New Mosques Planned to Help Curb Radicals
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From Times Wire Reports
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI ordered the construction of 20 mosques in poor areas of large cities in a move to counter radical Islamic preaching at illegal mosques.
Twelve Islamic suicide bombers who killed 33 people in Casablanca last year came from shantytowns where, a government investigation charged, they had been brainwashed by radical clerics in makeshift mosques.
Hundreds of similar mosques have proliferated in cities across the North African country over the last 20 years.
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