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Morocco: Dissident receives 100 death threats in a week for defying daytime eating ban for Ramadan

Hmmm, why would that be?  Doesn’t our resident troll Solkar keep telling us that we got it all wrong and that we are ‘radicals & extremists’ while his country is full of tolerance and moderation?

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“There is no compulsion in religion,” (Qur’an 2:256) except when there is. And that time comes when the implementation of Sharia is strong enough to impose criminal punishments for the neglect of religious observances: i.e., when the time for the soft sell is over.

“Threats for breaking Morocco fast,” from BBC News, September 18, H/T JW

A Moroccan man campaigning to change the law banning eating in public during the Muslim Ramadan fast says he has received 100 death threats this week.

Radi Omar denied that his group was anti-Islam. “We are in favour of individual freedom,” he told the BBC.

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Breakfast in Morocco

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In recent years many Western nations have done their best to help enforce the legal requirements of shari’a when pressured by their Muslim minorities. The pandering has even reached the point where, during Ramadan, non-Muslims in public employment are sometimes forbidden to eat their lunch where Muslims can see them.

Now, in one of the bitter ironies of our time, a group of courageous Moroccans is risking arrest and punishment for asserting the right to eat in public.

While we are rushing pell-mell to surrender our civil liberties, people in Morocco are struggling to claim theirs for the first time.

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According to ANSAmed:

Ramadan: Moroccans Attempting to Break Fast Reported

(ANSAmed) — RABAT, SEPTEMBER 15 — Six people have been reported to the legal authorities for attempting to publicly break their Ramadan fast in Mohammedia (80km south of Rabat).

The group said that they are part of the “Alternative movement for the defence of individual liberties”, unheard of until now, but which includes Zineb Elghzaoui, a journalist for the Journal Hebdomadaire, as one of their members.

The demonstrators, who were blocked by police, were supposed to break their Ramadan fast “to protest against a law punishing non-observance during the month of Ramadan”. It is the first time in Morocco that a group of people publicly demanded the right not to fast.

In a statement issued by press agency MAP, the Ulema Council of Mohammedia denounced “this loathsome act that challenges God and the prophet’s teachings: a public attack of this nature on religion cannot be tolerated”. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims are called to abstain from food, drink, smoking, and sexual relations from dusk until dawn.


Islamic Radicalism Slows Moroccan Reforms

By STEVEN ERLANGER and SOUAD MEKHENNET

Thanks to Mullah

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King Mohammed VI, on horse, held a ceremony of mutual allegiance in July in Tetouan in the north, a hotbed of extremism.

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Morocco has long been viewed as a rare liberalizing, modernizing Islamic state, open to the West and a potential bridge to a calmer Middle East that can live in peace with Israel.

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But under pressure from Islamic radicalism, King Mohammed VI has slowed the pace of change. Power remains concentrated in the monarchy; democracy seems more demonstrative than real. While insisting that the king is committed to deeper reforms, senior officials speak instead of keeping a proper balance between freedom and social cohesion. Many discuss the threat of extremism in neighboring Algeria.

Since a major bombing of downtown hotels and shopping areas by Islamic radicals in 2003, and a thwarted attempt at another bombing campaign in 2007, there has been a major and continuing crackdown on those suspected of being extremists here.

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Morocco Jihad

47 people convicted in Morocco terror trial

More indications that “moderate” Morocco is not deserving of that epithet. “47 people convicted in Morocco terror trial,” by Hassan Alaoui for the Associated Press, from JW

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan court convicted 47 people and sentenced them to up to 30 years in prison over a suicide bombing last year at a Casablanca Internet cafe, a lawyer said Friday.

These females seem to be missing their husband

Spain arrests 18 Moroccans suspected of links to al-Qaeda

Eurabia Alert. “Spain: Eighteen arrests during nationwide anti-terror raids,” from AdnKronos International, 

A criminal court in Sale, near the capital Rabat, gave the longest jail term of 30 years to Abdelkrim Ougard late Thursday, said lawyer Khalil Idrissi, who defended two other suspects on trial. Ougard was accused of forming a criminal gang with the aim of committing terrorist acts, making explosives, theft, forgery and failure to denounce terrorism.

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Morocco shuts down 60 Koran schools advocating child marriage

* Aisha the Child Wife of Muhammad

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*  How can it be wrong? The prophet did it, and every good Muslim is to emulate Muhammad. This cleric was simply teaching the correct Islam:

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88 
Narrated ‘Ursa:
The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with ‘Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).

Authorities in Morocco have shut down around 60 Koranic schools belonging to a Muslim theologian who argues that girls as young as nine can marry, officials said today.

The authorities also plan to close down the Internet site on which Sheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al-Maghraoui decreed earlier this month that the marriage of nine-year-old girls is allowed by Islam.

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Moroccans won't submit to pedophile demands, not yet…

* They must be bad Muslims, these Moroccans. After all, the prophet did it, and the prophet could do no wrong. Right?  But they must be brought into the fold, otherwise there will be JIHAD!!!!

Moroccans react strongly to fatwa authorising underage marriage

A Moroccan cheikh has said parents may marry off their underage girls. Human rights and children’s advocacy organisations, and many Moroccans, have denounced the fatwa, saying it “endorses rape”.

 

By Imane Belhaj for Magharebia in Casablanca –

[Naoufel Dekkaki] Moroccan Cheikh Mohammed Maghraoui has caused indignation among rights groups and citizens who denounce his recent fatwa authorising the marriage of nine-year-old girls.

Moroccans and rights groups are speaking out against a recent fatwa that would allow parents to marry off their underage daughters.

Opponents to Cheikh Mohammed Maghraoui’s fatwa say the marriage of nine-year-old girls is a violation of human rights in general, and children’s rights in particular.

Maghraoui said that at the age of nine, girls are capable of marriage, just like Aisha was when the Prophet Mohammed married her.

“We thought we were rid of those problems after the passage of the family code, which included a number of guarantees to protect children from early marriage, and after setting up the Fatwa Council,” the Democratic League of Women’s Rights (LDDF) said in a statement.

The fatwa “endorses rape and child abuse of a nine-year-old child,” the LDDF statement continued, adding that the organisation believes the fatwa goes against the children rights’ convention and the traditions of the Moroccan people.

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