Weighing Morocco's New Constitution

Middle East Research And Information Project:

2011 has been a year of unprecedented political tumult in Morocco. As neighboring North African regimes collapsed under the weight of popular pressure, demonstrators have convened in Moroccan cities as well, naming their uprising after the day of their largest initial gathering, February 20, and calling for greater democracy.

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Comments

[celticfireusa]

06:58 PM on 07/06/2011

Be carefully for ,what you wish for...Tourism is your life line ...

[BestGuest]

07:00 AM on 07/07/2011

Freedom is their right....

[stevechengmead]

11:51 AM on 07/06/2011

Yea for Arab spring, Yea for a new constitution:
-Women may not drive
-Women may not own anything
-If the husband accuses the woman of adultry, she gets stoned
-Homosexuals will be put to death
-Thieves will be put to death
-People of religions other than Islam will be put to death

[Erewhon7]

11:37 AM on 07/06/2011

The less relationship said constitution has to Shariah, the more beneficial it'll be for Morocco.

[rcballi46]

11:27 AM on 07/06/2011

What a concept ... the people of Moracco get to vote on their own Constitution in a national referendum. And the US, we still go by a Constitution that was put together by a bunch of white men, in 1787 - who were property owners ( of real estate and in some cases people), at the State and Federal level, with no direct input from 99.9% of the folks: non-propertied whites, women, minorities, who would be affected for generations to come! Our Constitution has become a cash-cow for lawyers, judges, politicians, et al. No, I'm not moving to Moracco, or anywhere else - but we should demand a Consitutional Convention be called to reclaim our country and to allow input from all US citizens and the new Constitution be approved (or disapproved) by a national referendum. If the people of Moracco can do it, so can we!