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Leader od Adl wa Ihsan Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine passed away
The official portal of the dissident Islamist movement Justice and Charity announced the death this morning of its leader, Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine. The deceased died at the age of 84.
A funeral ceremony was be held last Friday, December 14 at the Rabat Assounna mosque after Friday prayers.
Abdessalam Yassine was born in 1928, he was an employee in National Education before moving to Islamic preaching.
He graduated in educational planning at an institute in Lebanon in 1956. In 1965 he joined the brotherhood Boudchichia in which he was introduced to Sufi Islam.
He moved from being a leading Islamist political thinker to creating the movement Justice and Charity in 1987, which turned immediately into a dissenting movement.
He wrote a letter with content highly critical of the late King Hassan II, after which he was put under house arrest at his home in Salt on 30 December 1989.
He remained there until 1999 when, after his enthronement, King Mohammed VI released him.
Abdessalam Yassine during his life, wrote numbers of books, dealing with almost all topics of political Islam, but also of Sharia and a bibliography of the Prophet Mohammad.