Morocco's air carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM), is under attack by Islamic hackers who are targeting the carrier's website after it reportedly prohibited workers from praying within the company's premises during working hours and banned the veil for its female employees. Internet messages posted on Islamic fundamentalist websites called for an attack on the website of the airline. The messages follows a similar threat by extremist Islamic websites last week to hack into the website of the Vatican.
The message calling on all Islamist hackers to carry out a 'virtual jihad' said that "the unfaithful Moroccan airline has violated some precepts dictated by our Prophet banning the veil and prayers in the office."
It is uncertain how effective the attack has been, but when The View from Fez tried to access the RAM website, it was not functioning. However the company may have closed its servers in order to limit damage.
The hackers obviously don't keep up with the news because only last week, Moroccan transport minister Karim Ghellab denied media reports that the government has banned prayer time for employees with national air carrier but acknowledged that workers were asked not to pray in their offices. Ghellab however said they were allowed to go to the nearest mosque.
So far the only recent attack claimed by Islamic hackers carried out successfully occurred on 22 October, when a group calling itself 'Guard of Turkey and Islam' attacked from France the website of the Italian journalists' association and paralysed it.
The association says the hackers posted a message denouncing France's role in the "genocide of the Algerian population" and calling for a cyber war.
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