Moroccan Islamist Leader Sparks Outrage, Calls Women’s Rights Activists "Perverted"

Has Ahmed Raïssouni chosen to fish in troubled waters? This is at least what the attitude of the President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars suggests.

Indeed, during a media outing, the one considered as one of the most influential ideologues of the Moroccan Islamist movement, according to Assabah, did not spare the women of the Collective of 490 "outlaws".

The daily mentions a chronicle by Ahmed Raïssouni who, apparently, wants to take on all those who have fought for the liberation of his niece. Entitled, "I am for individual freedoms", the chronicle in question is making a buzz on social networks.

The President of the MUR pours out his bile on these women who demonstrated publicly, calling for the repeal of the laws criminalizing the exercise of individual freedoms.

"Recently, we have seen certain perverted women waving banners declaring that they have had forbidden sexual relations and that they resort to abortion. This is what they have been taught, although apparently and unfortunately for them, they have not found the path of sex, whether in a lawful or unlawful framework," he hammers in the chronicle of which Assabah has a copy.

In plain language, the daily is surprised, instead of expressing his gratitude to these brave women, Ahmed Raïssouni preferred to "attack in a violent and unprecedented way the women and their movement that he tried to discredit by calling them perverted".

In his diatribes, Ahmed Raïssouni, also known as a former boss of the ideological arm of the PJD, states: "I am for individual freedoms, but these activists have been blinded on the paths of sacred sex, they have become crazy and their cries have risen only for dirty sex," observes, for its part, the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia.

Even more vehement, Ahmed Raïssouni claims that these defenders of individual freedoms "are limited to certain perverse practices and immoral acts such as fornication, homosexuality and adultery, or even public drunkenness or eating in public during the month of Ramadan".

On social networks, associative actors and human rights defenders have not been slow to raise their voices, bringing reactions to the size of the statements made by the President of the MUR, to condemn his unworthy attitude, concludes the same source.