I am a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew and a Buddhist too. If you don't like it, then this place is not for you, but as long as you don't force your beliefs on anyone, you're welcome to join in, it doesn't matter if you're a liberal, a republican or just simply you.
"Grilled Fish is a fictional novel based on actual facts. It portrays the
lives of a group of young men growing up in Casablanca, Morocco, during the
seventies. The story is told through the eye of Saed, a teenager who, like his
peers, had to deal with the harsh reality of the Moroccan society..."
I'd like to add that yes, "Grilled
Fish" does portray the lives of a group of young Moroccan men during the 70s Casablanca, but I think it's a timeless story that also gives you a
deeper understanding for what drives Moroccan wannabe immigrants who sometimes would do anything,
including risk their lives to cross over to Europe, hoping for a better
existence. And it also puts the spotlight on so many more who won't even dare make
the attempt, simply because they're paralyzed by a draconian system that rules
lives.
Incidentally, Abel is my very first online friend, from when I first joined the
Internet in 1999...I was deeply honored when he asked me to write the foreword
for "Grilled Fish".
The Police department in Gelderland-South is currently conducting an
experiment, where different interrogation techniques are being applied to
Moroccan suspects, in order to make them cooperate with authorities and make
them confess faster.
With this new technique, a suspect gets picked up from his jail cell by
someone in casual dress, who then takes him for interrogation to a detective
dressed in suit and tie.
The Detective doesn't get his own coffee, but has it brought to him.
Ooh fancy schmanzy!
With little tricks like this, the authorities hope to command more respect
and induce a smoother interrogation process.
Apparently Moroccans are generally so hardheaded, they're a tough nut to
crack.
Yep, better believe it because the University of Groningen says so.
Yea yea I know it's not good to hate, but I would hate to be Geert Wilders,
especially right now.
As the momentum keeps building for the upcoming Dutch elections in June, poor thing is constantly finding himself under brutal attack in the media like never
before.
A couple of days ago Wilders was accused of hatemongering and compared to
genocide perpetrator Radovan Karadzic on a televised program in Holland. Of course he's none too happy about this. This
was shortly after one of his prime party candidates withdrew his candidacy
(claiming medical reasons), after he came under fire for a prior arrest for gun
possession at a public rally in 2008.
Also recently, another one of his party candidates was forced to resign
on grounds of submitting a fraudulent resume. And then again, yet another one
of his party candidates was mysteriously scraped of the candidate list just
yesterday, without formal explanation.
In another recent headline: Geert Wilders' June court date, where he was
expected to face the judge for being accused of hate speech, has been moved up
till October of this year.
If that wasn't enough, rumors are now making the rounds regarding the
reasons Geert Wilders likes to dye his hair blond and pick on Muslims and
immigrants.
Supposedly his former school mates are now saying that he suffered a lot of
verbal racial abuse as a youngster, for being dark skinned in a predominantly
white neighborhood. Supposedly he was called the "N word" a lot and the abuse was
so intense that he eventually was forced to drop out of high school. Of course at this point this is all
hear-say, I suspect these rumors originate on this blog here.
Geert Wilders was born to an Indonesian Mother, but his father's ancestry is somewhat vague. According to Wikipedia, "Wilders speculates that his
father may have had some Jewish ancestry".
Anyway, Wilders' hatemongering campaign against Muslims and immigrants is
to be expected by now, it's what his entire repertoire is basically built on as a professional provocateur,
but his foolish attacks on the Dutch Queen, who serves as the backbone of Dutch
government, will obviously get him nowhere. Wilders says that Royalty should be
made irrelevant. He wants to see an end to the Queen's role in the government,
however symbolic, but he fails to understand that every time he takes a swing at
Dutch royalty, is like a stab at the heart of the Kingdom's tradition, culture and history and doesn't
sit well with the Dutch population at large.Make no
mistake, no matter how liberal Holland may be, there are certain
things that are integral to the collective Dutch identity, and Dutch
royalty is without a doubt one of
those things.
With that said, Geert Wilders' political career may be coming to an end real soon.
'When walking or standing outside on a windy day, the windmills turn. Small
individual power generating circuits transfer the rotational energy into usable
voltage. In this prototype, the power generated turns on white LEDs, but the
energy could be used to power mobile devices or stored for later use. '
She was merely doing her job educating the public and raising
awareness to combat the spread of AIDS, while working for an anti-AIDS
nonprofit organization in a country that has 25,000 recorded cases of
AIDS infected patients.
Now she's being harassed and threatened for causing embarrassment to
the Muslim community, after she was shown on French TV educating
Moroccan youth and prostitutes at an anti-Aids conference on how to
apply a subtle technique to use a condom, especially when a sex partner
refuses to use protection.
The spread of AIDS continues to be a global menace that affects us
all!
Milouda should be hailed as a brave and courageous woman for going
all out to raise awareness on a serious public threat and should NOT be
ostracized for doing her job.
Clearly her intentions are good and
not meant to cause harm or embarrassment to anyone.
Thank you for your attention to this critical matter.
I just translated the first half of the Dutch article I linked to above (starting
with the title), which I think is most relevant to Milouda's case.
Also...it is not clear from this article if Milouda was fired or simply
quit her job out of embarrassment or as a result of being threatened and
harassed.
.........
Little trick with a condom cost Moroccan woman her
career
RABAT - Milouda can be seen only briefly on the Internet. "But those ten
seconds, have ruined my entire career," she says. Milouda is a Moroccan woman
with a headscarf shown on a clip via Youtube, demonstrating how to put a condom
on a penis with your mouth . She is being threatened ever since.
Her aim was so praiseworthy. In the fight against AIDS, she wants to get
prostitutes and young, inexperienced girls acquainted with the condom. Milouda
worked at Doctors Without Borders for ten years she says on Tuesday on the
Moroccan newspaper Akhbar Alyoum, and since 2007 she is working for the ALCS, a
Moroccan anti-AIDS organization.
In late March the ALCS organized a conference on HIV and AIDS in
Casablanca. In response, the French news agency AFP made a movie about HIV and
AIDS in Morocco, which was broadcast on French television. Afterwards, the clip
ended up on Youtube.
It's a neat movie. Himmich Hakima, president of the ALCS, explains that
in Morocco around 25 thousand people are HIV positive. An HIV patient says that
no one dares to talk about her illness and we hear that condoms are not popular
in Morocco.
The movie also shows what ALCS does in terms of AIDS prevention. One of
the actions is a weekly briefing for prostitutes - and the camera zooms in on
the educator, a woman with a black head scarf in the back with a condom. That
woman is Milouda.
Milouda explains how a prostitute can handle customers who do not want the
condom. "If the customer does not want to, tell him that you have something
new," says Milouda. "He will enjoy it." Milouda then crumpled the condom in her
mouth and let it slide down on one of the colored fake penises in front of her
on the table.
[I think this is the part that's most telling]
Morocco's conservative Islamic party PJD said it was a disgrace. Sex
education, fine, but this woman went into too much detail. She didn't need to
say how men like to be satisfied. Even chief editor Rachid Niny of Al Massae,
who is known as enlightened, thought this was a no no. The combination scarf and
condoms, that was what most critics found repugnant.
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