inferiority complex can drive one either to wholly reject his identity and get identified with those who hold 'power', be it economic, political,socia l or cultural, or to wholeheartedly accept his identity and thus become a real bigot!! i think this what happened to those real monikers whol call themselves apazigh activist who support israel and ask for ethnic cleansing.
NB: FOR MORE INFROMATION ON THE AMAZIGH PSYCHE, HISTORY AND CULURAL READ: ABDLHAAMID AL AOUNI:THE DEATH OF THE AMAZIGH MIND (mawt al 3a9l al amazighi) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER WRIITEN ON THE BERBERS. YOU WILL GET MORE INSIGHT ON WHY ARABIC HAS BECOME THE FIRST LANGAUAGE AND WHY THE AMAZIGHS ARE WITHOUT CIVILISATION, EXCEPT "THE CIVILISATION OF CLAY"

If the Amazaight were in complete control of Morocco and thus Morocco were a Berber State, it would be the most powerful country in Africa, with a powerful economy, excellent education system, and a government full of integrity.

Morocco, of course, is NONE of those things, consequently it is clear to everyone that Morocco is an Arab Nation. If Morocco ceases to be an Arab Nation, or if there is a civil war between the Amazaights and the Arabs, I guarantee you the Amazaight state will be like South Korea and the Arab portion of Morocco will be like North Korea except minus the Nuclear weapons or anything else worth boasting about.

The Arabs are a mess.

It is amazing to me the invisible hate that the Arabs and the Berber reserve for each other. The couple of comments below are a clean indication.

Moroccan patriot. Arabs are ruling the world because Allah bless with the black gold. A small country like Qatar is enslaving the Israelis that your cousins love to worship. You should also be thankful to the Arabs for not doing what the anglophones did to the American Indians or native Americans as they like to be called.
Arabs brought Islam and saved the Berbers from Barbary, the anglophones brought cannons and killed millions of natives. Israel that you love to worship is killing your brothers and you want to establish relationship with Apartheid. Have some dignity.

To borrow Rodney King's words " Let's all get along"

I hate to repeat myself. I don't have nothing against Arabs I thank them for bringing us a great religion but one thing for sure I am not an Arab but proud berber.now for mister racism instead of antiracism,the book he recommended is a brain wash demagogue baathist.as long as the berber language and the alphabet is not taught in school for all moroccan with no exception we as a berber will feel always colonized by those who took from us our culture and our history and there will be never a free tension morocco and developed morocco.again I don't have nothing against the Arabs, I just wanted them to respect our culture as we do theirs and in the end we are all moroccan,Muslim s,jewish and Christians one culture one nation different religions.

Morocco's accession into the Arab league is not only akin to the membership of Somalia and Sudan, but also to Egypt, Iraq, Syria and all the other states who were never really classified as Arab historically.

"During the Umayyad Caliphate, Arabs had the highest status, half-Arabs next, and non-Arab Muslims of whatever racial background next. Non-Muslims were at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Although one of Muhammad's strongest directives had been the brotherhood of all believers, Arabs did not want to share their superior position with non-Arab Muslims. Understandably, non-Arab and half-Arab Muslims began to demand equal status. Many Arab soldiers had taken conquered women as concubines, and their half-Arab children demanded to be treated equally. This debate caused growing resentment against the Umayyad Caliphate, which was essentially an Arab dominated government, and in 750 there was a major uprising against Umayyad rule. The leader of the revolt was a distant relative of Muhammad. He was joined by Shii and non-Arab forces. They defeated the Umayyads and established the Abbasid Caliphate. In an effort to distance themselves from the former Umayyad dynasty, they moved their center of government into what had been Persian territory and allowed some Persians to hold government jobs. Although Arabs remained important at all levels of leadership, Egyptians, Syrians and especially Persians rapidly rose to position of power in the Abbasid Caliphate." ("The Human Drama: Jean Johnson, Donald James Johnson")

Whilst it's true that Arabs and middle-easterne rs have settled in Morocco throughout the ages, many of whom from the "People of the House", they long assimilated with the indigenous population. Most settlers were simply male missionaries and thus they were naturally left with little recourse but to wed the local women (an actual preference for the Umayyads who would ship them off as far away as the Middle-East), hence each passing generation would steadily become less and less Arab and more and more indigenous.

So what exactly makes a nation? What race are the British for example?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1288231.stm

The same question could be asked about the French, the Italians and especially the Spanish...

"It is an error of geography to have assigned Spain to Europe; it belongs to Africa: blood, manners, language, the way of life and making war, in Spain everything is African. The two nations have been mixed up for too long–the Carthaginians who came from Africa to Spain, the Vandals who left Spain for Africa, the Moors who stayed in Spain for 700 years–for such a long cohabitation not to have confused the race and customs of the two countries. If the Spaniard were Mohammedan, he would be completely African; it is religion that has kept it in Europe." -- Dominique Dufour de Pradt

Likewise, it is religion and language which makes us part of the Arab world. An Arab world which (as with all nations or bodies) isn't defined by race, for we are Moroccan.

So what does it mean to be European or what does it mean to be Mediterranean?

"Morocco is like a tree, it has its roots in Africa and its branches in Europe" -- King Hassan II

Let's get a few other things straight, a person wouldn't need to speak Arabic, nor claim to be an Arab to legitimize their "noble descent". As exampled by the many ayatollahs in Iran who don the black turban, as opposed to the white turban, thus signifying their claim of blood-ties to the Prophet (saws) and his family (as), and yet they're not considered any less Iranian and nor is Iran made any less Persian for that. In fact, for a better example, let's not forget that Ismail (Ishmael) and Ishaq (Isaac) were brothers and yet from their offspring sprung two very separate nations.

"I know the Moroccan people, for I descend directly from them." -- King Hassan II

It is inconceivable to imagine that the number of Arabs who came out of the desert of Arabia were in large enough number to change the demographics of all the more densely populated, urban nations of antiquity (and that includes the great civilizations of North Africa). Even the vast and rapid spread of the Umayyad dynasty actually owed its expansionary success to neophytes who acted as "mercenaries" for their new faith and carried the torch westward and eastward on behalf of a higher Arab command; the further it moved out of Arabia the less Arab its forces became. Tariq ibn Ziyad and his army were by no means Arab. Also, for every "Arab" which settled in Morocco, it wouldn't be too far fetched to say 10 times more Moroccans settled across the Middle-East: the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as pilgrimage to other holy sites were common practice, not to mention all the Moroccan merchants and missionaries who helped spread the message of Islam (from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa to Asia), as well as the fleets of Moroccan troops which were sent to partake in religious wars throughout the centuries. The telling difference is hegemony, and although Moroccans were historically proudly Moroccan and upheld their Moroccan traditions for centuries on end wherever they went, they too eventually lost out to the various ideological movements and colonial conquests of the modern era.

Among the many mischievous colonial policies in Morocco was the blatant attempt at igniting a civil conflict between the purer mountain tribes and the "mongrel" city dwellers of Morocco. The French favoring the former hoped to exploit any ancient old tension between the Arab-speaking population and Berber-speaking population by promoting the notion of a distinct Arab and Berber identity in Morocco. ("Politique Berbere et litterature berberiste au Maroc colonial: Maurice Le Glay et Marie Barrère-Affre.")

"The Berbers, according to all theories, ought to have hated the Arabs, but in fact they never did so" ("Morocco Under Colonial Rule: Robin Leonard Bidwell")

Such is life.

Whilst Arabization has occurred for centuries across the entire Muslim world, in many cases it was a subtle, self-inflicted wound. One which didn't necessarily come from a high esteem of Arabs, but rather a desire to gain political capital. Hence, whilst various countries today claim an Arab heritage, many of them still look down upon the authentic Arabs of the Khaleej in the same vein as that their ancestors had done. Also, it's not just Arabization which the Muslim world has experienced. North Africa has seen episodes of re-Berberizatio n and the Middle-East has witnessed Turkization and Persianization.

Nasserism, however, was perhaps the most oppressive and blanket form of Arabization that the Muslim world has witnessed to date and the nationalist/soc ialist movements which began to dominate urban Morocco in response to French colonialism, were the largest contributing factors in the import of certain elements of the pan-Arabist ideology. The late King Hassan II actually opposed the movement and our past and present Kings have always worked hard on preserving our various characteristics , cultures, traditions, artisan and everything else that makes us who we are. Moroccan.
news.google.com/.../

(The Arabists however, continue to sell all our achievements away, accrediting them to everyone but Moroccans for just as they see themselves, everything wonderful in Morocco is to them an import. It is after all, also important to create a sense of inferiority among the Berber-speaking population in order for Arabizition to succeed. Thus the ill-educated perspective of people like Haddaoui, who toy with all kinds of fanciful beliefs and incoherent claims.)

On a final note, the word "Amazigh" and its recent, forced absorption into our language owes itself to the Berberist movement (born outside of Morocco) and their equally disturbing ideological agenda. Imazighen (Amazigh) was used only be the tribes in middle Morocco, whilst Ishelhin (Shleuh) was used further south and Irifin (Riff) further north.

I sincerely hope that Moroccans overcome all these foreign ideologies.

Today many talk of an "Arab" Morocco in the same vein as they do a "Latin" America. The issue clearly needs addressing. We are Morocco, full stop.

"When the NW African populations were grouped according to cultural or linguistic differences, the partition was not associated with genetic differentiation . Thus, it is likely that Arabisation was mainly a cultural process"
nature.com/.../5200464a.pdf

Man en Blanc: you made me laugh for a second :-) I can't tell you how many time I have gone through that same pattern myself

THERE ARE NO 100% ARABS IN MOROCCO.

You can't help but love MP's posts. You are all over the place my friend, You hate the Arabs, the Berbers, the bankrupt European, the red neck Americans, Apartheid Israelis, Moroccan authorities and even NGOs.

I want to know who do you sympathize with? I'll give you prop for consistently hating everything that breaths. Keep your posts coming, I enjoy reading them, they make me crack, they are never the same and they generate my interest.

Does it matter if Morocco is an Arab country? Does it matter if you are a white man or a black man, what matters for those of us who believe in Islam, that you are a muslim. The rest is just a distraction from the thru purpose of an Arab or an Eskimo.

Like the Moroccans ,the Sahrawi's are Arab.Like has been said previously,Arab is not an ethnicity.The only way to resolve problem in Arab Nations is to end foreign interference of EU,USA and Zionism.
Thankyou for Posting my reply admin ;-)

Mr Sahwari , North africa is not an Arab land , go back to your rat land ( Arabia ) and create your sand republic .For this reason to call it Arab republic you will never have a chance in hell to have it on the Amazigh land .

Yes, it's Moroccan country.
We transitioned from the stone age to the industrial age without any civil wars, thank god. But after that, Moroccans all learned a language called Amazigh or Shalha or Berber. So the new comers after that (the legal immigrants) all had to communicate with the Amazigh speaking Moroccans in sign language if they could not learn Amazigh. After that age, Arabic was one of many languages spoken in morocco alongside with Amazigh Hassani Darija Hebrew Egyptian and French Spanish and Portuguese, also Greek Roman and Phenitian. During the colonial days Moroccan learnt French and Spanish but remained speakers of Darija alongside with Amazigh and Arabic. The bottom line is Morocans today speak a language called Moroccan. It can be written in Arabic Darija Alphabet and Arabic Classical Alphabet, as well as Latin alphabet and Amazigh Alphabet.

To test my theory step out to any street in any of the imperial cities and Casablanca and Laayoune Dakhla Oujda Tangier Rabat etc.. the Moroccan language is spoken by the Moroccan people on the streets of Morocco.

PS we like both the Amazigh alphabet and the Arabic alphabet and the Latin alphabet, but my hope is that the royal academy will soon employ thousands of university students to survey citizens all over the country and finally pick Hindu Alphabet as the official alphabet of the state of India. Because Moroccans will always know many languages among which Arabic is one and Amazigh is another. We like it that way.

your wonder and thoughts whether Morocco is an Arab country lead me to another question: Are realy the Arab coutries Arabs? Is the Arab launguage realy Arabic ....my answer is definitly NO, to better understand you have to go back centiries before: The Arabic was spoken only in Yemen when it was as Rome it was, coontrolled by people from Habasha (current Ethiopia),When smaen (Ismael)brother of Issac, of course descendant from Abraham came to current Saudia Arabia, his language melted with the arabic language and became ARABIZED.. to sum up There is no Arabic people, no Arab Language, it's only Arabized people and arabized laaguage (mousta3raba) beacuse the original people and language (3ariba) have totaly desapperad. (graet reference is the book of Taha Hussein: the Jahilia poem (fi ashi3r al jahili)

morrocco is berber and has to be prozionist and prowestern,for our interests.we have no link to saudi arabia or the arabs there.long live israel ,usa and bring back the berber empire

I am an Arab to the bone and proud to be and I want everyone here to know that even if Arabs are the worst people Ever, it is prevledge enough for me that Mohammed
(PBUOH) was an Arab. however, when I was asked if I would accept the UAE nationality if given to me I said NO. simply because I am Moroccan first.

inferiority complex !
yeah, WHY WOULD A SON OF SHIQONQ,SAINT AUGESTIN, SAINT MONICA, Massinissa, Jugherta, Juba, Dihia ,Akssil, Al matgheri of Berghwata, Tinhinan, Ben Tashfin, Ben Yassin, lkhettabi, Moha uhmmu. Assu ubesslam Azayku ... A SON OF a land called TAMAZGHA! WHY WOULD he have inferiority complex in his land?
_ the SON OF AWRABA who gave an Arab refugee some dignity, WOULD he feel inferiority complex !?

_ the SON OF AlMOHADS who forced Banu hilal to give up the life of mercenaries and settle down near Anfa, SOULD he feel inferiority complex !??
OF COURSE NOT.