The above-discussed debates on the moral authority of the state and public decency illustrate the difficulty that states in Muslim contexts/communities face to justify their authority of État moralisateur (the moralising state) as put by the French scholar of public law Cédric Groulier.1 Groulier argues that the modern state went through transformation, increasingly acting in the capacity of “a teacher” to society: either by seeking to promote moral values, or at least to guide towards an order of values considered to be virtuous, or by condemning certain behaviours judged to be immoral or contrary to the dominant values in society.2 Groulier et al. also identified several manifestations of the moralising state in political discourses and actions, on a national and international scale, including the domain of law, as represented in courts, health care, humanitarian work, taxes and bioethics, comprising cases from Muslim contexts such as Tunisia and Bosnia. Furthermore, Groulier et al. underlined a plethora of motivations behind this tendency of the state to interfere in public morality, from interest groups to moralization as a means of reasserting itself or compensating for its loss of influence, or even protecting itself.3