'Moroccans are watching ...': Morocco, the most open of Arab countries, may be reaching a
crossroad -- with a reform-minded king picking a counterproductive free-speech battle with a woman whose free-speech stance and support of democratic ideals are suspect. Caught in the middle: nervous Moroccan moderates. ... Morocco, the only Arab country I've visited, is special in my book. Moroccans I've talked to say they see the world differently than other Arabs, being closer to Spain and Europe than to Gaza and the West Bank. Their moderates are true moderates. ...