Abdesslam Yassine
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Abdesslam Yassine is the leader of Moroccan Islamist organisation Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
(Justice and Charity). Yassine has been a teacher and a school inspector for the Ministry of Education, and since 1965 a member of one of the most famous Moroccan Sufi brotherhoods, the Boutchichiyya. Yassine reportedly fell out with the leadership of the brotherhood over its refusal to engage more directly in political matters, and founded his own organisation. Yassine was jailed in a mental asylum for three years for publishing an open letter to King Hassan II denouncing his rule as unIslamic. Following his release he was kept under house arrest for many years, before eventually being released in the early years of the rule of King Mohammed VI. Yassine has written many publications, the best known of which is probably L'Islam ou le Deluge (Islam or the Flood).
Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
Al Adl wal Ihsane is a Moroccan Islamist association, founded by Cheikh Abdesslam Yassine...
(Justice and Charity). Yassine has been a teacher and a school inspector for the Ministry of Education, and since 1965 a member of one of the most famous Moroccan Sufi brotherhoods, the Boutchichiyya. Yassine reportedly fell out with the leadership of the brotherhood over its refusal to engage more directly in political matters, and founded his own organisation. Yassine was jailed in a mental asylum for three years for publishing an open letter to King Hassan II denouncing his rule as unIslamic. Following his release he was kept under house arrest for many years, before eventually being released in the early years of the rule of King Mohammed VI. Yassine has written many publications, the best known of which is probably L'Islam ou le Deluge (Islam or the Flood).