To counter extremism, King Mohammed VI has set up a training center for Imams, Murshideen and Murshidat (male and female preachers) to spread the true values of Islam, said Monday the Irish Times. The center, opened in 2015, is housing 1,200 live-in students from Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa and France. This is part of a wide-ranging strategy by Morocco and its king to counter extremism through an array of “soft” initiatives. A Moroccan national investigation bureau, set up in 2015, has made about 600 arrests and dismantled about 40 cells. But it is Morocco’s king Mohammed VI, “Commander of the Faithful”, whom many credit with controlling the extremist threat, stressed the Irish newspaper.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 17, 2017 15:56 UTC