There’s that amazing Maragaret Atwood quote :
‘If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.”
Hey, Morocco’s national mental illness is paranoid schizophrenia, as well. It’s amazing how many bizarre mental contradictions this country has collected.
For instance …
I had islamic education in the chapel of my catholic primary school.
Alcotests aren’t used here because, of course, there’s no drunk driving ’cause we’re muslims ! We do not drink !
Said Catholic school was set in a street called Abou Hanifa (you know, the one muslim theologist who thought alcohol was legit).
We speak darija (moroccan arabic), but the official language is classical arabic (mastered by no one), and the business language is french (mastered by even less people).
Morocco’s supposedly a haven for jews, but all of them emigrated to Israel (except André Azoulay, but I’d be thrilled to ship THAT one to Israel. Or Antarctica. Or Groenland. Somewhere he can’t build new golfs in the middle of the freaking desert.).
Our constitution says that it guarantees freedom of religion to everybody, just before saying that all moroccans are muslims.
We’re a “constitutional monarchy” with “freedom of speech”, and every time someone says something about the royal family, the guy gets thrown in jail (like the blogger who impersonated the King’s brother on facebook ).
We’ve got hammams, and supposedly, Gays Do Not Exist. The imams and my grandma said so. Why, I’d like someone to tell me how public baths are so popular, if us queers aren’t there ?
“Firmly established in tradition and looking at the future”, indeed, Hassan II.
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