Earlier this week, two Muslim scholars’ associations slammed the Mohammed VI Institute for the training of Imams for hosting a performance that included a call to prayer and church songs. A similar show was staged in 2016 and in 2012 without being criticized.
In the seveteenth century, sultan Moulay Ismail grouped Christian slaves in Meknes to build him a palace that would outshine «Louis XIV’s at Versailles». Trying to escape hard labor, these slaves paid smugglers to flee the powerful Alaouite sultan.
In a report on the two round-table talks that brought Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario together in Geneva, the Un Secretary-General referred to «the lack of trust on all sides». To Antonio Guterres, building trust between the parties involved in the conflict would lead to a solution.