Morocco: Schools Closing · Global Voices
Jillian C. York

The View from Fez reports that the Moroccan government plans to shut down 60 Qur'anic schools around the country, all of which are associated with Sheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al-Maghraoui, who earlier this month decreed that the marriage of nine-year-old girls was permissible.  His declaration is an affront to Morocco's 2004 Family Code, which set the age of marriage at 18 for both genders.