Morocco's Islamist Dilemma

USA Today 's November 23rd edition, has an article on the growing antagonism in Morocco, between the Government and moderate islamists.Being itself a target of terrorist attacks, and according to the newspaper, Morocco is facing a rising islamist challenge.

For USA Today, radical Islam represents a double threat to the Moroccan state - undermining the government's image of moderation and challenging its control over the faith.

Furthermore, the paper claims that the rise of Islamism in politics and Moroccan society will be a difficult test of the nation's proclaimed dedication to democratic reform something that led the author of the article not to neglect the fact that some believe Morocco is exploiting the terrorist threat to justify its increasing control of moderate Islamic parties, the same accusation that its neighboring countries, Algeria and Tunisia were not exempted from.