Zawaya

Terrorism is currently the biggest obstacle to full democracy. Actually, terrorism blames democracy for social perversion, and seeks to fight it by all means; that’s certainly what motivated the attack against the Café Argana in Marrakech. All forms of terrorism are scary and worrisome for peoples and governments, because they are like stabs in the back, we don’t know where and when we get them. If under the current circumstances, terrorism no longer scares people, it still scares governments, as evidenced by the cancellation of many reforms by the Algerian government due to the terrorist attacks the country suffered from for a long time. As for Morocco, it reached the point of no return, as expressed by both the government and the people. I agree with you on the need to adopt an effective security approach with a citizen security approach based on a broad participatory method, because citizens also have to be at the service of security, by facing all forms of terrorism, and protecting themselves and others from all temptations, obscurantist ideas and anything that might endanger the democratic process, which is the only possible option to eradicate all types of terrorist ideologies. Democracy must defend itself efficiently in order to be effective and sustainable; it’s the only way to eradicate terrorism, by laying the foundations for rights and freedoms.

We must say that terrorists have always feared freedom. That’s why they react when peoples are rethinking their destiny; and MOROCCO is an example of that. Nothing can stop the democratization process in Morocco today; it’s not a project of elites or leaders, but that of an entire society. We have to venture to tell the security services: well done, you’ve done a great job, and you saved us from the worst.

I personally believe that Morocco is struggling in a game of mixed cards, as we saw in the events of Marrakech and the conflicting accusations about their perpetrators, oscillating between the State and Islamic groups. Moreover, there are the increasing demands of the February 20 youth, and the objective of maintaining the monarchy as reflected in external measures, namely joining the GCC and benefiting from the petro-dollar policy in exchange for stability. All these events are due to a variety of reasons, the most important of which is seeking to maintain the monarchy and obscuring events, like the Marrakech bombing that was planned by secret soldiers, i.e. the Moroccan intelligence services.

It’s only thanks to the contribution and professionalism of French intelligence services that the perpetrators of the attack were arrested, not to mention the testimony of Dutch tourists.