No country is totally immune from extremism and as such every country should be very vigilante and device measures that will keep it a minimum and ‘harmless’.
Morocco has formed an anti-jihadist ‘FBI’, Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, which is charged with the task of collecting intelligence and at same time wage heavy war against any suspected Islamic extremists. The task force is backed up by trained imams who preach tolerance to the Moroccan people.
Over 130 terrorist cells have been dismantled, over 2700 suspects arrested and close to 300 plots thwarted.
Earlier in the week, the unit that has been labeled the Moroccan FBI announced the breaking apart a cell that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
Morocco has been to shield itself from most terror attacks seeing as it is a constant state of high alertness making it the most stable country in the Northern Africa region.
One of Morocco’s security strategies that were launched in 2008 was to train the imams to promote tolerant and non-violent form of Islam that is in line with the Maliki school of Sunni Islam. This project cost close to 20 million euros.
The trained imams train on the importance of security and stability in the people exercise of faith. The tolerant Islamic teachings imparted especially on the young Moroccans have helped shun a lot of attacks on Morocco.
Countries that are affected by Islamic extremists should take a page from the Morocco’s book in their fight against Islamism seeing as most of the multi-national Islamist groups get in their countries through already established jihadi terrorist cells.
