In the name of all of mine, "No to slavery and black racism in the Arab world! -by Houssein IBRAHIM HOUMED

In the name of all of mine, I can not be silent in front of the banality of the evil always fashionable in the Arab countries! For centuries, blacks have become or treated as the damned of the earth! No human being can condone the persistence of such barbarism ... I observe, since the Libyan tragedy, that the executioners behave as if it were normal. The painful chapter of the deportation of Africans to the land of Islam is a genocide that has not yet ended! I must act, you must act, we must act!

The Arab world holds the palm of barbarism legalized in the slave trade. He decimated all Africa from the 7th to the 21st century. His ideology? "A canvas of fascinating and anachronistic axioms that boils down to the disheveled affirmation of tribal and religious values!

Radioscopy of the Maghreb, the breeding ground of racism and obscene negrophobia. The fact that "Men are born free and equal in dignity and rights" remains an apparently unrecognized postulate in the Arab world. Otherness is denied especially when the other is different! What hypocrisy! "Is not it paradoxical that these same North Africans who denounce racism against them in France and in Europe, practice it without a qualm in their countries of origin against blacks? exclaims Saadia Moshbah, President of the Mnemti Association Against Racism in Tunisia.

Algeria has 7000 slaves on the background of an assumed apartheid!

In Algeria, a country that was helped by Frantz Fanon for his independence, blacks are despised and reduced to slavery. We would count 7000 slaves! Racism is publicly assumed by Algerians. Burkinabe or Congolese nationals report their ordeal at a stopover. A directive of an administrative division (the directive of the wilaya of Mostaganem) even prohibited the transport of Africans by bus and taxi at the risk of a withdrawal of transport license. 20 years after the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, Algeria decrees it in full view of everyone!
"Being a black Muslim in Algeria is not a guarantee of security against racism," writes Kamel Daoud, winner of the Goncourt prize for the first novel in 2015 for "Meursault, contre-enquête".

Morocco among the 25 most racist states in the world

The Sherifian Kingdom is one of the 25 most racist states in the world. Racism, this hideous beast fed by ignorance is in vogue throughout the territory to the point of becoming an ordinary racism. Even so-called modern media assume this racism; This is how Maroc Hebdo magazine devoted its racist cover to the "black danger". Yesterday "yellow peril": expression borrowed from anti-Chinese racism that raged before in Europe! Do Moroccan journalists attempt a proxy vengeance on black African migrants with the vain aim of exorcising the contempt they were subjected to during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Western world?
The laxity and the angelism of the authorities only reinforce the aggressions and the victims have only to undergo injustice and arbitrariness. In the collective imagination of Moroccans, apparently sclerotic, even their own black compatriots are considered slaves or sons of slaves. They are considered second-class citizens.
Faced with this filthy Morocco, there is the other minority Morocco that we must not forget, that of Tahar Ben Jelloun who wants to debate racism, but it would be necessary beforehand that the basic education, that inculcated by the parents and that learned at school plays its full role: "Racism explained to my daughter" (Editions Seuil, 1998).

Tunisia, Nobel Prize for Racism!

In Tunisia, "Arab spring country", anti-black racism is a real scourge. To the point that she would win the Nobel Prize for Racism. Because of their skin color, the birth certificates of black people born in Djerba bear the mention of "freed slaves" denounced the association of defense of black Tunis. According to the Association of African Students in Tunisia (AESAT), two Congolese were slaughtered in the street and a boy stabbed. Many students have fled this country. It is impossible to make a complaint to the police authorities who are complicit in these crimes. The avatars of racism are marked, apart from ghettoisation, by the prohibition of mixing up to a pernicious form of apartheid in the transport of schoolchildren without mentioning the cries of birds. For Saadia Mosbah, president of the Tunisian M'nemty Association, "Racism is rooted in our societies. The Negro is for many a Negro, an inferior being ". Tunisians, she says, have not broken with their slavery mentality!
In Black Africa, many societies practiced slavery, but these societies, although less advanced in terms of education and knowledge, banned the day to day.

For a human being, there is a radical awareness of an abominable crime against one's own humanity! The Ethiopian State is a famous example.

Unfortunately, the Arab world, from the Arabian Peninsula to the Maghreb, seems to be suffering from an incurable trauma, unable to evolve in the field of human rights and to assume its own culture which has, however, contributed so much to the preservation and the circulation of universal knowledge.

Last news. The Tunisian Prime Minister has announced an urgent debate on a law against racism after the aggression of three Congolese in downtown Tunis. An announcement effect, no doubt!

Mauritania, the cradle of slavery and radical evil!

As for Mauritania, and in particular the Mauritanian state led by the Moors (or Beidanes), it would shelter more than 45,000 slaves. Under the veneer of Islamic values, the Moors kept intact their tribal and slave mentality. Although an article of the national constitution considers it a crime, "in Mauritania, traditional slavery still exists. Slavery where we can "sell, we can give" slaves, "where we can do what we want, we have the right to life and death over them," Ms. Fatimata Mbaye, Mauritanian lawyer. (See Declarations Biram Dah Abeid).
The persistence of this plague is difficult to explain to the extent that half of the population is composed of Haal-Poulars and Soninkés, black populations, in situation of denouncing this absolute evil! Mauritania itself shares borders with Senegal and Mali. Are these two Muslim states unable to exert friendly pressure on their Muslim neighbor?

The tragedy of blacks in Libya only confirms the xenophobic and medieval policies still alive in the great Arab Maghreb!

How to humanize this inhumanity? Much more than the criminalization of racist acts, the long-term action concerns the dissemination from childhood of the values ​​of equality and for that it would take a long time to change the software of the Arab world!

This change must begin with the Arab rulers (Kings, Emirs, Presidents) autocratic, undemocratic and obsessed by their cult of personality, a real scourge of humanity and source of all the misfortunes of the Arab world!

Houssein IBRAHIM HOUMED