In the 1930s, the United States commissioned a sculptor to build a marble frieze for the Supreme Court that depicted 18 lawgivers. The list included Prophet Mohammed, whose sculpture was seen as controversial by the Muslim community in the United States.
Discussions about Islam and Muslims were part of the United States’ history since the the country’s founding. America’s Founding Fathers were the first to accept the religion and declare that they «have no enmity against it».
Nominated twice by President Donald Trump, the United States ambassador to Morocco David Fischer is still waiting for the Senate’s go-ahead to assume office. This delay makes the Kingdom the only Maghreb country that has not seen its US ambassador’s nomination confirmed.
Robert Purvis was one of the most committed American abolitionists in the nineteenth century. The activist drew strength from the story of his grandmother, a Moroccan woman who was enslaved and transported to the United States at the age of twelve.
In its 2018 Country Reports on terrorism, the US Department of State addressed the efforts made by Morocco to counter terrorism. Although the country has managed to mitigate threats it is still occasionally targeted by small independent terror cells.
The fall of former US National Security Advisor has apparently had an impact on the draft resolution that Washington submitted to the UN Security Council on the Sahara. But to Rabat, it is too soon to claim victory as South Africa is not willing to sit idly by.
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