The Supreme Council of Religious Scholars in Morocco, al-Majlis al-ʿilmī al-aʿlā is a governmental institution of Moroccan clerics which is attached to the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs. This Council is chaired by King Mohammed VI (by virtue of his status as commander of the faithful); it was created in 1981 to offer fatwas on various religious issues, and is thus the equivalent of Dār al-Iftāʾ in Egypt;1 its function is to produce a Moroccan Islamic discourse and compete with religious discourses imported from the Middle East. In 2012, the Council issued a fatwa that considered those who renounce the religion of Islam to be infidels and the punishment for apostasy must be imposed on them, which is to be put to death.2 This fatwa was produced amidst polemics about activities by Christian Protestant missionaries from various nationalities in Morocco.3 This fatwa has sparked debate in Morocco and beyond about religious freedom in the country. Under enormous pressure, the Council issued in 2017 a modified fatwa on the subject according to which an apostate should not be put to death because there is no scriptural reference that defines precisely the punishment, except in a political context that may make the apostate trait or to the community.4 And thus, the Council reinterpreted ridda, apostasy as khiyāna ʿuẓmā, high treason.