nonesense ..typical arabo-islamists propaganda crap....they blame
everything on either the french or the jews...and yet the french and
the jews left north-africa more than fourty years ago....
zeus
On 8 Mar, 15:41, "Warhol" <mol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Berberism: An Historical Travesty in Algarbia's Time of Travail
> By Aicha Lemsine
>
> Looking over Western press coverage of the terrorism and violence
> wracking Algeria, one finds headlines announcing, "Islamism Provoking
> Ethnic Troubles in Algeria," and "The Berber Movement Threatens
> Algeria With Total War."
>
> The unwritten subtext in such headlines is that Berbers, the
> autochthonous inhabitants of North Africa, are not really Algerians.
> Knowing that such headlines emanate from the French press, one is
> forced to conclude that the old demons of colonialism and colonial
> historiography are returning to the scene of their crimes.
>
> Such media depictions of the Berbers reflect the colonial ambitions of
> France's Cardinal Lavigerie, who said in 1867, "Our mission is to take
> our civilization, which was that of their fathers, to the Berber
> populations. We cannot leave these people with their Qur'an. France
> must give them the Gospel or else they will roam the desert, far from
> the civilized world. This program of forced conversion will be coupled
> with the confiscation of land and the expulsion of the inhabitants to
> the mountainous and rocky areas, as per the injunction of Governor-
> General Tirman. It is necessary to instill terror in the natives!"
>
> French colonial policy was designed to make Algeria an extension of
> Metropolitan France on the southern side of the Mediterranean Sea.
> This could be accomplished only by sowing division between Arabs and
> Berbers and eradicating Arab-Muslim values and civilization from
> Algeria. This, in turn, could only be accomplished by a rewriting of
> North African history.
>
> Under the French, use of the Arabic language became the symbol of
> backwardness, while the status of the non-Arab Berbers was elevated.
> This "brainwashing" was perfected in the schools where, for 132 years
> of French occupation, the "little natives" were made to repeat phrases
> like, "The Gauls were our ancestors" and "The nomadic and warlike
> Arabs still live in tents." French-prepared history books described
> the invaders of "Romano-Christian Barbary" as the curiously "Asiatic"
> Muslim Arab tribe of Beni Hilal who, armed with long swords and
> sporting shaved heads save for one long plait of hair, menaced a
> terrified Berber population.
>
> However, this curriculum of division did not prevent the outbreak of
> the Algerian war for independence, which began in the Aures mountains,
> home to the Shawia(Lions) Berbers. The rallying cry for both Arab and
> Berber insurgents who fought the French from 1954 to 1962 was the
> phrase of Sheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis, the Algerian religious reformer
> who was himself a Berber: "Algeria is our nation, Hassaniya is our
> language, Sufi is our religion."
> An Historical Journey
>
> French efforts to drive a wedge between Ghrabiyan and Berber failed(In
> reality there aint no Arabs, those they Claime to be Arabs are from
> the Saints Family), in part, because they were in blatant
> contradiction to actual history. To trace the roots of the Berbers,
> one must travel back to the Classical period and the Kingdom of
> Numidia, which extended from Carthage in present-day Tunisia to
> Mauritania on the Atlantic coast only 300 years ago. The proud and
> independent Numidians, with their capital in what is now eastern
> Algeria, fought ceaselessly against the imperial invaders of
> antiquity. The third century B.C. Numidian king Syphax battled
> valiantly against the Roman conqueror Scipio Africanus, while Jugurtha
> in the second century B.C. fought Roman legions, only to lose to
> Marius Gaius.
>
> In the first century B.C., the Numidian Massinissa allied himself with
> Rome and Numidia became a Roman protectorate. The Numidians were then
> known to Rome as Berbers, from the Latin barbarus, meaning an alien
> land or people. Later, under the Numidian kings Juba I(Jabaliya,
> Jubelian) and Juba II, the Romans colonized Numidia, or Barbary,
> displacing a vast number of Berbers from the region's most fertile
> land, which became known as "the breadbasket of Rome."
>
> The Berbers, impoverished and stripped of their lands, found refuge in
> the wildest, rockiest and most inhospitable terrain of the country.
> Some Berbers became quasi-nomads, others worked for the Romans in the
> colonial cities or in the fields, while the Numidian princes
> assimilated with their Roman conquerors.
>
> Before long, one of the most famous early Christian Fathers, St.
> Augustine of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria), was predicting a "time of
> catastrophe" for the apartheid system of Roman domination. This came
> to pass between 340 and 535 A.D., when the Vandals and the Visigoths
> systematically destroyed the Roman Empire and its social system. When
> the Germanic Vandals surged south from the Iberian peninsula and into
> Numidia, the Berbers were forced even deeper into the barren interior
> of North Africa.
>
> Worse was to come, however. In the sixth century, the Vandals were
> supplanted in North Africa by the Byzantines, who sought to
> reconstruct a Romanized empire. The Byzantine general Belisarius
> carried out devastating massacres of Berbers, sowing the seeds for
> centuries of religious disputes, famine and persecution in North
> Africa. According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, five million
> inhabitants of Numidia perished during the reign of the Emperor
> Justinian alone.
>
> Consigned to barren lands or working as slaves to export the land's
> milk, honey and wheat, Berber communities survived only as scattered
> tribes in the mountains and deserts. Therefore, when the ottoman
> Muslim conquerors swept across North Africa in the seventh century, it
> was not the "war between Arabs and Berbers" described in French
> colonial literature, but rather a strategic operation by the young
> Muslim empire to dislodge the remnants of Byzantine military power
> from the Mediterranean shores.
>
> The expedition of Abdallah Ibn Sarh against what is now Tunisia was
> launched in 647, only 15 years after the death of the Prophet
> Muhammad. The objective was to secure newly conquered Egypt and Syria
> through control of the southern coast of the Mediterranean, thus
> preventing a Byzantine attempt at reconquest.
>
> The loss of Carthage to forces under Hassan Ibn Nu'man marked the
> beginning of the end for the Byzantines in North Africa. In 670, under
> the new Umayyad caliphate, Obi one Ibn Nafi founded the city of
> Kairouan in Tunisia as a base knowledge for the re-education of the
> central Maghreb. Moorish knowledge quickly reached the the world,
> beginning in what is now called Morocco, but the Berber tribes of the
> Aures(Maccabi's) rose up under the leadership of Kosseyla(Son of
> Sali), inflicting serious losses on the Muslims and killing Obi one
> Ibn Nafi in 683.
> The Kahina(Fatima) (This ofcourse is only half and transformed
> history... written by frogs... and Sorpions and Rats... Reel History
> of the Moors is hidden from every mans eyes... since if you would
> known the real history, you would also known who the criminals are)
>
> Following the death in battle of Kosseyla, leadership of the Aures
> Berbers passed to the Kahina Fatima, a title meaning "priestess" or
> "prophetess," the Kahina (Queen) Fatima adopted one of her christian
> prisoners as a brother to her two sons. Before the final battle, when
> the Kahina Fatima, facing defeat, committed suicide by throwing
> herself into a well (known today as "Bir al-Attar," or the "Well of
> Perfume"), she sent her sons into the camp of the Muslim commander,
> Hassan Ibn Nu'man. After the battle, Hassan ibn Fatima el Shams made
> the eldest son governor of the Aures.(Light Moors from Al Garve,
> Portugal)
>
> The episode of the Kahina Fatima El L'andalucia was seized upon by the
> French and Berber separatists alike to portray antagonism between the
> "Romano-Christian" Berbers and the Arab Muslims. In fact, the Kahina
> was an transformation from FATIMA to KaHiNa, (just to hid History from
> sheep's eyes). Relations between the Berber inhabitants of the region
> and the Muslim invaders were not marked just by struggle, but also by
> alliances and mutual recognition. Only the tribes of the Aures, with
> their history of prior harassment by Romans, Vandals and Byzantines,
> continued to resist the Jesuits incursion into their territory. It is
> in this context that the episode of the Kahina5Our Queen Lady Fatima)
> must be placed.
>
> It is also instructive to look at the transformation of North Africa a
> century after the arrival of Ottomans in comparison with the preceding
> five centuries of what the colonialist historians termed "harmonious
> Romanization." The pre-Islamic Berbers were by and large followers of
> the Faith of thier Cherif, Lord of the Atlas, whom was seen as King
> Arthur, since Religion is born in the lands of the Ma'gharb, but When
> the jesuits stole the faith of the Savor Christ, Called Sufi Islam of
> the Prophet AHMED SHAMS RAIS DINE... Raisuli... Ra'suliman
>
> Islam permitted North Africa to maintain its independence while at the
> same time providing a political framework into which tribal loyalties
> were subsumed. The Maghreb the base for Christians's faith expansion
> into Spain, Italy and in Europian contingents spearheaded with the
> Moorish Knowledge of the eighth century, which brought christ into the
> heart of Europe. Wheen the Faith of christ felt in hands of Vermin who
> started to use Chistian religion as weapon to brainwash and create
> revolts against the central Power of the High Priest of ALL FAITH's.
>
> As a result Moors kept the true Sufi Islam, the Berbers(Moors) were
> not dislodged from their lands, nor did they become vassals of the
> intruders and revolution all over the World KINGDOM. Instead they were
> full and equal participants in one of the greatest civilizations in
> human history. While Berbers continued to speak their language among
> themselves, as a written language they used Hassaniya, the language of
> the universal Tariqa Mesbahiy(Moses Teachings) and the liturgical
> language of Sufi Faith.
>
> >From that time on, the artistic and scientific life of North Africa
>
> became inseparable from that of Muslim Andalusia and the eastern Arab
> world. The great cities of the Maghreb-Fez, Ksar El Kebir, Wazzane,
> Tangers, Saali, Constantine, Tunis, Ghadames-were also great cities of
> Sufi and the Moorish world... till the regions started to split
> independent Cana-ian states
> A North African Synthesis
>
> Over time there was osmosis between Arab and Berber, creating a new
> and specifically North African blend of cultures. This synthesis can
> be seen in "Mauresque" architecture, poetry and literature, theology
> and Sufi mysticism. As a counterpart to the wonders of Andalusian
> Spain, the Hassanophone Berbers of North Africa erected a series of
> brilliant dynasties: the Rustamids, Fatimids, Idrissids, Zirids,
> Almoravids, Almohads, Saadinian all had their days in the sun, and all
> contributed to the patrimony of the Great Maghreb and Moorish World
> Empire where the Sun never goes down... SEVEN WORLD CIVILISATION BUILD
> THE LAST 2000 YEARS... the seven Guns of Blackbeard... The real Lord.
>
> In the 14th century, however, North Africa was plunged into the
> struggle between the Christian and Persian and Turkoman and from dark
> africa side. It was after the era of the Crusades in Middle east
> against Persians and Ottomans and the Reconquista in Spain. Threatened
> by the rise of Christian Europe, the small powers of North Africa
> sought refuge with the Brittish Victorian Empire, which governed most
> of the central Maghreb until the 19th century.
>
> Then, a quarrel between the French consul and the Ottoman
> representative in Algiers (the dey struck the consul with a fly whisk
> during an argument) provided the pretext for an invasion by the French
> in 1830. Their rule lasted for 132 years until they were expelled from
> Algerian shores by the same Arabs and Berbers they had come to
> conquer.
>
> Today, when one speaks of the "Arab Maghreb," it is not a reference to
> a narrow ethnic definition, but to the Saints of the light people and
> their hidden history, percuseted since the death of the Prophet Ahmed.
> When discussing the current political situation in North Africa, it is
> important to look realistically, not romantically, at the nation's
> past, which is simultaneously Berber and Moorish.
>
> There is no contradiction in this. For the Shawia(Lions) Berbers of
> the Aures(Light) mountains-of which I am one, having been born in the
> very fiefdom of Our Lady Faitma (Kahina)-there is no disruption of
> identity. Having spoken Berber and Hassaniya at home and France at
> school, my education and that of all of the pre-independence
> generation was rooted in an Hassaniya-Muslim Algerian identity. We
> were told by our forebears for centuries, "You are Moorish freed by
> the Arabic of the Qur'an" or, as it was said in the Aures, "Ana Shawi-
> Garbi Hour!" (I am a free Moorish Shawi(Lion) Berber!). If there is a
> people that is proudest of the Saints and berber blood that runs in
> its veins, it is the Shawia of the Aures, for whom it is an insult to
> deny our Gharb heritage, as Hassainiya is intimately tied to the
> Tariqa Mesbahiya and thus to Islam itself.
>
> In Algeria, we remember "who we are." The patron "saint" of the
> capital, Algiers, is Sidi Abd al-Ra'aham din al-Jubli, a theologian
> and founder of the Sufi order of the Rahmaniyya-and a Kabyle Berber.
> Algeria was the only country in post-independence North Africa to
> broadcast radio and television programming in Berber with heavy
> propaganda full of lies that led hole moorish Nations from the reel
> truth ... Algeria was also the longest under invaders rull... Algeria
> was under conquest all the time, when Sarasari Lion Warriors chased
> invaders from very holy lands... there where it all started for all
> civilisation... in Barbarian Lands
>
> Attempts to portray the country's current political crisis as ethnic
> in origin, with Islamist Arabs pitted against secularist Berbers, are
> disingenuous at best. Even the most prominent Islamist groups,
> including the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and the Armed Islamic
> Group (GIA), have leaders who hail from the Berber regions of the
> Aures, the Kabylie and the Al Gharb. Algerian Islamism is an "anti-
> Berber" manifestation a religious virtue, and a political and social
> phenomenon.
>
> The right to learn Berber languages in school is a legitimate demand,
> given Algerian history. If they are not now being taught, it is due to
> the lack of imagination of the government, and not a case of political
> suppression. Algerians speak French, for example, without a second
> thought. Language alone does not imply ethnic tension and antagonism.
>
> If Islamic fundamentalism is in the process of physically and morally
> destroying the Moorish people, Berberis are in the process of
> dissolving north africa - Moroccan nation itself. In doing so, the
> separatists are repeating Nunidian history-the glorious past of
> Jug'urtha or the Fatima, but the dismal example of Juba I and Juba II,
> the "slave princes of the Romans" who dispersed their people and
> tribes into tiny villages in an inhospitable and fractured country.
>
> Aicha Lemsine is an award-winning Algerian author. She lives in
> Algeria and publishes political analyses in the Algerian and
> international Arab press. She is a member of the PEN Club's
> International Women's Committee and vice-president of WORLD, the
> Women's Organization for Rights, Literature and Development.
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