Doing some research on the Berbers (Moors) of North Africa and why they are in the predicament they are in now in Morocco and Mauretania. It was because of two factors, Salafist nationalist reformists movements in the 1950s is the first. These sentiment goes back to racist scholars like Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) who founded the curse of Ham myth which stated that the Moors in the Maghreb were there because they fled their faces in shame after being cursed with black visages. The growing suppression of the Moors began with the relying of these texts in the 19th century by Moslem extremists who created their own interpretations of the Koran of Mohammed and helped to isolate people that they called Berberine which became apart of this wicked practice of scientific racism which these extremist declared that if you do not speak Arabic, but spoke the Berber dialect and practiced Berber culture were not true Moslems and they became ridiculed and isolated. Secondly, you had the French come in claiming to be saviors which caused these Moors to be further isolated under the doctrine of divide and conquer. The Moslem reductionism caused a Kabyle poet named Quasi Udifella Nait Sidi Braham (1898-1950) to declare There was no need to speak Arabic to be a good Moslem. He would write a poem that reads: These are the words of a Kabyle Who has not finished (speaking) Each day he says more He loves what is good He is no saint but desires to leave clear signs [...] The bright moon has risen Lighting Algeria You who know, understand what I say [...] The science of the age has arrived That opens the eyes of men Who seeks for their origins About the history of the ansar You should ask those who know And about the time of hijra Such a cryptic poem deserves a Moorish Scientist to decipher. Peace. #moorishscience
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 03:55:54 +0000
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