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One of the symbols used by Satanists. |
RABAT – Students at a school in the Moroccan city of Qunaitara are engaging in satanic rituals that included desecration of the Noble Qur'an, school sources told IslamOnline.net Wednesday, February, 21, warning that Satanism was on the rise in the entire city.
"Last Wednesday, February 14, students in Taha Hussein secondary school said that they saw some of their classmates urinating on a copy of the Noble Qur'an inside the school," said the sources, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
"Most of the 13 well-off satanists are girls dressed in black and wearing necklaces with inverted crosses," they said.
People close to the Satanists say that they do not openly fast the holy month of Ramadan and listen to black metal.
"They communicate with other Satanists worldwide through the Internet and chat rooms," they said, also on condition of anonymity.
A school official, however, denied the people's counts in a phone conversation with IOL.
"These reports are no more than lies and rumors," he said with no further details.
Sources close to the powerful Justice and Development Party (JDP), however, told IOL that the phenomenon is picking up steam across Al-Qunaitara.
"It is a very dangerous phenomenon, I have to say," one unidentified source told IOL.
He said family plays a key role in protecting their vulnerable adolescents.
Satanists believes that Satan is the symbol of honesty for human. They practice strange rituals including wearing black clothes, tattoo, smoking drugs, throwing sexual orgies and listening to the black metal genre.
Satanists, usually, close their concerts with the ritual of slaughtering some patted animals such as cats and offer them as ablution to the "great Satan".
Family
Experts and sociologists heap the blame squarely on families.
"Those teens with their black clothes and inverted crosses have ostensibly become a phenomenon in Al-Qunaitara," Professor of Hadith and Islamic Thoughts Dr Hassan Al-Elmi told IOL.
Elmi was a member of a fact-finding committee that visited the school.
He called on families and educationalists to help protect future generations from that danger.
"This is a kind of rebellion against traditions by teenagers, who are making use of state-of-the-art communication technologies," Elmi said.
Sociologist Hassan Koronfol agreed.
"Families have to closely monitor the behavior of their children," he said.
"Moroccan society is paying the price of globalization and liberalization," he added.
He said everyday family burdens with parents struggling to make ends meet are leaving children vulnerable to moral aberration.
Two years ago, security forces in Casablanca busted a Satanist network led by an Egyptian youth.
Local media outlets had previously revealed that homosexuals and Satanists held a concert on the coast of the northern city of Asila.
Similar satanic cases have been revealed in the 1990s in the Arab world, particularly in Egypt and Lebanon.
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