By Jay Talbi,For centuries jews have been suffering from anti Semitism, Africans and Asians from racism, and Arabs from general xenophobia. I thought I had seen all kinds of bias until I witnessed with my own eyes a real self-hating Moroccan.Meet Simo, or shall we call him Mohammed. He is the manager of a nice Riad near Jamma lefnaa in Marrakech. According to the website http://www.riadvillaelarsa.com/, the place boasts a nice Moroccan atmosphere and décor, except that according to the manager, it doesn’t accept Moroccans.Yes, you have heard right, the riad, located in Morocco doesn’t accept Moroccans as guests. I found that out when I went to drop off two friends visiting from Belgium. Simo welcomed them and as they were checked in, told me without hesitation that he had recommended to the owner, who is Britsh, not to host Moroccans, and that this was their policy. Maybe it was the Quran verses on my pendant, or maybe the fact that I said “sallam alaykoum” that tipped him off, but I thought it was weird he was telling a Moroccan they would not be in a riad in their own country. I later concluded that he just wanted to preemtively prevent me from making reservations in the future.The following day, after I came back to pick up my friends for a nice dinner at one of Marrakech wonderful restaurants, Simo shocked me again by firmly telling my guests that they were not allowed to have Moroccans enter the place to meet them. Well, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Simo and I exchanged some nice words that culminated in him insulting my entire family and their ancestors.I usually don’t try to take things personally, but this one hit home. Like I said before I had seen, heard, and read about all kinds of hatred, but I had never seen a self-hating Moroccan exhibited as strongly as it did in this case.I call on all wafiners, both in the U.S and Belgium to do the following:- Write, or call the office and tourism and remind them that Moroccans still remain the largest contributors of hard currency to Morocco.- Write their consulate and their representatives and let them know that “el hagra” is a very very bad thing- Write the owners of the riad and remind them that they are guests in our wonderful country and hiring self hating Moroccans is bad for business. (Tel/Fax ; 01584 861 325 email: contact@riadvillaelarsa.com )Regards,//en.yabiladi.com/topics/self-hating-moroccan-marrakech-44-2292077-2292077.html#msg-2292077 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:03:48 +0200 Phorum 5.2.15