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Morocco has begun requiring visas for visitors from Libya as a "security precaution," following the recent arrests of more than 105 Libyan visitors with fake passports; most of those arrested were not Arabs, and some had previously been banned from entering Morocco. The parliament is considering legislation that would criminalize takfir and incitement to violence, after Salafist imam Abdelhamid Abounaim issued a fatwa denouncing a politician as an "apostate" and his party as "infidels."