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| Morocco places limits on preachers Friday sermons |
| 2002-06-17 |
| Morocco has banned imams in the country from engaging in any "electoral propaganda" during the weekly sermons of Friday. "It is forbidden for Imams to undertake any form of party or electoral propaganda at the Friday sermons," Moroccan minister of Habous (endowments) and Islamic affairs, Abdelkbir Alaoui M'daghri said Wednesday. "The preachers have the right to adhere to political parties, but must not use mosques to diffuse political or electoral propaganda." Any preacher who would support or attack any political side will be severely penalized, the minister insisted. The move is part of Morocco's drives to ensure free and honest elections next September. Wonder how much of that is to keep them from disseminating Salafist propaganda? The decision was issued four days after the arrest of the Soddy Boat People. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |