Rabat – The board of Casablanca’s Ain Sebaa’s court has sentenced a 40-year-old woman to four years in prison and a fine of MAD 500 for desecrating copies of the holy Quran during a women’s prayer room in the “Lkhzama” mosque, located in the Casablanca neighborhood of Lissasfa last November.
The incident has sparked outrage among Lissasfa’s population, who protested against the woman’s act.
The mosque’s Imam, who caught the woman desecrating the Quran, and the women’s prayer room in complete disarray. Amid the mess, he found a copy of the Holy Quran covered with pieces of bread, urine and excrement.
Sources have told Moroccan media the Imam had been aware of a woman desecrating copies of the Quran in other mosques. It’s speculated that the woman in question would have obtained directions to the women’s section of the mosque. In this case, after the prayer was over, another female mosque-goer warned the Imam that the suspect was not in a normal state.
During the police investigation, the woman confessed that “she desecrated copies of holy Quran with menstrual blood due to her sterility and her deep need for children.”
Before arresting the suspect, the police found desecrated copies of the Quran in five mosques around the neighborhood. They subsequently stepped up their efforts to arrest the perpetrator of this “profane act,” according to Morocco’s Directorate of National Security (DGSN).
