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| Nadia Yassine, 04-06-2006. |
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| 1/ How would you explain the arrest of several members of your movement? |
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| I think that the Makhzen is really disturbed by the series of "open day events" that we have organized in several cities of Morocco. The objective was to communicate by this means since we don’t have newspapers, and because a certain (uncertain would be the right word) national press seems to have set itself against our movement fiercely and unrelentingly, using the most abject defamatory statements. Having said this, I would say that we never act with a spirit of revenge, or react. Communication and transparency are part of our basic principles. It is in this spirit of transparency that we have made public our mystic dimension, namely by reasserting the value of the concept of "ru’ya" (mystic vision or dream). I’ll grant you that the complex nature of our approach disconcerts so many people. And I would say that the reaction of the regime has a double reason: |
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| 1°) A conceptual misunderstanding :I seriously think that the visions connected with 2006 really disturb the regime because they think that it is we who will cause subversive or violent events. The open day events are interpreted as the beginning of the “qawma”, a term we translate as an effort of reconstruction, of restructuring of our society starting from the human element (and which for us started long ago); a term which the regime persists in translating as a revolution in the classical sense of the word. A vision remains a vision, and if the Adlists are not more royalists than the king, the regime seems to have become more Adlist than the Adlists themselves. What a strange paradox! |
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| 2°) A mistaken anticipation:I suppose that there is also a certain agitation among the political parties, namely with regard to the 2007 elections and the premonitions-suggestions (American this time) that are based on statistics and that present the PJD as the winner. As our detractors would never take our word for it (our vision for it more, it seems!!!), they sniff out a sacred alliance in the air that would make of us the PJD’s hidden supporters, and fear an early and anticipated preparation of this so-called unprecedented transition. The geostrategic world is shaking beneath the feet of the Makhzen, and we are reported to be making an electoral campaign by proxy in favor of the PJD. The regime is then doing its utmost to contain ...visions and anticipate anticipations that do not exist, and alliances that exist only in their nightmares ...Sleep soundly Don Quixote!!! |
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| 2/ Can we talk about a real rise in tension between the Makhzen and AL Adl Wal Ihsan, or is it a chess game between the regime and you? |
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| You know, it’s dangerous to speak of a chess game with a regime that has become so sensitive to visions and that bones up the origin of words and concepts. And if they ever went further back to the origin of the word “checkmate” ( as-Shaykhu mat or the Shaykh is dead), I may be prosecuted again if I tell you, yes. I would be accused of fomenting a crime against some shaykh or mkadem . What I may say is that it is a mere rise in tension as I use a process of elimination, and evil be to him who evil thinks!!! |
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| 3/ Open day events of Al Adl Wal Ihsan, what for? And what are their short-term and medium-term objectives?
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| We began to organize open day events four years ago, and as I told you it is a means for communicating with the other. It is the same spirit that motivated us during the organization of the summer camps which the regime and a certain “very considerate” press called bombastically the “war of beaches”. Ridicule that never killed anyone, fortunately, continues and having won the “war of beaches” by forbidding any bearded man or woman wearing a headscarf to get to the beaches, the Makhzen now storms blithely into the open day events. As for the scope of our objectives, they are always of the long-term type. For it is not a matter of election agitation, but rather a matter of education and awakening of consciences. |
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| *Full text of Nadia Yassine’s answers to the questions of the “Journal-Hebdo”, Tuesday, 30 May, 2006. |
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