U.S. Copts Association

The leader of the Al-Nahda w’Al-Fadila party, Abdellali Fedi, has attacked other parties and demanded that they prove their Islamist credentials.

With regard to his own party, Fedi told an election meeting in Casablanca that it was “using politics for the sake of the religion, instead of using religion for the sake of politics.”

The Al-Nahda w’Al-Fadila party was founded by dissenters from Morocco’s largest Islamist party, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), who were disappointed by its excessive focus on a social agenda at the expense of a religious agenda. It is the only party that is calling on clerics to run for parliament.

Source: Al-Sabah, Morocco, August 23, 2007