Islamic Society in Morocco
"Can Women's Rights Coexist With the Tenets of Islamic Law?" [usnews.com] got it partly right: "to veil or not to veil" is hardly the question, but he failed to mention the landmark progress achieved for women in Morocco.
Not only did King Mohammed VI's proposals emerge after considerable public discussion among many diverse elements of Morocco's civil society, they passed Parliament with the support of a broad coalition of members, including the Islamist PJD party. Directly to the author's question of compatibility of Islamic and universal values, every one of Morocco's reforms was grounded in Koranic texts specifically to demonstrate that the accordance of equal rights to women is compatible with Islam. This was a triumph not only for Morocco, but for women everywhere in the Muslim world, and serves as a model for those who seek to accomplish in their own countries what Morocco has shown to be possible. With respect to the response to 9/11 "from Morocco to Indonesia" ["Why Did So Many Muslims Seem to Celebrate 9/11?" usnews.com], it should be noted that the Moroccan King immediately convened an enormous solidarity service in the cathedral in Rabat. Moroccans have no sympathy for Osama bin Laden, themselves having been subjected to a bloody terrorist attack in Casablanca in May 2003. That tragic event precipitated nearly a million Moroccans pouring immediately into the streets to protest such barbaric behavior, and youth groups from the nation's poorest neighborhoods led the way carrying signs of a red Hand of Fatima that read "hands off my country." Articles that treat the entire Arab-Muslim world as a monolith do not contribute to our understanding of this diverse set of countries and peoples. Rather, such pieces damage our ability to understand each other by reinforcing the inaccurate misconceptions held by both sides.
Robert M. Holley
Executive Director
Moroccan American Center for Policy
Washington
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Muslims Pouring Into The Streets in Protest...
Yeah right.
They were not protesting against Islamic Terrorism at all.
They were only angry because someone blew up their own stinking cesspool of a neighborhood and nothing more - yet remain perfectly happy and do not dream of pouring into the streets in protest when "Kaffirs' are blown up.
Where were all of these angry protesters on 9/11 or thereabouts when 3000 innocents were killed at the hands of murderous Muslims???
to santiago
if all the muslims go to war then it's over! think about it and stop the hate. if you want to know more about islam and the real religion just ask and i will be happy to help you understand. throught history if you know what it means humans always went to war over stupid things and stupid reasons. i am sure you blame every war on the muslims even the ones that happned in europ and asia. 1st of all Mohamed didn't get married when he was 6 are you dammmmmmmmmm? 2end his wife was khadija and she was his boss at first and she married him and so forth........ ignarant people like you are the ones who talk smak usually everytime they are faced with a challenge.
god bless you and show the way to the books, go to the library and lear you damm ass!
Comments from ignorants never harm...
It's right that moroccans had sympathy with the US after 9/11. They even attended church ceremony in morocco afterwards... But I dont see christian or jews protests for killing hundred of thousands muslims including women and children everywhere in the world. Compare to that 9/11 was nothing perpetrated by a few.
I look at these stupid haters and I praise god I'm not one of them alhamdoullilah al3aly al3adim!
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Moderate Islam is BS!
Moderate Islam is an Oxymoron.
Just the phrase "Moderate Muslim" is kind of like saying a Vegetarian Cannibal, Careful Rapist or Gentle Ax-Murderer.
That awful book - "The Koran" - and the vile, sick 'prophet' whose delirious ravings fill it have spawned more violence and oppression than any single evil tome to date. To follow the ravings of a hallucinating epileptic mass murderer, brigand, serial rapist and pedophile is to follow madness.
Mohamed was a singularly evil man who began as a penniless worker, eventually marrying and later murdering his wealthy employer Kaddiyah, and subsequently marrying, raping and enslaving scores of women, most disgustingly 6 year old Aisha - his favorite. He married Aisha when she was only 6 years old, and raped her when she was 9 and he was 50.
Before then, and after he was a common thief and brigand robbing, raping and pillaging his way across Arabia and convincing the gullible yokels there that he was some sort of prophet. He was an epileptic madman and imagined it all - Muslims are the only people who have not yet figured this out.
Some prophet! Some religion!
Islam is for the criminally insane, and daily their actions and interactions with followers of other faiths proves this.
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