by GRETA RIEMERSMA and MARTIJN VAN TOL
Every day, the conservative newspaper Attajdid prints a new fatwa. Fatwas are nothing more than religious proclamations. Nevertheless, they irritate liberal Muslims because, in their eyes, each fatwa is more absurd than the last. For instance, the Wahhabist mufti Al-Maghraoui claimed, in a different publication, that 9-year-old girls are allowed to marry, because “some girls of nine are better in bed than women of 20 and over”. Fatwas often contradict one another and there are also foreign fatwas, which find their way into Morocco via the internet and Arabic TV channels.
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