Month: May 2015

By Emma Batha CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls are “like a timebomb ready to explode and ruin the family’s reputation”, the Moroccan jewelry trader tells his customer as she admires a display of necklaces. Hannane is one of a new generation of female religious leaders, known as morchidat — part of a quiet social revolution in the North African country. The morchidat were introduced in 2006, partly in an attempt to counter Islamist radicalism following suicide bombings that rocked Casablanca in 2003.
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