Morocco Trains 50 French Imams

TEHRAN (IQNA) - After recently training Imams in several African countries, Morocco will train fifty Imams from France.

 The trainings, which will cover the Quran and the life of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), will include supplementary lessons in science and information technology.

France plans to use these new Imams to promote an image of moderate Islam, and to fight extremism, Morocco World News reported.
France has drawn a framework plan to protect its mosques from extremism, after a recent increase of French young people joining the ISIL.