“Is the Quran always applicable?”
TelQuel, a Moroccan French-language weekly newsmagazine, has announced that its next issue, with a cover date of 6 February, will address a potentially volatile question: “The Quran: Is it really applicable ‘in all times and in all places’?” The cover article will specifically address such hot button topics as polygamy and jihad.
The article is due to be posted at its website today but, as of this writing, it is not yet available. [UPDATE: It's been posted.]
The magazine is no stranger to controversy.
TelQuel (which means “as is”) has come under fire numerous times in recent years for its controversial pieces. In 2005, Mohamed Bouhcini was targeted after acting as a guide for journalist Chadwane Bensalmia on a trip to the Rif mountains to research a story on drug trafficking. And publisher of TelQuel and it [sic] sister magazine Nichane (the only magazine published in Moroccan dialect) Ahmed Benchemsi was charged in 2007 for “failing to show due respect to the king” following an article that questioned the electoral process. And Nichane was nearly destroyed by a lawsuit later that year after editor Driss Ksikes and journalist Sana El-Aji produced an article focusing on Moroccan “street jokes,” including some which dealt with Islam and the king.
It remains to be seen whether the content of this latest article is as provocative as the cover.
h/t: Global Voices
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