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Yousfi Yassir is pursuing a Master’s in “Culture and Linguistics” at the university of Ibn Tofail. He holds a Bachelor degree in Linguistics from the University of Moulay Ismail in Meknes (2012) and a second one in Applied Linguistics & TEFL from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Rabat (2014). Yassir has conducted a research on “The Impact of On-Line Social Networking Sites on University Student’s Achievements.” [/symple_box]
Agourai, Morocco-Following the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, which left 12 dead, including the editor-in-chief of the said magazine and four other cartoonists, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared “a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, and solidarity.”
This event elicited a flood of commentary and prompted even the waging of war against the Islamic culture, as the “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West” group staunchly declared in its constitutional charter. From east to west, people from all wakes of life sympathized with the victims of this crime in social networks, especially given the media attention the “millennium march” received. On the other side of the coin, when Gaza was for 45 days under siege, assault and terror, in a genocide that resulted in two thousands deaths and more than ten thousand injured, it was not called terrorism by the West, even if most victims were women and children. The massacre in Gaza was unparalleled in terms of the number of deaths if compared to the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and sarcastically more journalists in Gaza during that war passed away in comparison to Charlie, but nobody named it terror.
This is only one of the numerous examples that show the real hypocrisy of the west, who keep bragging about democracy and human lives and how we should strive to adopt their values, but it is only fancy talks covering blatant disrespect to democracy and human lives. Though Israel has been killing Palestinians for many years now, we have never heard of any official government in this very west calling the spade a spade and referring to them as “terrorist acts” or “crimes against humanity.” In the utmost case, they call it “violence”.
If they were really sincere about human rights, then Netanyahu, who was the first to attend the Paris hypocrite march, should have been expelled, or at the very least been told in secret that he is a Persona non grata. Isn’t the war he was leading on Gaza the most horrendous form of terrorism? Of course, it is. The west is cherry picking when it comes to terrorist attacks, authorizing and legitimizing some forms of it, while staunchly condemning other forms.
It is commonly believed that the history of France is full of ethnic cleansing and crimes and today it is leading a hostility of hatred against the Muslim people. It has also been involved in many atrocities against African Muslims in Central Africa. This goes without saying that it is involved in supporting the ongoing civil war in Mali, mainly to ensure its benefits from the uranium share the said country has to offer.
France, as other western countries, does not welcome Islamic beliefs and the spread of Islam in their country. Le Quai d’Orsay, a staunch ally of Tel Aviv, does not even accept that someone jokes of the holocaust. For that matter, it has set up a law of anti-Semitism to keep skeptics away from the hidden truth. Even more, it rejected a thorough investigation on the attacks of Charlie Hebdo. The country in question along with the west had planned to occupy the Palestinian land and displace its population for the sake of ensuring the survival of Israel.
In 2013, Paris and other western countries have been involved in supporting the military coup in Egypt and conspired to cripple the Arab revolutions, including perverting the course of democracy in Yemen, Syria, and Libya in a bet to segregate the Islamic movements. This goes without saying that in 2011, France’s Foreign Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, asked the French parliament to send military help to Ben Ali to paralyze the democratic uprising. The Ben Ali administration offered a summer house in a Tunisian touristic resort against this service, an offer she, of course, accepted. Paris has no right to teach the south lessons of democracy and co-existence as long as it has been involved in all what has been cited. France has no right to do so simply because its civilization was established on the ethnic cleansing and stealing of other countries’ wealth. The Paris administration deliberately creates in an “underground” manner the conditions of hatred to disunite and keep dividing Muslim nations, with a purpose to install the French culture and identity.
Anyone with a mere sense of logic will quickly notice the outrageous crimes of Paris, especially in the Maghreb. It is a well-established fact that French colonizers slaughtered more than one million and a half during their colonization rule in Algeria. In Morocco, France slaughtered hundreds of thousands of my compatriots before we gained our independence. In his book called Chad (p17), the famous Syrian Islamic scholar Mahmoud Chakir said that France took 400 Islamic scholars and beheaded them in the era of occupying Chad in 1917. Who created terrorism now? Isn’t France the mother of Terrorism if we take into consideration its “great” records?
The late Mahdi Al-Mandjra was totally right when he claimed in his book “Valeurs des Valeurs” that “the real value of any human being in the world depends on to what extent we offer dignity to humans, no matter what religion s/he holds.” He also stressed that “when a foreign person is killed much fuss arise, but when thousands of Muslim people are tortured, killed, or slaughtered, nobody cares.
Edited by The Moroccan Times staff.
