Maroon 299Moral Citizenship in Morocco’s Technogenic
Public Sphere
Bahíyyih Maroon
Allah gives us technology to help the people. If you make
something with what God gives you, then God gives another
thing to help people. Little by little it goes this way until tech-
nology grows up to be like it is now. Before the people couldn’t
believe that there’s an airplane flying and now look. What do
you have? You have people flying all the time every day. Same
with cars and other things. Now the people, they get used to
technological things. And it’s God who gives it.
Hajj ‘Abd el- Khabir, 2002
We must enable our country with the capacity to operate with
new technologies, which can be utilized in an optimal man-
ner to open up the vast possibilities of success that they offer.
This will assure our great people the capacity to develop and
to integrate with a global market, which will provide Maroc
with the means to occupy its place in a world that is being
transformed by the “digital revolution.”
King Mohammad VI,
public speech, 2002Over the last fifteen years, Morocco’s government has been steadily
attempting to reshape the Muslim African nation as an “information