocco: Presence of Israeli guests at culture fest offends Muslims
And they accuse city authorities of — horror of horrors! — “using invitations to Israelis to attend cultural and intellectual events to normalise relations with the Jewish state.” Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Morocco: “Morocco: Israeli guests at culture fest rile Islamists,” from AKI, October 22 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Rabat, 22 Oct. (AKI) […]
Morocco: Islamic supremacists threaten pharmacies over cross symbols
A demand for respect: “We demand you remove the crosses off the façades of your pharmacies and to respect our religion.” Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Morocco: “Moroccan pharmacies threatened over cross symbols,” by Naoufel Cherkaoui for Magharebia, August 23 (thanks to Ray): A recent web post warned Moroccan businesses against displaying signs in […]
Obama administration “notably silent” on Morocco’s treatment of Christians
Surprising? Not at all, but newsworthy nonetheless. It is but one more example in the broader pattern of disturbing conduct by the Obama administration in its drive to gain the approval of the Muslim world at seemingly any cost. It will not make us safer. It will not make us, or anyone else, freer. An […]
Morocco continues purge of foreign Christians
“In April nearly 7,000 Muslim religious leaders backed the deportations by signing a document describing the work of Christians within Morocco as ‘moral rape’ and ‘religious terrorism’.” If we had a prize for ridiculous moral equivalence, that would be hard to beat. An update on this story, in which Modern, Moderate Morocco continues to enforce […]