Moroccan Lockdown Tensions Rise Over Loud Quran Recitations

Forced into confinement, the unusual facts and gestures of the neighbor become a cross to bear. Accustomed to listening to the reading of the Quran in their workplaces without being disturbed, some citizens are now forced to reduce the volume of their transistors to please a too capricious neighbor or one who is hosting a sick person in his home.

The rebels to the calls of the neighbors often see the authority agents come to their home to dissuade them. According to Hespress.com, a Caïd (authority agent) in the Oriental, near Oujda, was thus obliged to intervene with an elderly man so that he would lower the volume of his device during the reading of the Quran so as not to disturb his neighbors.

While some Internet users, relaying this information, think that it is a violation of the religious precepts on the part of the Caïd, others on the other hand believe that it is the application of the law.

As for Ahmed Assid, an Amazigh academic, Moroccans have a gap in the legal field, arguing that many abuses are considered legitimate while all issues are framed by law, including the call to prayer on which the Ministry of Islamic Affairs had published a note regulating the sound level.