Far-right politician Geert Wilders has canceled his prophet Mohammed cartoon contest after receiving death threats. In the Netherlands, a Moroccan Imam was criticized for defending Wilders, stating that «freedom of speech is more important than an insulting cartoon».
U.S. President Donald Trump has issued warning to other countries willing to vote for the Moroccan bid. Trump’s tweet comes as some FIFA officials said Morocco should be allowed to reach the final vote.
The Polisario Front has sent last week its forces to the Guerguerate buffer zone interrupting the peace that was established in the area since April 2017 and accusing Morocco of violating the cease-fire agreement reached in September 1991. To understand the circumstance of the current crisis, Yabiladi interviewed Bachir al-Dakhil, one of the founders of the separatist movement, who stressed that the eruption of an armed conflict in the buffer zone is rather excluded.