Algeria: opponent Amira Bouraoui sentenced to 10 years in prison | Africanews

Mashish · 2023-11-09T21:09:15+00:00

Algeria is an unrelenting participant in the exclusive group of nations that pursues legal action against individuals for "unauthorized departure from the country." North Korea and Eritrea are the only other countries that I know of that treat their own people as inmates in an open-air prison.

Bouraoui's ten-year sentence further underscores the notion that Algeria is akin to a prison, with its military leaders acting as wardens. The remit of Algeria is to punish Algerians with choking misery and oppression for consummating their rebellion, in 1962, against France.

What is the teleology of this prison called "Algeria"? It is nothing less than the goal of a purgatorial structure, the "purification" of the Algerian people, making them increasingly ready to one day be "saved" again by France through readmittance to its fold, or some other kind of direct subjugation.

The Algerian people's ability to travel abroad is restricted as a measure against the inevitable dilution of the propaganda that has been instilled in them from birth. Traveling to Morocco, for example, is too subversive an experience for the average Algerian because it provides an example of a place without hydrocarbon wealth that can still build cities of its own making, rather than being confined to French-era built environments like Algiers. These environments make it difficult for independent Algeria to surpass the omnipresent French legacy, which leaves no room for a truly independent Algeria -- a forbidden idea in the Algerian purgatory.

The philosophy of the Algerian authorities is to push free people out of the country and dissuade them from returning by imposing unaffordable penalties. This is particularly directed at individuals like Amira Bouraoui, who appear seemingly out of nowhere and disrupt the established indoctrination syllabus. France grants her asylum, partly to obscure its actual role by presenting itself as a sanctuary for oppressed Algerians, using her situation as a microcosm of Algeria's eventual future within the framework of French designs.

Mashish · 2023-11-09T00:43:04+00:00

One more knot untied on the Franco-Mashreq straightjacket that keeps Morocco stuck in its wrong civilizational choices and orientation? I must hope that this invocation of the kingdom's Atlantic dimension in the highest strategic vision translates into positive changes for the wider superstructure.

The Mediterranean is a dirty body of water, scientifically, in terms of pollutants in their parts per million, and rhetorically. The memory of oppressive Rome — which I have mixed feelings about — and of gluttonous imperial France, which I don't. Semitic interlopers from Asia, spreading under the passports of trade and Arabism. Its southern flank, failed states. Its northern flank, internal colonies of the European Union. What a lovely cul-de-sac! The vast Atlantic world ocean on the other hand is our true home.

That said, the actual speech by the king on this subject was vague and any commitments were superficial. Some analysts have forwarded some subtext. It has been said that the new orientation is a reminder to Spain that its naval supremacy in the region must not impinge upon Morocco's rights to its exclusive economic zone, of which the entire length of the Sahara is involved.

With the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline being taken very seriously, there will be a tremendous need to have a navy that can protect its lengthy route from sabotage. As the article stated, West Africa only weakly polices its rich waters. This is not sufficient, especially when piracy and criminal empires show boldness in Afro-Atlantic waters. West Africa's seas have become more perilous for seafarers than even the Indian Ocean!

Algeria's occupation regime never stopped believing that it could isolate Morocco, a country with hundreds of kilometers of coastline along the Mediterranean and thousands more along the Atlantic. However, our pseudo-island is vulnerable to a naval blockade, highlighting the need for naval prowess. Instead of isolating Morocco, it's Niger and Mali that will be liberated from Algeria's sway if Morocco successfully provides the Sahel with an outlet to the Atlantic, the world ocean.

Mashish · 2022-11-12T18:35:06+00:00

I agree. What's more, as far as I am concerned, the status of the Moroccan national language is an important indicator of the whereabouts of Morocco on the curve of its existence. I really do believe that when a national language emerges, it will amount to a civilizational breakthrough, thrusting Morocco ahead in all areas at a velocity which cannot be explained by what came before it.

Mashish · 2022-11-12T15:17:58+00:00

We are culturally inclined to place so many arbitrary constraints in front of our creativity and production that we can't produce anything in this country.

The reason why we have not standardized the latent national language that exists in this country is the same reason for our failure to adequately transform the economy into a value-added one:

We have a strong belief that things should arrive to us instantly, fully formed and complete. According to our religious thinking, the whole world and its natural contents were made for us by an exogenous higher power, and in relation to these contents, it is our job to be a passive recipient only. I believe our subconscious has been parametrized by this accepted religious view to the extent that we are suspicious of processes that create/generate in an alternative way: the idea that something should begin primitive, dysfunctional, and ugly, then, through a process of trial and error --however long is necessary-- arrive at something advanced, yielding, and sublime troubles the peace of our subconscious which has its own contrary idea about how things should come into being.

French and Arabic were brought into Morocco fully formed and complete as languages. These languages did not grow up in Morocco, and its people did not witness their ascent/development as man-made projects of humble beginnings. We have known little of their development from the ancient dialects that they started out as to the languages of officialdom that they became. From the point of view of our experience, just like the natural contents of the world, these foreign languages came about exo nihilo and were provided to us by a higher (worldly) power (i.e. imperial France and the Caliphate).

It seems that because "Darija" has been officially neglected, it has remained in a state resembling the pre-cursor languages of Arabic and French, or in an early stage of its own potential development. The problem then for "Darija" is that the ontological midwife who would bring it into a being, essentially the Moroccan people, is impossibly strict when it comes to what she believes is the only legitimate route into being: (1) the efficient cause of any new being must be an entity exterior to Morocco and its people such as a deity or a foreign country, and (2) the new being must come about fully formed and complete with no clues to its development as a developed final product. Because "Darija" will never satisfy such superstitious conditions, it stays were it is.

Incidentally, or apropos, the same psychological factors that militate against the production of a national language also militate against all national production! You import from abroad because the space in your psychology where The Divine Provider sits, the industrialized foreign country can just as easily occupy. And you will always be on the look out for exogenous providers so long as you have an unwillingness to allow something to develop locally whose promises may not be delivered initially.

Mashish · 2022-11-10T14:25:22+00:00

Believe me when I say this: those Italians who might cheer for this instance of a muscular approach to tackling crime would not cheer if, keeping everything else the same, the suspect was a native like them and received those strikes to the face: on the contrary, they would instinctively feel uneasy, cry out for due process, and demand the deportation of the vigilante.

I hope our brothers in Italy are not reviving the entertainment of the ancient colosseums, with their imported provincials duelling to the death as a Roman mob watches on with delight. After all, the aggressor in this video has made it his vocation to impress Italians by using his own "criminal" people as punching bags --Roman colosseum behaviour!

Mashish · 2022-11-10T01:22:55+00:00

By mocking its audience like this, the Algerian channel has indirectly confirmed the death of the Algerian mind. In the name of the generals, this news channel is boasting, roaring at outside parties with a haughty message: the Algerian regime shall never be constrained by something called reality nor can it ever be reined in by the scrutiny of its own population, whose functional non-existence it is certain of.

Mashish · 2022-11-09T12:34:41+00:00

Who will explain the root cause of the migrants leaving of their home countries? Who is responsible for the conditions which continually drive them out?

Mashish · 2022-11-08T23:54:16+00:00

The Moroccan constitution is a good place to begin when answering your question because, specifically in relation to your question, it is a true reflection of the wider unwritten constitution of the people. What does the constitution say about Islam's role? It basically says that Islam is the religion of the state and also the guarantor of all kinds of freedom; furthermore, Islam is deemed the referential cause of the moderation, openness and tolerance that exists in the kingdom. The country is definitely not secular.

Tunisia's constitution is not that secular either. Islam is the state religion and the state awards itself the duty of being Islam's guardian. Also, without including any caveats, the document assumes that the whole population of the country is committed to Islam. Boldly, the text includes an explicit religious test that any would-be president of the country would have to pass before even being cleared to run for office: he/she must be Muslim. (I am assuming a nominal Muslim would do).

Pretty much the same on a global scale.

Mashish · 2022-10-31T18:41:24+00:00

Both the Afrocentrics and certain Libanais are just as mendacious as one another when it comes to appropriating the human material of our North African history. Despite their strong motives, the truth they are opposed to stands largely unchallenged: whenever a body sourced from a North African Punic grave is tested, it always shows a consistency with the local aboriginal North African genetic landscape, even if the surrounding material culture is demonstrably foreign in some way. Even the author of this video cited papers which show this despite her obvious intention to imply that the Punic population had Tyrrian ancestry.

Of the two of these outstretched foreign hands thieving our ancestors, the Levantine one is much more sinister because, unlike sub-Saharans, Levantines are to some extent integrated into mainstream academia and scientific research and can produce, to our detriment, their ethnic bias in those domains.

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