Digital extremism in Morocco. Challenges of religious security in time of networks

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:

Heba Press – Abdul Latif Baraka

At a time when digital transformation accelerates, a new danger that threatens the cohesion and stability of societies have emerged, which is digital extremism, which is the use of blue space to spread extremist ideas that fuel hatred, incentive to violence or the manipulation of religious concepts.

Morocco is considered one of the countries that attach particular importance to moderation and moderation in the religious field, it was not immune to this challenge.

A disturbing phenomenon in a new tone

Extremism is no long limited to mosques or closed meetings, but rasther moved to mobile phones and social media pages, where the proper religious content mixes with deviant ideas, and the minister of endowments and islamic affairs, ahmed al -tawfiq, confirmed on more one occasion, That This Type of Threats, Especially when Religious Values ​​are involved in it, and Stéssed that the minister interfers firmly Immondately After Discovering Any Extremist Tendency imams of mosques or preachers and preachers.

Digital religious transformation … A double edition sword

To confront this extremist digital tide, the minister of awqaf has strengthened its digital presence, through the production of more than 200 thousand Religious religious content on the internet, in addition to launching platforms such as “mohamed vi platform for hadith”, and activating official channels on social media Seeks to Provide A Moderate and Reliable Alternative to the Religious Content Spread in the Digital Space, but it rais questions about the extent of its effectiveness in influencing the youth category that is mainly young what is attracted by net and confused speech.

– Fatwa chaos and confusion on the reference

One of the most important problems of digital extremism lies in what the Minister called on success in the “Chaos de la Fatwa”, where unskilled individuals emit fatwas and misleading religious readings, taking advantage of the margin of freedom of expression and digital platforms, and in this context, the Minister confirms that the Supreme Scientific Council is the only party of Fatwa the call of citizens to be concerned with Fatwa.

Towards a complete strategy

The confrontation of digital extremism can not only take place by control or blocking, but also requires a complete strategy which combines awareness, solid religious education, improving confidence in religious institutions and the formation of imams and preachers to deal with digital platforms, as well as civil society and media remain a fundamental role in the exposure of extremist practices and lit.

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