The Spanish newspaper El Confidencial highlighted Morocco’s role in promoting a moderate, balanced form of Islam to support peace and security across Africa.
In an article entitled “The Power of Religious Diplomacy”, the newspaper highlighted Morocco’s efforts to structure and institutionalize its religious cooperation with countries on the African continent, notably through the training of imams, the construction of mosques and the support for African Muslim communities.
These efforts reflect Morocco’s willingness to consolidate the spiritual security of Muslims in Africa, to counter extremist ideologies, and to strengthen its religious and spiritual ties with many of the continent’s countries, he explained.
In this context, El Confidencial particularly cast light on the role of the Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams and the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulemas, created in 2015, which is now active in 48 countries across the continent.
These institutions are pillars of Moroccan “religious diplomacy”, aimed at promoting a tolerant Islam in line with the Malikite rite, and strengthening religious cooperation between Morocco and the rest of the continent, it maintained.
The newspaper also emphasized the role of King Mohammed VI, Commander of the faithful, in this dynamic, pointing out that the Sovereign has multiplied his trips to Africa since 2014.
These visits were often marked by the renovation or construction of mosques and the distribution of thousands of copies of the Holy Quran, printed by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Edition of the Holy Quran.