Abdelkrim Motii ( ar, عبد الكريم المطيع; born 25 November 1935 in
Ben Ahmed) is the co-founder with Kamal Ibrahim of
Chabiba islamia
The ''Shabiba Islamiya'' (, ) was a violent and clandestine Moroccan extremist Islamist group founded in 1969 by Abdelkrim Motii and Kamal Ibrahim. Its goal was the establishment of an Islamic state in Morocco. The group was active until 1985, du ...
("Islamic Youth") in 1969.
After being accused of implication in the December 18, 1975, assassination of
Omar Benjelloun
Omar Benjelloun (1936, in Oujda – 18 December 1975, in Casablanca) was a Moroccan journalist, engineer, lawyer and trade union activist.
Biography
Omar Benjelloun was born in 1936 in Oujda. He comes from one of the most affluent families in Mor ...
a leftist leader and journalist, Motii fled to
Saudi Arabia where he was involved in the
1979 Grand Mosque seizure
The Grand Mosque seizure lasted from 20 November 1979 to 4 December 1979, when extremist militants in Saudi Arabia calling for the overthrow of the House of Saud besieged and took over Masjid al-Haram, the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest Islamic ...
in Mecca.
[Abdellatif El Azizi, Report au 2 avril du procès Abdelkrim Al Khatib contre Mohamed Ziane: ''Qui a tué Omar Benjelloun?''] He subsequently fled again to
Libya where he is believed to live now in exile. He has since adopted a much more moderate attitude and declared that he is ready to go back to Morocco if he is offered enough guarantees.
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Living people
Moroccan exiles
Moroccan Islamists
Moroccan politicians
Moroccan expatriates in Libya
1935 births
People from Ben Ahmed
Moroccan schoolteachers
20th-century Moroccan educators
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