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June 21, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060619-105710-1054r.htm

Fears of Armed Islamist Takeover in Morocco

(Washington Times) James Brandon - Police have arrested more than 500 Islamist activists since late May on accusations that they were planning a coup to replace Morocco's pro-U.S. monarchy with an Islamic state. Most were released swiftly, but the arrests revived fears that the country's largest Islamic movement, Al Adl wa al Ihsane, or Justice and Charity, is preparing to take up arms to fulfill predictions from the group's own Sufi mystics that Morocco's monarchy will fall this year. The group, which already has Islamized higher education in Morocco, wants to cut all political, cultural, and economic relations with the West.

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