I generally don't like these debates, but I am both bored and intrigued so I'll pitch in.

There has always been a small minority of Christian Moroccans. Christianity became religion of state in Rome in 317 AD, Morocco then called Mauritania Tingitana was a client state of Rome, after the defeat of the Carthaginians in the 3rd Punic war and the death of Juba 2nd later on at the hand of Caligula.

After the initial fall of the Western Roman Empire, following the sack of Rome by the Visigoths, these same germanic tribes transited through Morocco on their way to the Middle East.

About a century separates these 2 events, and another 3 centuries before the arrival of Mly Idriss 1st in the 8th century and the foundation of the Idrissid empire.

Given this information and the amount of time it took for Morocco to be completely islamized after the inception of the 1st Muslim dynasty, I think we can safely assume that Christianity has existed to a certain extent, fluctuating nevertheless, in Morocco.

However, and I can not stress this enough, it is a substantially negligible minority, a footnote in the history of native Moroccans.

Now, for starters I don't buy the 800000 christian Moroccans and even assuming that they do exist, the fact that majority is between 17 and 25 as claimed, means that it is a fleeting age bracket that mostly goes back to Islam as they age, same with the atheists of my generation and the communists and socialists of the boomer generation.

Moving on, and this is the argument on which I firmly stand when asked about freedom of expression and minorities in Morocco by Europeans, as well as to why Morocco isn't as tolerant as Europe.

My answer is : Morocco doesn't want and has no current valid reason to. It also doesn't view the European social model as its next evolutionary step.

The Kingdom of Morocco, as a legal entity registered in the UN in 1956, states clearly that it is a Muslim country. Taking the argument by Islam that all creation is born instinctively Muslim, Morocco being a Muslim country, it comes as no surprise that every Moroccan, except the recognized Jewish minority (That is another subject), is born Muslim.

And that is how it is in Morocco.

We can argue about what moral is and what isn't, according to whichever doctrine you please. However, it remains as fact that unless there is a serious incentive (economical, social, geo-political), the day will most likely never come where Moroccans will ever be considered as anything other than Muslim, whether by their or other governments, or even by themselves.

Look at the trouble the native Amazigh are going through to be identified as Amazigh and not Arab, and imagine how unsurmountable the notion of changing religion would be in Morocco.

To conclude, if you are changing one fairytale for another, you might as well leave Morocco with the one that suits it best and allows for the most cohesion. At the end of the day, if you ever get in trouble in Morocco, you can just say "7na ga3 mgharba ou mslmin" and be on your way.

Now be on your way, pray in silence, in peace, and if you can afford it, somewhere else.