Minister of Justice, Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi has stated that “our respect for human rights culture as Muslims should not be done at the expense of our cultural and religious peculiarities and values.”
Minister Ouahbi has considered, in his statement made during the fifth South program organized by the EU and Europe council on Monday, March 13, 2023 in Lisbon that the West’s attempt to impose human rights culture with its Western conditions on the South stir many sensibilities and total rejection of that human culture inside our societies characterized by religious and humanitarian values different from those of the West vision of human rights in its absolute concept.
Minister Ouahbi has informed conference attendees that the concept of family is sacred in our religion and cultural values “and we want the West to respect that concept and should not impose on us its new family concept as a culture of freedoms and rights that should be followed, stressing the necessity for the West to believe in the right to religious and intellectual difference between our values and respect of any other culture and nobody should negate the other one.”
Minister Ouahbi has called those countries for dialogue and set up rules and resolutions by sharing process, taking into consideration respect for peculiarities of other societies’ culture and values; therefore some sides should review their positions regarding human rights and avoid impose them in their absolute form on Islamic societies.
Minister Ouahbi has expressed his concerns about human rights conflict be transformed from a conflict of values and ideas into a political conflict or into a conflict of civilizations as it is occurring in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Minister Ouahbi has pointed out in the same context that the Moroccan Kingdom is undertaking many reforms in different fields especially in women’s and child’s rights under the wise leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.