Meknes suicide bomber
Great, I’m gone from Morocco for less than two weeks and someone tries to blow himself up in Place Hedim (the center of Meknes) - and yet, he failed and didn’t even manage to kill himself. Just like a Moroccan suicide bomber.
Also, there was a minor earthquake, but no one was harmed in that either.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:38 am
thank god they are so incompetent!
August 14th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Everything is shaking in Morocco. The soil, Political scene, media and people. I’d love to know what went on in this guy’s mind carrying a butane container to detonate himself. Good thing everything is safe but the suicidal ideology amongst Moroccan youth is just shocking.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:50 am
They are so incompetent that they could not even get the message that Allah is not helping them to do harm to innocent people!
August 14th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Morocco being geographically exposed to all sort of ideologies and also to poverty and ,misery tends to be a victim of such acts. The country is moving ahead while a large majority of Moroccans are still pulled down under the poverty level. This feeling of frustration could create such acts/behaviors. However, the “incident” in Meknes tells us that we are no longer talking about illiterate and ignorant kamikazes from Sidi Moumen but we are now talking about educated Moroccan diaspora from abroad bringing their deadly ideas of “jihad” to the peaceful people of Morocco that have no desire tro join any sort of similar protest. Moroccans want make a living and move ahead. This behavior only hurts the people,the regime on the other hand,is stronger than it seems, and it will not be a handful of “wannabe” chahids that will shake it. Those are facts and they are undeniable…
August 14th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
yes…Freakin me out!
August 15th, 2007 at 7:52 am
I just heard! When are these idiots going to get through their thick skull that suicide attacks are not supported by Islam??
August 15th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
[…] blogger Myrtus asked, “Dannnng where the hell do they find these stupid people?” while The Morocco Report was a bit cynical: Great, I’m gone from Morocco for less than two weeks and someone tries to […]
August 20th, 2007 at 3:03 am
adil:
Peaceful Morocco?
How many Moroccans did the Moroccan government kill, torture and abuse? What about the victims of the State abuse in the Sahara against the Sahrawi?
Please stop repeating the Moroccan government propaganda.
You also said that Morocco is moving ahead. Could you please tell me where and who decides where the country should go?
As a Moroccan, I blame this growing social cancer in the country on the dual dictatorship, Palace and the elites, that is running 30 million people against their will.
Instead of condemning the organized violence and oppression committed by the state, you rant about some guy who lost his mind and decided that his life is no longer worth living.
More over, I don’t understand why you believe that this ideology is imported?
All the ingredients for feeding this ideology locally are present:
1- Authoritarian government
2- Widespread corruption at all levels including the justice system
3- Widespread police abuse
4- Government policy is at odds with the growing conservative values of the population.
5- Government alliance with the US government in its so-called “war on terror”. While not official, everyone knows where they stand.
6- We are not in the 70s or 80s anymore. The Moroccan government can no longer control and restrict the flow of information.
The best thing the Monarchy can do is to hand the people their right to govern themselves and take a step back.
thanks for reading.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Adil: how do you know that this man studied abroad?? some people who study abroad come up with other kind of ideas and other people who study in Islamic traditional schools may have quite different approach to this man (e.g. famous writer and sociologist Fatima Mernissi garduated from Al qarawiyyin). So, this has nothing to do with studying aborad or not, but rather the person and how vulnerable she to endoctrination or any kind of other ideas. I have read somewhere (probably in a book of F. Mernissi) that our science graduates and engineers lack of social science and humanities or philosophy courses in their education maybe. But, this is of course just one possible explanation. This person may have so many reasons to kill himself but to kill other other people that is hard for me to understand.