ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a study of the commission as a striking example of the marginalization of issues related to religious diversity within the official discourse of Morocco. The commission in fact approached the subject of diversity from almost every possible angle, with the notable exclusion of the religious perspective. In a region characterized by both internal and external conflicts, some researchers have proposed a Moroccan 'exception' that 'immunizes' the country against any kind of sociopolitical fragility. The main purpose of this commission was to address and strengthen the concept of 'civil society' in Morocco, which was defined in Article 12 of the 2011 Constitution. The commission displays an undeniable pattern of marginalizing, even silencing, and the issue of religious diversity in Morocco in its public debates and in official Moroccan discourse. The first difficulty that confronts any researcher in the question of religious diversity in Morocco is how to sketch a religious cartography of the country.
