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Morocco: more liberal law

Morocco’s High Religious Committee decreed earlier this year that individuals who leave Islam should not face the death penalty for apostasy.

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This astounding ruling from a body charged with issuing fatwas (an authoritative religious or juridical ruling), reverses the classical shari’a legislation that has stood since medieval times.