Among these repentant extremists who benefited from royal amnesty, ten women were received on Wednesday at Mohammed VI Foundation for the Reinsertion of Prisoners. The reconciliation program was jointly launched in 2017 by Morocco’s Prison administration, the Islamic scholars Association (Rabita Mohammedia des Oulema) and the National Human Rights Council (CNDH). The program aims to rehabilitate the jihadists inside prisons through a threefold approach including reconciliation with the Self, with religious texts, and with society. This means renouncing violence, accepting pluralistic interpretations of religious texts…Under the deradicalization program, the salafi extremists are separated from the general prison population to prevent Jihadists from indoctrinating inmates. Many of the former salafist militants and leaders have changed their extremist views and they are now living their normal socio-professional life.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 06, 2020 17:48 UTC