Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine has died.
Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine, leader of the Islamist movement Justice and Charity died at dawn today, Thursday, December 13, 2012
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Sheikh-Abdessal...
The official portal of the dissident Islamist movement Justice and Charity announced the death this morning of its leader, Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine.
The deceased died at the age of 84.
A funeral ceremony will be held tomorrow, Friday, December 14 at the Rabat Assounna mosque after Friday prayers.
Abdessalam Yassine was born in 1928, he was an employee in National Education before moving to Islamic preaching.
He graduated in educational planning at an institute in Lebanon in 1956.
In 1965 he joined the brotherhood Boudchichia in which he was introduced to Sufi Islam.
He moved from being a leading Islamist political thinker to creating the movement Justice and Charity in 1987, which turned immediately into a dissenting movement.
He wrote a letter with content highly critical of the late King Hassan II, after which he was put under house arrest at his home in Salt on 30 December 1989.
He remained there until 1999 when, after his enthronement, King Mohammed VI released him.
Abdessalam Yassine nevertheless kept voicing strong criticism of the monarchy in 2006, he shared with his disciples, he had dreams that in 2006 there would be a huge popular revolution which would be put into motion in Morocco, but it was not to be.
Some members of his movement, including his daughter Nadia Yassine, spoke out openly for the establishment of an Islamic republic in Morocco.
On 20 February 2011, on the occasion of the outbreak of the Moroccan version of the Arab Spring, Justice and Charity joined the youth movement who called for political reforms in Morocco.
Abdessalam Yassine during his life, wrote numbers of books, dealing with almost all topics of political Islam, but also of Sharia and a bibliography of the Prophet Mohammad.
The deceased died at the age of 84.
A funeral ceremony will be held tomorrow, Friday, December 14 at the Rabat Assounna mosque after Friday prayers.
Abdessalam Yassine was born in 1928, he was an employee in National Education before moving to Islamic preaching.
He graduated in educational planning at an institute in Lebanon in 1956.
In 1965 he joined the brotherhood Boudchichia in which he was introduced to Sufi Islam.
He moved from being a leading Islamist political thinker to creating the movement Justice and Charity in 1987, which turned immediately into a dissenting movement.
He wrote a letter with content highly critical of the late King Hassan II, after which he was put under house arrest at his home in Salt on 30 December 1989.
He remained there until 1999 when, after his enthronement, King Mohammed VI released him.
Abdessalam Yassine nevertheless kept voicing strong criticism of the monarchy in 2006, he shared with his disciples, he had dreams that in 2006 there would be a huge popular revolution which would be put into motion in Morocco, but it was not to be.
Some members of his movement, including his daughter Nadia Yassine, spoke out openly for the establishment of an Islamic republic in Morocco.
On 20 February 2011, on the occasion of the outbreak of the Moroccan version of the Arab Spring, Justice and Charity joined the youth movement who called for political reforms in Morocco.
Abdessalam Yassine during his life, wrote numbers of books, dealing with almost all topics of political Islam, but also of Sharia and a bibliography of the Prophet Mohammad.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Sheikh-Abdessal...