WI/PC: Democratic Morocco?

Morocco was one of the first nations to recognize and be on friendly terms with the United States of America, and recently this has left me wondering what if any influence the American revolution could have had on the Sultunate.

To this end, I was wondering two things.

1-Is it plausible that the ideas of democracy/freedom and what not could have crossed over to Morocco and spurred either a revolution or a reform of their system?

and

2-What effect would there be if Morocco had become a democracy of some sort?
 
There would be no such influence. No part of the Muslim world looked to the Christian West as an example to emulate during this time. The Ottomans utilized some Western engineers for certain war industries, but that was all. It wasn't until Napoleon's invasion of Egypt that started the process of the Ottomans opening themselves to more Western influence in order to figure out why they were falling behind the Great Powers.

Muslim writers talking about the contemporary French Revolution had hard time understanding what exactly it was about. Their own cultural horizons were so limited that the demands of the revolutionaries didn't make sense except in the most vague sense.

American influence in Morocco only began with the arrival of American troops during Operation Torch in 1942 and continued American interest in the region because of the Cold War.

Morocco is one of the Muslim nations most advanced in developing its own democracy over the past several decades. Assuming trends continue, Morocco will probably be a constitutional monarchy with firm democratic traditions in a few more decades (along with Tunisia). Currently it is still in a transitional state from paternal autocracy. Any plausible POD would at best speed up that development.
 
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