Is it not time for some brothers in Algeria to return to their senses?
Is it not time for some brothers in Algeria to return to their senses?
I remember, at the end of 2014, I was in a scientific symposium in the Algerian city of Tiaret, and we were at a lunch attended by the President of the University there and many professors from Algeria, Syria and Egypt; We were in a discussion about the development that Morocco has witnessed in the last two decades, as many Algerian and Arab brothers in general expressed their astonishment at the progress Morocco has witnessed in many respects. However, one of the professors could not hide his anger and hatred, which may be a remnant of the military media propaganda known for its orientations and philosophy, through which it tries to continue the approach of the escape policy forward since the brotherly Algeria gained its independence. This professor, who claims to be a university researcher in economics, and in front of everyone's amazement, changes the direction of the debate, and begins to talk about the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, trying to link its benefits with Morocco's achievements in various fields, using the term Western Sahara.
Here, there is no room left for courtesy and appeasement; Whereas, as soon as I uttered the word “Western Sahara,” I mean Moroccan, I stood tall in front of everyone's amazement, and ordered him to withdraw the word “Western” or that I would withdraw from the lunch table; And since he stuck to his position, I went up to my hotel room, before many distinguished colleagues joined me, who expressed their dissatisfaction with their colleague's position, and told me that it was not the first time, because he had already created a problem for them with a professor from brotherly Tunisia, when he attributed the progress he had made. Tunisia introduced him at some point to prostitution and sex tourism.
Generally speaking, while I was seeing the posts of a public law professor from the sisterly state of Algeria these days, I remembered this cowardly attitude of this “professor”, and through him a group of questions came to mind; of between it:
What is the relationship of the Algerian brothers to a cause, which they assert on every official occasion, that they have nothing to do with it?
What is the reason for this prejudice for some academic institutions, with which we share a common history, the unity of language, religion, and jihad in order to expel the French colonialist?
Have they completed all the international topics and research, leaving only the first case for Moroccans?
Why are Moroccans not preoccupied with the concerns of the Algerian brothers, and some of the calls through which some Algerian sects aim to separate from the Algerian soil, whose cohesion we affirm is the cohesion of the Maghreb?
In the end, I say: Is it not time for these voices, which do not express the position of the free Algerian people, to return to their senses, and to overcome the wisdom of ignorance and fanaticism, which the bodies controlling the goods of our countries seek to make them a slogan and doctrine, to distract the citizen from demanding his legitimate and innate rights.
“Say: This is my way. I pray to God with the insight of me and those who follow me, Glory be to God, and I am not among the polytheists.”