Mois : mars 2010

  • Bad company

    A recent post of the moroccan press agency, MAP, reported on 25 Feb 2010 that britannic MP, Derek Conway told that moroccan autonomu plan is « a viable and serious proposal » that will help settle the Sahara issue.It’s important to highlight that the Derek Conway who proposed, two years ago, a deliberately deceptive Early Day Motion in the UK Parliament in favour of Morocco’s autonomy plan is the same Derek Conway that later faces fraud investigations after being sacked by his party for using public funds to “employ” family members.

    Mr Conway was suspended from the Commons for 10 days and ordered to return £13,161 of the money he paid his son. A Commons standards committee said there was no record of Freddie, a student, doing work at Westminster in return for £40,000 of taxpayers’ money. The committee report, which said Freddie was “all but invisible” at Westminster, concluded the arrangement was “at the least an improper use of parliamentary allowances” and “at worst, a serious diversion of public funds”.

    Police say they cannot investigate disgraced MP Derek Conway, even though he was reprimanded by Commons authorities for paying his student son nearly £40,000 to be a researcher. Scotland Yard said a “lack of systems” for accounting for MPs’ expenses meant it was ruling out an investigation.

    It is said that a man can be known by the company he keeps. When it comes to Conway and his buddies in Rabat, this dictum appears to work both ways.

    I don’t know if Conway’s relationship with the Moroccan government extends to financial remuneration – one wonders what motivated him to propose the EDM in favour of normalising Morocco’s occupation, if not some sort of financial reward. Perhaps he could have paid his sons in Dirhams and saved himself a lot of bother. He wouldn’t be the first foreign political figure to have been bought by the Moroccan state. After publishing a glowing analysis of the king’s fine new clothes (i.e. the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara), by ex US ambassador to Rabat Frederick Vreeland, the New York Times felt obliged to publish an Editor’s Note pointing out that Vreeland was chairman of a company that had contracts with the Moroccan government. I’m sure there will be many more such unmaskings as Morocco steps up its propaganda campaign with the help of its western stooges.

  • Bad company

    A recent post of the moroccan press agency, MAP, reported on 25 Feb 2010 that britannic MP, Derek Conway told that moroccan autonomu plan is « a viable and serious proposal » that will help settle the Sahara issue.It’s important to highlight that the Derek Conway who proposed, two years ago, a deliberately deceptive Early Day Motion in the UK Parliament in favour of Morocco’s autonomy plan is the same Derek Conway that later faces fraud investigations after being sacked by his party for using public funds to “employ” family members.

    Mr Conway was suspended from the Commons for 10 days and ordered to return £13,161 of the money he paid his son. A Commons standards committee said there was no record of Freddie, a student, doing work at Westminster in return for £40,000 of taxpayers’ money. The committee report, which said Freddie was “all but invisible” at Westminster, concluded the arrangement was “at the least an improper use of parliamentary allowances” and “at worst, a serious diversion of public funds”.

    Police say they cannot investigate disgraced MP Derek Conway, even though he was reprimanded by Commons authorities for paying his student son nearly £40,000 to be a researcher. Scotland Yard said a “lack of systems” for accounting for MPs’ expenses meant it was ruling out an investigation.

    It is said that a man can be known by the company he keeps. When it comes to Conway and his buddies in Rabat, this dictum appears to work both ways.

    I don’t know if Conway’s relationship with the Moroccan government extends to financial remuneration – one wonders what motivated him to propose the EDM in favour of normalising Morocco’s occupation, if not some sort of financial reward. Perhaps he could have paid his sons in Dirhams and saved himself a lot of bother. He wouldn’t be the first foreign political figure to have been bought by the Moroccan state. After publishing a glowing analysis of the king’s fine new clothes (i.e. the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara), by ex US ambassador to Rabat Frederick Vreeland, the New York Times felt obliged to publish an Editor’s Note pointing out that Vreeland was chairman of a company that had contracts with the Moroccan government. I’m sure there will be many more such unmaskings as Morocco steps up its propaganda campaign with the help of its western stooges.

  • Le Maroc des malédictions

    Un communiqué du ministère avait indiqué qu’une expertise urgente de toutes les anciennes mosquées avait été ordonnée par le roi Mohamed VI. Il faut reconnaître que les résultats ne se sont pas fait attendre.

    Une semaine après l’effondrement du minaret de la mosquée de Meknès, qui a causé 41 morts, une coupole d’une autre mosquée près de Nador se soldant de la mort d’un autre fidèle.

    Sur le premier incident, on a jeté la faute aux méchantes pluies qui en veulent à mort les Marocains. Sur le deuxième, c’est la confusion au sein des autorités de Rabat. Une première dépêche de la MAP indique que c’est à cause des « travaux effectués par des entrepreneurs non qualifiés ». Un communiqué du ministère de l’intérieur précise qu’il s’agissait de « travaux exécutés sans autorisation préalables des autorités ». Bref, on ne sait plus quoi dire aux pauvres citoyens.

    Les marocains, un peuple très superstitieux, y voient la main de Dieu. Au lieu de chercher la cause de leurs misères chez leurs dirigeants, ils les attribuent aux malédictions et au « mauvais sort ». La pauvreté et l’analphabétisation de la société marocaine ont fait qu’elle soit très attachée aux traditions et rites religieux. Ainsi, une grande partie fréquente les tombeaux et mausolées des  marabouts et saints pour guérir des maladies et beaucoup de farceurs se remplissent les poches en se faisant passer par des sorciers, apothicaires, voyants et vendeurs d’herbes médicinales.

     Selon un sondage fait par le magazine TEL QUEL, 9 sur 10 croient aux démons et au mauvais œil, 83 % approuvent le port du voile et 57 % désapprouvent la mixité sur les plages.

    Les islamistes profiteront des circonstances pour dire qu’il s’agit d’une prédilection et que des mauvais jours pour eux se préparent, qu’ils devraient en tenir compte et que c’est une punition de Dieu à cause de la corruption, la prostitution et la malversation.

    L’influence du discours religieux se trouve derrière le succès des partis islamistes au Maroc. La création du Parti PAM et son succès imposé dans les dernières élections a été une tentative de repousser la montée de cette menace.

    Le Roi Mohammed VI tente de remodeler le champ religieux pour imposer un islam modéré et tolérant empreint de soufisme. Il s’agit de réhabiliter le rite malékite en usage depuis des siècles dans le royaume mais mis à mal ces dernières années par la poussée du chiisme, du parti islamiste PJD et des associations caritatives tels que Justice et Bienfaisance. Cette dernière conteste l’autorité religieuse du roi.

    L’aspiration de Mohamed VI de donner une image d’un Maroc qui évolue vers une certaine modernité se heurte au traditionalisme de sa société, aux méfaits de l’Etat policier, la corruption, le chômage – terreau fertile de l’intégrisme –, la grande pauvreté, l’analphabétisme très important et l’existence endémique de bidonvilles. C’est cela sa vraie malédiction.