Islam and Democracy in Morocco. The Integration or the Decline of Political Islam? - International Reports
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Islam and Democracy in Morocco. The Integration or the Decline of Political Islam?
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Thomas Schiller
For quite some time now, Morocco's political class has been anxious to steer an ambitious course of modernizing and opening the country. While the economy and the infrastructure are being reformed, political continuity is maintained. Political Islam appears to have no foothold in this part of northwest Africa. Although Islamist movements do exist, they appear surprisingly moderate. Is political Islam in decline? Can modernisation and identity preservation go hand in hand after all?