As promised I'm opening this post so that we can discuss the Amazigh question in Morocco calmly if possible.As my alias shows, I am amazigh, Soussi to be exact, as I said in the previous post I deplore the fact that the Amazigh history has been obliterated from the history books in Morocco. Recently I took an interest in the matter, I've combed the web to try to find some information of who we were before the Arab invasion, I wanted also to know how our language was like before the muslim era. The amazigh language is full of arabic words, but how did we speak before that...etc, my research was a mere historical curiosity. I found next to nothing. The very few information I found was from jewish imazighen who kept some records of what life was like, their interactions with other tribes and so on. Officially, it's like there was nothing. As I said in another post, it reminded me of the arrogant sentence in european history books : "Christopher Colombus discovered America", really ?! So there was nothing there before ? the natives were part of the local fauna ?Skip forward to present days, I would like to see Amazigh culture and language more present in our education system, I would like to see one day the King give a speech in Amazigh, that's the least he can do. My aunt used to have her daughter sitting next to her when the king gave a speech, she revered the monarchy but couldn't understand a word he was saying, shouldn't a king be adressing his people in a language they can understand ? My remarks are just common sense, there is nothing vindictive in what I'm saying.However, I do not share the berberist vision, but for pragmatic reasons, I'm Soussi we always look at the bottom line :I live in Belgium where I can see first hand how regionalist demands can ruin a country's economy. In Belgium, there's an old feud between Flemish and Walloons, the Flemish have been despised, their culture treated with contempt, economically they were weak, the monarchy was always francophone. In the last 30 years, the table has turned, Vlaanderen (Flemish region) has become the country's economical powerhouse. So they started settling their scores with the rest of the country. They have managed in the last 15 years to break up every national institution and regionalize it, from education to the military. The last thing left is the social security system, but they began the dismantling 3/4 years ago, soon they will be nothing left but a separation of the country, since they don't share anything with the other regions except the monarchy but even the king has been the target of the Flemish press.We now have a federal gvt and three regional ones, we have the biggest concentration of ministers in the world, since you need 4 ministers of everything. The budget negociations are a haggling circus, the country is deep in debt, if it wasn't for the european institutions on Brussels soil, it would be bankrupt.Now apply that to our country. It would be untenable. So as a Soussi, I look at the bottom line, we can not afford to sink into regionalist squabbling. But the monarchy better start taking the Amazigh question seriously, otherwise the more it's delayed the more the berberist will get impatient and turn this into a political sine qua non. Do not forget one important thing, Imazighen weigh heavy, and I mean really heavy in our economy, if this question gets too hot and some populist manages to unite them, we'll become Belgium.Lastly, another reason I do not share the berberist vision : our country is subjected these past few years to an islamist pressure, this is by far the biggest threat I see, it requires of the Moroccans to stay united, not to get distracted by regionalist demands. If we don't keep our eyes on the ball, the beards will use that to swoop in. I watched a documentary a few days ago on the genesis of the civil war in Algeria, it described with testimonies from former FIS and GIA members, the way they infiltrated the algerian society. I imagined for one moment the possibility of that scenario in our country, I felt a sense of panic.I want better recognition of our culture and language but not at the price of handing out our country to those savages.To finish my thought, I'd say we are a multicultural society, let's recognize all of them, contempt breeds rancour, if I'm asked by an outsider what I am, I say I'm a Moroccan, that's all he/she needs to know, we don't air our dirty laundry.//en.yabiladi.com/topics/amazigh-question-44-1303681-1303681.html#msg-1303681 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:02:38 +0200 Phorum 5.2.15