Boston  / Morocco Board News--  A Male in his late twenties of Moroccan citizenship was arrested last week for allegedly plotting to blow up the Capitol building in Washington D.C. Whether or not you object to the entrapment scheme set by the FBI that ultimately netted this Moroccan fellow is a matter of great intellectual salience.

Boston  / Morocco Board News--Given the central location and the concentration of Moroccans in and around the town of Malden, Massachusetts, the Moroccan Consulate was right to designate an office space in that town as a polling station for the referendum on the proposed constitution. The idea behind this strategic thinking was obviously to draw a high turnout. Contrary to what I had initially anticipated, only an anemic 340 people out of a whopping 25 thousands Moroccans living in Massachusetts came out to play “civics” throughout the entire first 3 days of July.

Boston / Morocco Board News-    There seems that to be somewhat of a parallel between the study of ethics in international relation and the study of international intervention. In fact, many in the epistemic community suggest that the field of international relations did not reach a level of maturation until it started dabbling in the topic of international intervention. The debate between opponents and proponents of intervention further engenders the strident ideological differences between Realpolitik and Idealpolitic theorists.

Boston / Morocco Board News-  In most intellectual exchanges where the interplay between Islam and politics is probed and kicked around, fairness, being the corner stone of civilized debate etiquette seems to be the first unaccounted for casualty. Muslims find themselves cornered in a position where they have to choose between denying and denouncing any kind of relationship between religion and politics or be worthy of the big florescent label that reads: FUNDAMENTALIST

Boston—Morocco Board News--  Given the ubiquity of commentary, articles, and the videos that came at the throws of the February 20th demonstrations, we can all agree on the literary fecundity of the times. This proliferation is only matched by the clear dichotomous nature of opinions being cast by those on either side of the fence or even those who cowardly stood on the fence or toggled back and forth from once side to the other depending on where the pendulum of public opinion was swinging towards that day.

In a desperate attempt to save face, MACC went on a new e-mail box littering campaign hanging their major slip up on a News wire and taking no responsibility for their utter disregard to rudimentary principles known to lay people as diligence and fact checking. I, like most Moroccans do not subscribe to the wire, I get my news for free from the thousands of legitimate media outlets that I have a hard time keeping up with for their ubiquity.

Ba Achour Goes to Hajj

I just got back from a quick visit to Morocco where I spent Eid Al Adha amongst friends and family. The experience was surreal given the fact that this would be the first Eid I spent in Morocco in eighteen years. Revisiting Eid in one’s original country is certainly a story with all the merits of a good story, but the story of Ba achour’s journey to Hajj is without a doubt a story for history books.