Word: abdessalam
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When her father, Imam Abdessalam Yassine, a respected Sufi cleric, made similar remarks during the reign of the last King, he was incarcerated in an insane asylum, and she concedes that political freedom has improved under Mohammed VI. Nadia Yassine also welcomes the fact that women are now allowed to conduct religious activities. "We need to restore a version of Islam that has less machismo," she says. After all, such efforts to bolster a gentler, more moderate form of Islam may stop Morocco turning into Iraq once Hollywood's cameras stop rolling...
...That is not to say that the way forward is simple. The PJD has to struggle for Islamic support against its Islamist competition, the Sufist-grounded Justice and Charity movement, whose leader, Abdessalam Yassine, refuses to recognize the monarchy's legitimacy and believes that the PJD props it up by participating in elections...
...King hasn't quite reconciled with Morocco's Muslim fundamentalists, but he is trying. He recently ordered the release of Sheik Abdessalam Yassine after 10 years of house arrest. Hassan II hounded the Islamist leader for years, even putting him in a mental hospital after Yassine wrote an open letter to the King denouncing his alleged unholy behavior. Mohammed VI acted, even though Yassine continues to question the King's religious authority...