How else do you explain the false sense of entitlement that grips people who have PHD's?

I have Zero respect for anyone with a PHD... now if they have a PHD and know how to use it... with respect, integrity, etc... that is a different story!

I guess she meant PHD=Permanent Head Damaged ?
or PHD= Patiently Hoping for a Degree or maybe PHD=Probably headed for Divorce

Since they can not do the lifting by themselves I guess they are PHDs = Pretty Heavy Drinkers so they needed help.

Well, since they are moving to the area we should probably all move out. Georgia, would be a better place .

That is a pretty lame excuse to use her title to scam some fellow Moroccans. She could have at least bartered something if she didn't have any money at all. Plus even if she is a Ph D, if she has no money at all, she will have to do some heavy lifting to get things done. Had she been nicer, maybe she would have had people in her community helping her. Clearly she still has that mentality of "I studied 7+ years, then I am superior"....Sh e can't get away with it nowadays. In morocco it would work because she will have to do something in exchange for the service

I would ask her why can't she and her husband help with moving their on things. I would have to find out why is it she wants free help and she is not willing to help herself. I would be upfront and direct just as she is direct. If she is just lazy or think that she is too good to help with the moving, I would then hang up the phone.

Anyone with a sense of entitlement will use the biggest "bat" they think they possess to intimidate others into fee-sabyl-illah... on their behalf of course. Clearly, the only 'clout' this woman thought she had was a piece of paper. Maybe she should write "Help" on it, fold it up into a paper airplane and throw it out the window. She might get a better response. :D

Everyone who has posted negative comments about a woman calling and asking for help moving should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. What does Islam mean for you all? Do you fast during the day while also writing negative comments about an innocent request to have a community of Muslims and Moroccans help someone? Do you pray to God the Highest while thinking negatively about this woman? You all represent Moroccan and Muslims very well, indeed. Your comments appear to be nasty, evil, and hate-filled. But perhaps you are only acting the way you were raised. Who knows?

As a university teacher in Morocco, I can tell you: Over sixty percent of my students have totally unrealistic ideas about what a 'PhD' means; the sense of superiority (often completely undeserved, even when rewarded) gives them a bizarre feeling that somehow they are different than the common man. Most of the time, I am sad to say, the degrees which a Moroccan post-grad walks around with are like those fake genealogies that the phony "Sherifs" in the mountains carry around to prove their 'right' to your money and time.

Is this matter worth writing about? A lady asked for help and you cant and wont help her and what is it you do? write an article and waste our times. The time it took you to write this article you could of summon some people and give her a hand. Please Fi sabili lah spare us articles like these

A couple with a PHD should afford to compensate 3 helpful persons for their service. Let's stop the hypocrisy and forget fee-sabyl-illah ...whoever feels compassionate enough to help these Poor Human Douchbagz should step up and offer their help.
You help for the sake of God when you want to and not when asked of you

The lady must really have needed help. Instead of backing her up and offering the necessary support, the majority of you just snapped at her as if she was asking for the moon. Have you all asked yourselves if you knew the entire story, the curcumstances behind her call and the reasons why she called . This is unacceptable and I believe that you should understand the situation better.

The lady just wrote a long article and you are still being mean and nasty. Please set back a little bit. She is our sister. You should all help her and welcome her with open arms. Unfortunately I am not in DC; otherwise, I would have offered some help.

Salam to you all and shame on you.

How can you use swearing words to defend your view. I am addressing Moroccan Patriot and many others who dared to use street language to get their message through. Hchouma. You ought to burry your heads in the sand and ask for forgiveness.

This whole imbroglio is due to "cultural" difference.
Georgia and The Carolinas have a large Moroccan community that is affiliated with al-adl-wa-ilihs an., In other words "khwanjiyas".
When you are used to dealing in such milieu, it make sense to call complete stranger and say "i am a Muslim sister, i need three bearded fellows to help me move "fee sabyl illah".
Instead of calling the local mosque or her khwanjiya friends, she called MB and oversold her phd, her denials notwithstanding .

Nadia was completely wrong to have thought of calling Morocco Board for help. I live in the U.S and I have been disappointed at Moroccans. I will not request help from them. They turned me down on multiple occasions and I will not have anything to do with them. Welcome to America Nadia and you did well by hiring Americans to help you.

You should be very careful adressing situations like those. The woman called for help. You should have enquired about some facts before writing such an article. Apparently, she didn't do anything wrong. She simply needed some help. She didn't ask for food, money or shelter. In fact, I would have been more tha happy to help if I was the oe who answered the phone. I am ashamed of being a Moroccan.

Nadia hasn't done anything out of the ordinary. She merely wanted someone to help her and called the Moroccan community. Shame .

Chtaini said

Good for you Hamid. I really appreciated your words of wisdom. I decided to find out who this lady is and I did. She and her husband are wonderful people and far from all the hog wash that some commentators have freely subjected them to (S-Hab al Hassanat Wak Wak)I hope that when they come to Washington that you will get a chance to meet them. They are a positive addition to the community. I also hope that others will make sure to get to know them. It is a win win to know this couple. When I travel to DC on my way to Morocco, I will definitely make sure to meet them. Maybe we could visit them together. Happy Ramadan to Hamid and to everyone else.

For each story there are two sides, will be wise to hear her story before one should jump to any conclusion.
Dr. Chtaini would you please encourage her to tell us her version of this story!

I got! , I got it!
Folks here are not against lending a hand fi sabili lah to a Moroccan sister, they are against the fact that Dr. Nadia mentioned the fact that is a PhD educated. This may very well be interpreted as " I am educated and you are not, now do this for me now or else" and that's exactly what happened and that is exactly why we have pros and cons in this issue.
I wish Dr. Nadia would have known better that in the US we do not mentioned our degrees, we do not mentioned what we do unless we are asked.

Imagine an American would say " Hi my name is Sarah Olson, and I am calling to see if I can find few people to help me move some furniture to my apartment and by the way I am a PhD holder" I am sure that Dr. Nadia did not phrase it in this manner but I am sure that the guy she dealt with understood it as such.

I feel more for the husband because us being Muslims in the US is not pretty, like it or not, we are the most hated communities in this country.

After 9/11 an African American colleague of my Moroccan friend told him " Welcome to the front seat my friend, and trust me, you will remain in it for the rest of your life and thank you for doing us this big favor" The guy was right, We are now a community that Senators are bashing to advance in the polls, or get re/elected, we are a community that Moron priests use to get free publicity by burning the Koran in a public ceremony, we are the scape goals of ills, I am surprised we are not blamed for the tumbling of the economy.

I pity this lady simply because she has written a long article explaining her situation. How kind of her to have done so. I wouldn't do it at all. I would let you imagine things and make you say bad things to relieve my shoulder from sayyi'at and add more hassanat in this holy month. Shame on you all.

After I read the nasty comments, I threw up in the bathroom. You are all gay and not men. Sorry Nadia but you shouldn't have called moroccans. Nsara ahsan min al mouslimine

I am sorry that you had to go through this. Please forgive those ignorant and uneducated people who wrote and used swearing words. We can help you my wife and I and will be more than happy to assist you with lifting the furniture.

Is it illegitimate to request some help in the heat and during Ramadan. May be this person is so used to doing good that she expects the same from others? Who knows? Please God forgive all those snakes who said bad things during the month where the Qu'ran was revealed.

Oh my name is Nadia too but not the same Nadia. I read your article and I think that it is missing many things. I understand that you can't include the whole story in few lines but I completely understand where you come from. You just needed some help and there's no harm in that. May be mentioning that you have a Ph.D somehow bothered the guy on the phone. Don't know why he was allergic to that. You couldn have called me. Nadia would have helped Nadia with pleasure loool

I see that some of you are defending a case they don't know of. This woman is unknown to us. We should be careful in approaching the situation but we shouldn't judge her negatively or positively. Keep distance and if you are unable to help, just shut up shut up shut up. This is Ramadan

Dear Dr, Nadia,

I appreciate your response to the previous article with regard your phone call to a member of the Moroccan community requesting help and assistance for you and your husband to move from your actual location to the D.C Area due to a job opportunity.

I do not know which institution has offered you and your husband a job. I admit, in few instances, some institutions offer financial assistance to future employees to relocate from other cities and states. If it is the case with you and your husband, you should not have made a call to any non-profit organization seeking free labor.

You and your husband claim having Ph.D, which is a great accomplishment putting both of you in higher earning bracket and greater responsibility for the Moroccan and the Muslim communities. You have the knowledge and financial power to contribute in the community and not longer in the receiving end.

By making the call to the member of the Moroccan, you undermined your self, your husband, and your social status because you were begging for free labor

It is not clear how long you have resided in the USA and I must invite you to a new reality far from the one you and I lived with back in the mother land where, often, people use their family, social and financial status for further gains on the expense of the least fortunate in life.


I am sure you have access to the internet at home or one the local free libraries. You could have researched and compared rates for the best deal among moving companies. For your information, some companies offer the whole moving package; packing, loading, unloading and deliver to the new location with no hassle to their customer. Your job is to pay the bell when it comes in the mail unless you prefer to pay in advance. If you can not afford this option, you and your husband are facing financial difficulties or are full of it.

Money may not be an issue to you. You could have called the member of the Moroccan community exercising your right to invest your money in the Moroccan and Muslin community instead of any moving company that does business behind states’ lines. This way, you fulfill your interest under the best conditions possible, give the needy an opportunity to work and make an honest living and most of all, keep the money in the community for it to grow and success.

Frankly, “fee Sabyl-illah” is not for you. You and your husband are healthy, relatively young, and knowledgeable and have an income to fulfill your financial responsibilitie s.



Prophet Mohammed, Peace upon him, once said, “The giving hand is better that receiving hand”.

We all blessed with the opportunity to live and reside in the USA to pursue our dreams, raise a family, secure better future for our children and explore options not available in the mother land. One opportunity is to clear our mind and system from ideas and concepts wrong in the mother land and not acceptable in the USA. We should as a community help one another in any way we can. We should keep low profile, when we are not able to contribute.


Dr. Nadia: I am sure you are a dissent human being, a good member of the Moroccan community and your attentions are honorable, however, your decisions and choices are questionable to certain degree and could be easily addressed by you and your husband to act in the manner that is good for your interest and the community’s interest.


Finally, I want to wish both of you all luck in he world with your new job and the moving process. I am proud to know and learn that two member of the community are highly educated and are able to represent our culture, history and pride among the American society in positive and productive way. Ramadan Karin and Aid Moubarak.


Younes Alaoui
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I am from Meknes and lived in the U.S for 6 years. I have helped many who needed hlep and I myself received so much help FOR FREE from many friends but none of them was Moroccan unfortunately. When I wanted to to get married, I just needed witnesses and contacted Moroccans from a local Mosque. They never came on time and each time I called them, they had their phones off or never answered. I ended up calling some Syrian follows who were so nice and assisted as much as I could. To cut the matter short, Nadia didn't commit a crime by calling and enquiring abour getting some help. Yunes said that she and her husband are healthy and do not need any hekp? did you see that she was healthy? do you know her in person? Shame on you.

I'm not sure why this is generating so much talk, why it is attracting so much attention, why it was published in the first place. The fact it drew over fifty comments - more than some intellectually worthy articles heightening our understanding and fostering our situational awareness - speaks volumes about how trivialities tickle simple minds.