Justice Minister: Individuals Freedoms Are Not Against Moroccan, Islamic Values
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- 24 Apr 2023
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Minister of Justice Abdellatif Ouahbi has renewed his commitment to implementing “individual freedoms” reforms, suggesting that such action does not clash with Morocco’s values and national interests.
Ouahbi made his remarks during a speech at the National Library themed “Individual Freedoms between Universal and National Values.”
Organized by the Center for Public Dialogue and Contemporary Studies, the meeting served as a platform for Ouahbi to renew his pledges to enact his reforms that many have deemed controversial over recent months.
“My goal is to prove that individual freedoms are a national interest that responds to the requirements of modernity and does not contradict Islamic value,” the justice minister said, stressing that Islam and modernity “share the same supreme values,” namely freedom, dignity, equality, justice, forgiveness, love, mercy, and love of wisdom, among others.
Citing the Quran, the minister said that many verses of the holy book prove that individual freedoms are in line with Islamic values. “Coercion is hated in the Quran,” he said, arguing that the prevailing authoritarian reading of Islam’s history should dictate neither the practice of Islam nor what should be considered Islamic values.
Many have criticized Ouahbi’s proposed reforms, especially his plans to decriminalize consensual extramarital sexual relations. Read More…
