The article 3 of the Constitution stating “islam the State’s religion” violates the Moroccan citizen’s rights
According to the article 3 of the Constitution, “islam is the State’s religion”. This article therefore prevents any possible secularization of political life in Morocco, which means that any law that doesn’t conform to the islamic law couldn’t be adopted by the moroccan legislator.
Some of the consequences generated by this article:
- The impossibility within the State to separate the civil society from a religious one, which doesn’t adapt with conception of the democratic rules as known throughout the world.
- The individual freedoms, such as concubinage or drinking alcohol, are not guaranteed by the moroccan Constitution.
- According to the coranic rules, a woman can only inherit the half of what her brothers do, and therefore by law doesn’t enjoy the same rights as the man.
- Polygamy is still permitted in Morocco.
- According to this article of the Constitution, each citizen is considered a muslim, and is therefore not allowed to eat publicly during the fasting of Ramadan, to drink alcohol, or to convert to another religion.
- Even if a big majority of our representatives approve a law that contests this situation, this law would be rejected by the constitutional court, a situation which prevents any possible change.
- Christians are not permitted to evangelize in Morocco, and are not even allowed to distribute humanitarian aid in the name of their organizations.
- Moroccan authorities authorize without mercy the torture and slaughtering of millions of sheep in horrible conditions, during the sacrifices required by a religious celebration.
- An huge part of the moroccan State’s budget will be allocated to the ministry of islamic affairs, which increases the government’s expenses for reasons that don’t concern the social development of our country.
- Homosexuality is forbidden by the law.
- A testament that doesn’t conform to the coranic inheritage laws will be considered as invalid after the person’s death, which means that a Moroccan citizen is not allowed to bequeath his possessions according to his will.
- Marriage and divorce are entirely submitted to the coranic laws, and so there is no kind of civil or contractual marriage.
- Any European citizen wishing to marry a Moroccan woman must convert to islam in order to have his marriage recognized by the moroccan state.
- All new-born in Morocco has to be given an arabic or islamic name in order for his parents to register him in their district.
- It is strictly forbidden to doubt Muhammad’s prophecy or even to criticize Islam.
- Moroccan citizens that convert to another religion, such as Christianism, don’t have the right to build their own worshiping places, and are not allowed to gather into public associations.
- Each Moroccan after his death must be buried according to the islamic rituals and in a muslim cemetery.
- Any apostate who publicly denies his being muslim automatically loses his rights to heritage.
- All new-born from a non-married couple will be considered as a bastard by the State.
- Sex outside of marriage is forbidden by the law.
Islam being the only reference upon which the Code of Personal status is based in Morocco, we reject this situation because it contradicts the realization of a Civil State, where each citizen can choose for himself the matters of his private life. For this reason we ask for a secular constitution for our country, knowing that millions of muslims live under good conditions in secular countries.
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A word from Ghazi El Beji: Tunisian Atheist who’s sentenced to 7 years and a half of imprisonment
Ghazi El Beji Tunisian Atheist who's sentenced to 7 years and a half of imprisonment
A while ago I have spoken to Ghazi El Beji victim of Tunisian dark and theocratic government, I couldn’t hold back my tears when he was telling me his story. He told me how he swam across the Turkish boarder to get to Greece, and did not find anything to wear: he was naked like at his birth. He looked around him and found a corpse that the river threw on the shore. He had to take the dead man’s clothes ” the image of death for life”. He was now wearing the death-cloth of injustice and terrorism that cought him in his counrty and still are after him like an evil curse.
El Beji got residence in Greece for a month, but he is living with two Algerian young men in one room that lacks hygenic conditions, and all of them sleep on the floor.
After the end of his residence period, the Greek immigration department will have to ask him to leave, or emprison him for 6 months because of illegal immigration.
His flat mate smoke narcotics, which caused him a vision problem especially that he is asthma. He was also blackmailed by his flatmates after they have listened to his phone conversations with journalists after they have discovered he is escaping from Tunisia because of religion insults charges. He is now subject to blackmail and ultimatums: sometimes they would tell him that there is a Sudani terrorist that would not think twice before killing him if they tell him his story, and this morning they have asked him for 20 euros for their silence.
Ghazi’s Tunisian friends started avoiding talking to him. Even his best friend that was the “closest person in his life” turned against him according to Ghazi, who feels that the entire world turned hostile.
We have learned from Ghazi’s address that he lives in a neighberhood predominantly Salafi and Jihadi, and he is asking for immediate intervention from international Human Rights organizations to help him get a political refugee status that insures him personal safety.
I asked Ghazi to tell me what he feels after all of this: “Before the revolution,the system used to opress the religious extremist, but now they started oppressing the secular population, the thinkers, and the social intellectual elite, we made a revolution to free ourselves from oppression but now it’s gotten worse”
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The case and international Media:
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/05/205716.html
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE83501L20120406?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2012/04/05/97001-20120405FILWWW00860-tunisiecaricatures-7-ans-de-prison.php
http://www.jeuneafrique.com/actu/20120405T153117Z20120405T153115Z/tunisie-7-ans-de-prison-pour-avoir-publie-des-caricatures-du-prophete-sur-facebook.html
http://mediarabe.info/spip.php?breve4685
http://www.francetv.fr/info/tunisie-7-ans-de-prison-pour-avoir-publie-des-caricatures-de-mahomet-sur-facebook_80691.html
http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/tunisie-7-ans-de-prison-pour-avoir-publie-des-caricatures-du-prophete-sur-facebook-05-04-2012-1448797_23.php
http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuLocale_-Tunisie.-7-ans-de-prison-pour-avoir-publie-des-caricatures-de-Mahomet-sur-Facebook_6346-2063348-fils-tous–50502-abd_filDMA.Htm
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Tunisian Atheists sentenced to seven and a half years of prison
“Problems started since university times, when a student from my dorm decided to throw me out the window, if not for my friend Atef Khawaja, , who held him back in the last moment , and that is because of a debate we had about Islam.”
With these words, the Tunisian young man Ghazi El Beji started telling me his story with the religious oppression that transformed his life to a terrifying nightmare. It made him live his days followed by Tunisian police and a group of citizens that assigned themselves the duty of protecting religion.
Ghazi spoke to me after he and his friend (about whom I will talk later) were sentenced in absentee to seven and a half years of prison and a fiscal penalty of 1200 Tunisian Dinars, by a court in Mahdia.
Ghazi El Beji graduated from university in 2007, he did not find a degree appropriate job, so worked as a ticket agent in the coast metro in Tunis. During his work, his colleagues have discovered his atheism, and started harassing him and calling him anathema until the news spread around to everyone in the agency. His fellow ticket agent kept him from getting on the train unless he states that he is Muslim in front of everyone, so Ghazi did in order to be left alone, but that did not prevent him getting fired from work due to the numerous accusations of heresy.
Afterwards, Ghazi started working in the alimentary dough factory in Sousse, and he was busted eating during the day in Ramadan. His colleagues started asking why he wasn’t fasting, so he answered that he was sick and cannot , but they insisted on bothering him and the problems started growing and questions rising :”why don’t you pray? Why don’t you read the Quran?” Until he could not stand it anymore, so he told them that he does not believe in what they worship, and that he is free in what he thinks , but no one understood his position and Ghazi became everyone’s worry in the factory, and they named him “Abu Lahab”. Afterwards the matter reached the administration so they called him and made him state that he was Muslim, and asked him various questions such as “who is your God?”… He told them that he came to the factory to work and that religion was not related to the efforts he makes for the factory. Nevertheless, this statement did not help, but rather worsened the matter: everyone started hating and avoiding him. He was ejected by all, and the factory director was glancing at him with scorn, and giving him non-innocent illusions thinking that he was homosexual, as his colleagues asked him about his opinions concerning sex and homosexuality, so he was eventually fired regardless his good performance.
After the Tunisian revolution, in Mars 2012, Ghazi had an operation on his knee and spent 4 months in the bed: he used them to write a book he called “The Illusion of Islam” and published it on the internet thinking he was in a new era and that the internet will provide him with a margin of freedom, after the edition houses refused to print his book.
The book spread on the net and was read by thousands of people on the “script” site. One of his friends, Jaber El Majri, English professor , also an atheist, wrote a second book and cursed the government, Islamists, Prophet Mohamed, drew a pig sleeping on the Kaaba , and expressed his hatred towards Arabs and his love to Israel and its prime minister Natanyaho, expressing his anger because he is unemployed and exploited when employed.
El Majri sent his book to several people, and then a Tunisian lawyer named Fouad Sheikh Zaoueli filed a law-suit in the primary court of Mahdia against El Majri. He also was subject to physical violence from a person names Wael Nairi, and he reported to the police, but the police disregarded the attack.
On March 5th, the police arrested Jaber El Majri with his laptop, and asked him under torture about his friend El Beji who they heard has also written a book anti-Islam, but before he confessed, Ghazi went to the police to ask about the reason his friend was arrested, so the police shouted in his face that: “you also are an atheist!”. Ghazi said that being an atheist was irrelevant and that he came to ask why was his friend arrested.
On March 9th, Ghazi went to the court to check the file of his friend and he learned that he is also accused in it. He fled to Libya but found the Islamist everywhere and the country in chaos, so he went back to Tunisia, where his family told him that the police broke into his house looking for his computer, from which he removed the memory before escaping to Libya..
Ghazi’s fears grew, and he went to the Tunisian Coalition of Protection of Human Rights branch in Mahdia, and spoke to Mr. Mohamed Hamza, who advised him to run from Tunisia to Algeria before the court sends his arrest sentence.
In Algeria, Ghazi contacted the UN but instead of offering him humanitarian help to his freedom of religion, thought and expression case, they gave him grief for his atheism and a second meeting time for him to come back on March 25th, three weeks after his first visit.
Ghazi says that his aunt living in France, advised him to run to Europe through Turkey because she did not trust the Algerian regime, after she sent him 500 euros.
He traveled afterwards to Turkey and crossed the Greek boarders illegally and is receiving bad news about the Salafis. Ghazi El Beji lives now in Athena after he illegally crossed the river boarder between Turkey and Greece swimming and he almost died drowning.
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Open letter to the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland
German translation: here
Dear Muslims, members of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland:
My name is Kacem, and I suppose it’s a name you’re familiar with: Kacem is the son of the prophet Muhammad who died young. From that name, you might be led to think that I am Muslim, which is not totally wrong, because for many years I was indeed a Muslim, and I was raised in a Muslim family and society. I had a religious education and memorized a great deal of the Koran. I studied some Islamic history books and celebrated many Islamic feasts with my family and friends. And my current intellectual vocation and my openness to German literature, philosophy, and human sciences, is mainly thanks to them.
Not long ago, I was in an Islamic country, where the majority of the population is Muslim, your brothers in religion; they support you and wish you good luck and success in dealing with all the hardships that you have to face in Switzerland, whether with the institutions or the people, to achieve your demands in applying sharia, building mosques, and hitting your women. That majority unfortunately did not respect my rights as a member of a minority, and their lack of respect reached the point of trying to end my life, throwing stones at me, preventing me from going out of home, expelling me from school, defaming my image in the media, appealing in court against me, and many other things that I prefer to keep to myself out of respect for the reader.
I would have hoped they opened the path to discussion and communication with me, even if it was a small fraction of the way the Swiss government approaches you, in order to explain my position, and tell them that I’m not against Islam and Muslims specifically, and that I’m simply against extremism, fanaticism, and hatred, regardless of its origin or the ideology that harbors it. Unfortunately, they did not give me that chance, nor did they respect my right to difference and to life. Neither my Moroccan nationality that I inherited from my ancestors, nor anything else we share in terms of history and culture, were enough to stop them from sentencing me to death and rejection in all forms, simply because I expressed my views concerning Islam through writings I published on various websites. I was never against anyone, nor did I call for stoning, hand amputation, forcing women to dress in a particular way; I did not call for the murder of those who disagreed with me, nor for applying the death penalty on my opponents, who opposed my intellectual and political positions; I did not call for censorship of art and literature, nor for burning books, or issuing exotic fatwas. The only crime that I committed, was to express myself freely; I tried to be free in a non-free society; I defended human rights, and chose not to be a Muslim; I chose to be a human being, free from the shackles of religion, and to love other people following a sophisticated social contract, regardless of their religion, skin color, sex, or any other trait.
All doors were closed on my face at that time, and I died many times of a horrible nightmare, my life with Islam, until I found refuge and hope for a new life free of terrorism, in the geographical space that we share, Switzerland. Yet, with every new video I publish on youtube, watched by tens of thousands of people, and every article I put on my blog or on some online newspaper, comments from your brothers in Islam say “don’t be so happy, we Muslims exist everywhere”. One may consider this as a threat, but I don’t take it seriously because now I live in a democratic country where law is above everyone even if they’re not Swiss, and if someone attacks me then police and justice would give me my right, unlike those in Islamic countries where the perpetrator would be received with honor and hugs.
I heard that you intended to build a big mosque in Bern, that big contributions to that effect come from Saudi Arabia and other factions, and I wondered “ does the world really need more mosques now?”. Don’t you know that the Islamic world suffers from poverty and famine? Don’t you know that the dream of many Muslim youngsters now is to immigrate to Europe on deathly boats? Don’t you know that with such huge funds you can build schools in your original countries and free many villages of their complete isolation and marginalization? Don’t you know that your women need hospitals because many of them, pregnant, die before they arrive at a hospital to give birth? And what about Saudi Arabia? Aren’t they ashamed of themselves, those Golf princes with their petrodollars, when they come to Morocco for sexual tourism with tons of books, comprising not a single scientific magazine or any book of intellectual value, only copies of the Koran and religious books? That is, while Western countries support educational projects, found charities, and build schools and hospitals.
The reason why I wrote this letter originally, was that I supported you when I read on your website and your declarations to the press, that you were an oppressed minority, that you suffered from the persecution of the right wing, and the defamation of the media. I supported you because I was a minority in my Islamic country, even though the circumstances of my persecution were worse than what you pretend to be subject to from the Swiss people, because I’ve never heard a Swiss party call for your murder, for banning your reunions, or for cutting social aids on you simply because you don’t share the same beliefs and dreams. Permit a young man to ask these innocent questions, out of pure curiosity. I do not pretend to possess the truth, but I defend the portion of it that guarantees my happiness in this life: do you support me? Would you support minority rights to live with you as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, particularly article 18 related to freedom of belief and conscience? Do you have the courage to face the teachings of your own religion calling for my death as an apostate, and would you throw them in the dustbin?
These questions may not be of any importance to you, but they are indeed important and urgent, to anyone who’s following the current events worldwide, because we don’t know your political project. You may pretend to be a mere religious minority with no interest in politics other than protecting your own right to practice your religion freely; but I know that Islam is not only a belief system, it’s also a way of life, and not only does it concern itself with the relationship between God and humans, but it goes beyond, to the way people live and think, to their relationship with themselves and others. Your Koran is full of religious teachings considered as fundamental rules that a Muslim has to follow. Your brothers in Islam in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, until recently, were sending messages of reassurance to the world, saying that they were peaceful, that they would respect the law, and the principles of a secular state, and would not apply sharia. But as soon as they found their way to power after the elections, they changed their discourse, and started to call for sharia, knowing that it infringes on human rights and minority rights, like demanding death penalty for infidels and apostates in Tunisia, hindering secular teachers and intellectuals and preventing them from spreading their ideas. Your brothers were a plague on our revolution, and a damnation that fell upon the souls of the young people who gave their lives for freedom and democracy.
I do not want to see Switzerland deflect from its democratic path, and all that it acquired in terms of human rights through centuries of activism, nor do I accept to be labeled by anyone as a racist or a xenophobe. I too am a foreigner on this land, ethnically and culturally, but here I feel my value as a free human being, a value that has been destroyed by our people, with its religions, political parties, and dictators..
In the end, dear members of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland, I would like to say that I love you as fellow members of the human species, and I would like you to examine your thoughts more thoroughly and methodically. I offer you my friendship, based on mutual acceptance and respect. Live your lives, and let others live theirs as they want.
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Hamza Kashgari: Our right is yours
The day I created my e-blog on the net, I didn’t know I would sink in a borderless sea, a sea with no shores, no ports to be found… only waves, treasures and deeply sunk secrets.
I didn’t realize then I would enter a true war, using totally different weapons, not less dangerous than the ones used by soldiers in -deadly and all covered by blood- battle fields, neither knew I that because of my writings, I’ll be persecuted, threatened to death, expelled from school, and charged in court, then I’ll find myself obliged to spend the rest of my life in exile…
The internet technology, blogs, and social sites, have been a point that changed my life upside down, might be because I was wrong about internet being a free space for claiming and defending my rights, and writing down my own concerns or, those along with problems of my society, uncensored, or accused, or maybe I was too drugged with the power of the Holy Freedom, the only holiness that teaches us not to sanctify a thing, while gaining power and keeping all the sacred to itself…
We got used during the years, being forced to watch in standard mass media same subjects, same news, same TV programs, using the same language, and through the same old ideology. Many Moroccans had boycotted watching TV or buying national newspapers, which they think that don’t represent them in any way! Maybe the young are the most outraged to this reality than others… among these young people, there are many names that suffered and suffer unparallel persecution, because of their position concerning religion, politics or sex, but –these young people- are denied the right of speech and freedom of expression, because touching such matters as religion or politics –especially if your words are described as oppositionist and refusing- is prohibited, so you may easily get arrested, or even murdered and being confiscated your right to life.
You live in a society, to which you’re linked only by manifestation of fake culture, and you don’t feel any affiliation, often sitting with yourself and for hours alone you think, why am I here? In this very point standing, chained and can’t move? Why do I have to undergo the negativity of this reality instead of working to change it? Why don’t I make my first steps towards freedom since I am defending my cause based on universal human rights?
The questions repeated inside you, your feelings mixed, boiling in endless movement, you suffer and die thousands of times, without leaving this life, then you find only the keyboard, and the internet connection, you start a blog, or creating an account on facebook, and social networks, mostly with fake name, pseudonym so you postpone date of your end a little further. And you start your digital struggle, pushing the buttons strongly; an avalanche of sweeping anger becomes letters, then words, transforms into articles… with time your cause has audience… supporters and opponents. Comments fly, ones saluting, thanking and supporting your bravery, and very close, others insulting you, threatening, wishing you death…
This is the price to pay for freedom, and you expect every second, that police might break your door, arrest you then judge you as a criminal of opinion and free expression, or maybe some of your opponents –who read what you wrote once- would recognize you, blindly angry to your guts and your impolite thoughts, and he’ll harass you, then leave you laying down in the streets, like dry fruit skin…
Thus look like stories of all internet-activists living in dictatorial and theocratic countries… Syria, Morocco, Tunis, Egypt, Algeria, Iran or Saudi Arabia… However despite of all of this, they are not scared, and they think not of taking back their words, since the first day they signed commitment to internet, they swore that nothing will change the course of their love for the cause, the dream for democracy, nothing will affect these; no prisons, nor threats, nor any other practices.. Internet has given us the opportunity to fight using intellectual weapons, where facing every dictator in the world, together with their detention centers, armies, and all their tormentors.
Internet together with our kind obsession with freedom are all what we have as weapon, nevertheless these are lethal, dangerous weapons… prevent their eyes of sweet sleep and make them change their plans thousands of times against us, presuming that they can stop the wind of liberty from blowing stronger and stronger, and will of People are mightier… thank you internet, and thank you the spirit of the inventor, and those who contributed to its development. Thank you also facebook, twitter, youtube… shortly speaking, thank you very much technological progress and its father-thinker: Sciences
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An appeal to ban Sharia Law
Dear Secretary-General of the UN
We the undersigned, as Arab Atheists and agnostics, and the supporters of their basic human rights, based on article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have the right to declare our positions publicly without being subject to terrorism and calls for murder, issued by Islamic law (Sharia) against all former Muslims, and all critics of Islam.
This video is a passage from a conference that was aired on Aljazeera, where a Muslim cleric affirms that the punishment for apostasy in Islam is death and mutilation, and so we demand that the United Nations bans any application or support of Islamic law and all the elements in Islam that go against the basic rights mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sincerely
Monsieur le Secrétaire Général,
Nous, signataires de cette lettre, en se basant sur l’article 19 de la Déclaration Universelle des droits de l’Homme, insistons sur notre droit, en tant qu’athées et agnostiques arabes, à exprimer nos positions publiquement et à être reconnus. Ceci sans aucune menace sur nos vies, de celles que stipule la religion islamique, en toute intolérance, contre tous ceux qui ont quitté l’Islam ou ceux qui le critiquent.
Nous vous présentons cet extrait d’une conférence qui a été diffusée par la chaîne télévisée AlJazeera, où l’intervenant déclare que le châtiment de l’apostasie en Islam est la mort. Ainsi, nous demandons à ce que l’Organisation des Nations Unies émette une décision interdisant toute application ou support de la loi islamique, et tout élément de l’Islam qui va à l’encontre des droits de l’Homme comme stipulé dans la Déclaration Universelle des droits de l’Homme.
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The UAE arrests a secular activist for disrespecting religion
One should not start the day by browsing the Internet -especially if one is in contact with non religious and secular activists from the Middle East, who express their views and positions regarding the epidemic of religion, namely Islam, particularly when they do it publicly and openly on the Internet-, for one may receive painful news that would mar one’s clarity of mind, and drown it in a whirlpool of grief and sorrow for the rest of the day. This is what happened to me today when I woke up to the bad news of the arrest of one of my facebook atheist friends, who was accused of a weird crime: “disrespecting religion”. My friend Mahmoud Elsayed, holding the Egyptian nationality, was arrested three weeks earlier in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, where he lived and worked..
And according to reliable information from one of his family members, Mahmoud, known on facebook as Tony, may face up to five years of imprisonment in the UAE justice system. We still don’t have enough information about the whereabouts of his arrest, whether it was a complaint from someone, or that the police have been spying on his activities on the Internet, and then ordered the arrest. Would the legal and social situation in the Emirates allow him to defend himself and contact a lawyer who would take his case, where Islam is the claimant? Or do we have to ask for international lawyers from outside the Islamic world?
The Islamic world nowadays lives in a situation which is very much similar to the times of the inquisition when the opponents of the Church were beheaded. I consider the arrest of Tony as an abusive and unjust act that goes against the principles of human rights, and I beseech the international community, the UN, and non governmental organizations to intervene and protect secular activists in the Islamic world, and to put severe sanctions on any country that does not protect the right to freedom of belief, of opinion, and conscience.
I am very worried about the situation of Mahmoud Khaled, who was arrested for his opinions and beliefs, and I consider the authorities of the UAE fully responsible for anything that could happen to him or to his family or friends.
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Debate about Freedom and Religion.
From 20:48 you can watch my appearance on TV Alhurra 
The debate was about Freedom and Religion.
“Very Close”
Very Close highlights cultural figures and topics from throughout the Middle East. Host Joseph Issawi’s provocative questions provide viewers unique insights into the topics discussed. Al Hayat wrote of Issawi and Very Close, “His show became one of the most attractive shows to intellectuals, elites and ordinary viewers. Through this show, Issaoui knew how to trigger his audience’s curiosity without sacrificing objectivity.”
Muslim Migrants Want to Hide Behind a Veil !
Skin color, gender or belief cannot be a barrier to achieving integration within European or Western societies which are secular, democratic, multicultural and allow for a richness and diversity of races and backgrounds. Most of migrant communities within these societies have been able to melt into their host nations completely, adapt and grow without having to abandon their beliefs, languages, food or drink habits. Therefore they have been able to establish themselves within those societies and make important achievements. They were not barred from participating in politics and are involved in the decision-making processes. They have been allowed to assume high and sensitive responsibilities, something they probably wouldn’t have dreamed of in their countries of origin. They are athletes, artists, ministers and heads of parliaments, businessmen and academics.
Concerning the Moroccan and Muslim communities and the issue of integration, I think it is better to look at the arguments that irritate most European public opinions and that constantly try to depict Muslims as being persecuted and oppressed victims; -as a communist that does not enjoy individual freedoms, like the freedom to wear the burqa and other fashionable cloaks (probably to hide the bruises and wounds left by the husbands or brothers on the body of Muslim women). As long as they (Muslims) are the owners of the “absolute truth,” any encroachment that is susceptible to anger their one and only God may tomorrow lead to new demands asking for the closure of bars for example or for making kissing in public or making love unlawful, under the pretext that their beliefs, religious and moral senses have been hurt.
Despite all this, hostility directed against Muslim migrants is explained by things such as racism or xenophobia. We often forget (perhaps voluntarily) that the behavior and actions of these migrants are absolutely in opposition with the values of the host countries who paid heavy prices and long bloody years of struggle to consecrate human values and universal human rights and to ensure the continuity of the democratic system of governance.
One of these behaviors that are backward and the product of the Muslim migrant’s mindset are the activities of Islamist groups operating in many European countries such as France, Belgium and others. They are mostly active during election campaigns directing messages at all Muslims, urging them to boycott elections and ask for the Sharia Law to be implemented, considering that Europe’s democracy, which allows for the common citizen to run for the highest office for example, is blasphemous and contrary to the law of their Beautiful God.
Most of the Moroccan immigrants now settled abroad, did not migrate there initially for educational purposes and did not enroll directly into particular jobs. Most of them instead went there looking to sell hard labor for money and with little knowledge about the host countries’ language, belief, customs and traditions. They at best ended up cramped in huge neighborhoods with other migrants. They clung to a rigid lifestyle for years without integrating. They just kept answering their bodily desires while selling their labor. Their children do not seek to enter schools or if they do, drop out early, constituting a backlog for the work force. Some of them practice prostitution, theft and rioting. This serves as an incentive for parents to push their children towards religion, and therefore extremism and the rejection of the host country’s culture!
The Islamization of Europe is one of the problems that increases the size of hostility toward Moroccan and Muslim immigrants at large. It is such that we now hear and read on some websites belonging to the Arab community living in Europe terms like the “Islamic Republic of Europe,” and comments that announce the near death of the European civilization, citing the low birth rate among European families as opposed to the massive amount of Islamic migration into European nations! A number of ancient churches were transformed into mosques… How far will the patience of secular European citizens go?
Radical Islamic movements represent the true nature of Islam, given that they do not take into account the interests of any parties and rely instead on the interpretation of unambiguous religious texts from the Koran and the Sunna (the Prophet’s tradition). These movements do not act in the open and spread most of their messages through blogs and social networks, calling for a confrontation against other religions and beliefs and demanding the application of Sharia Law.
The demands of Muslims are incompatible with the European culture. These demands are based on an “absolute truth”. All those who differ shall be calledkaafir (infidels) upon which the divine retribution and the contempt of the whole community shall fall. God bestowed knowledge and light upon Muslims, therefore their religious specificity is supposed to be respected, even if it contradicts the most basic human right principles, such as the right to life and to difference, otherwise the Islamic sword is ready to answer the call of Allah!
This happens in Europe Nowdays:
English translation:
Allah make their children orphans … Amen! Allah, disperse their wives and make children being orphans Amen! Allah, let the glory of Islam everywhere! Allah, give glory to our oppressed brothers in Palestine!. … Allah Akbar … Allah Wo Akbar … there is no god but Allah. … and the Zionist is the enemy of Allah. There is no God but Allah and Shaheed (martyr) is the beloved of Allah.
