Talk Morocco

Maroc Mama shares her experience as a Muslim convert and talks about the impact politics may have on the freedom to explore, engage, discuss and learn independently about one’s own faith.

What role should the state have in defining Islam in Morocco, or should this be a matter left entirely to individual conscience? What about Moroccans who don’t consider themselves Muslim, or who want to be free to interpret their faith in a unique way? What civil right protections are needed, and how would we get there? Should religion and belief ever be a matter for the state?

The state, any state, should be for all people of all religious persuasions, and the state should never bear the imprimatur of any one religious ideology, says Mustapha Ajbaili.

Zouhair proposes a radical set of measures that he thinks, if implemented, would ensure state neutrality in matters of religious nature through a constitution reform.

Hind says Morocco can not be compared to Western countries, because each country has its own cultural and historical singularities. Everything can not change overnight, but everything changes with time she explains.

Despite many aspects of tolerance and coexistence in the Moroccan society, Kacem calls for more freedoms, especially in terms of freedom of thought and religion.