News Date: 25th November 2013 Concerns about creeping radicalism in Spain’s North African enclaves have made military commanders question the loyalty of Muslim soldiers recruited from those regions, prompting staff shifts and worries about religious tolerance. The doubts – focusing on whether recruits from the two enclaves on the Moroccan […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013 Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Morocco rarely figures into international news headlines these days, something of a virtue in this restive part of the world. The term Maghreb, which translates as “land of the setting sun,” eventually came to denote a stretch of land starting in the […]
‘Risalat New York,’ the Arab world’s only non-Israeli Jewish-hosted radio show, offers perspective from Brooklyn By Joseph Braude|November 14, 2013 12:00 AM the Tablet Sunday night for me is always […]
FAROUK LUQMAN ARABNEWS It is a five-and-a-half hours flight from Jeddah to Casablanca, the largest city of Morocco — one of the most beautiful countries in the world and the […]
By Carissa D. Lamkahouan Freelance Writer, USA Sunday, 03 November 2013 00:00 I’m still not sure where my home is. I think of going back to Marrakech, and I’m filled […]
Rabat Plan of Action on the prohibition of advocacy of national,racial or religious hatred that constitutes incite to discrimination, hostility or violence. Conclusions and recommendations emanating from the four regional expert workshops organised by OHCHR, in 2011, and adopted by experts in Rabat, Morocco on 5 October 2012. READ FULL […]
Rabat Plan of Action on the prohibition of advocacy of national,racial or religious hatred that constitutes incite to discrimination, hostility or violence. Conclusions and recommendations emanating from the four regional expert workshops organised by OHCHR, in 2011, and adopted by experts in Rabat, Morocco on 5 October 2012. READ FULL […]
Source: Morocco World News: Rabat- Morocco expressed understanding, on Monday, of the refusal of Saudi Arabia to sit on the UN Security Council, said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. More:
By Nora P. Goodman Morocco World News Portland, Oregon, April 13, 2013 He came from Morocco to the USA on the Lottery in 2011. He had only been here three […]
JEDDAH: MOHANNAD SHARAWI ARABNEWS Tuesday 4 June 2013 We have heard of cases of girls being blackmailed through social media or other cyber networks. However, there has been little discussion […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 17 May 2013 Shamsuddin Mohammed, “Ibn Battuta”, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24, […]
STORY SUMMARY In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, “Jewishness” and “Arabness” are often positioned as mutually exclusive; Morocco seems to exemplify important ways of reconciling these identities. Jews have […]
By Al Arabiya The first Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold medal could be the first female to break men’s long-standing in heading the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for 2013, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nawal al-Moutawakel, who is IOC’s vice-president, became the first Moroccan, African, Arab, Muslim woman to […]
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
THE ECONOMIST, Beirut. A MOB attacked Alexander Aan even before an Indonesian court in June jailed him for two and a half years for “inciting religious hatred”. His crime was to write “God does not exist” on a Facebook group he had founded for atheists in Minang, a province of […]
By NBC News staff and wire services Morocco barred Dutch abortion rights activists Thursday from docking their campaign ship to spread awareness about safe abortion methods in a Muslim country […]
CASABLANCA: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah received members of the board of directors of King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue here yesterday. “King Abdullah […]
Eight Islamic Sects Meet in Saudi, But Can They Make Amends? Leaders of Islamic countries pose during the official photo taking session of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Mecca August 14, 2012. Leaders of Muslim countries are expected to suspend Syria’s membership of the OIC at a […]
King Abdullah’s Islamic unity vision lauded Faheem Al-Hamid and Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Faal Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Islamic unity vision of King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and his initiative to convene the Islamic solidarity summit in Makkah this week has come for all-round praise from Arab and Muslim […]
Source: Eurasia review August 7, 2012 By Hassan Benmehdi Morocco is becoming a trailblazer in the Arab world in terms of countering extremist ideology and promoting “tolerance, respect and dialogue among religious groups”, according to a just-published report. In its latest study on religious freedoms around the world, the US […]