yasemin, sorry if you were poisoned

Submitted by pansy (Morocco), Jun 28, 2008 at 22:58

Poisoning is quite normal over here, if something gets in the way......poison it! I don't know the details of your experience, we all fell sick at some point in the beginning, maybe just food poisoning, who knows? I DO know that poisoning is the preferred method of dealing with problems in Morocco. Too many dogs - lay the poison, too bad if a human happens to accidentally take it in! Everything is inshallah!

I also know that when my (european) boyfriend leaves his drink on the bar while he goes to the toilet, a good barman will cover it and keep an eye on it to stop the hookers spiking it. (it is not just the men who use drugs). So Moroccans themselves are aware of it, it is not just in our imagination. When I first heard about the date rape drugging, quite recently, I asked my ex (Moroccan) boyfriend why he had never warned me about it, he told me that it is not a worry for me because I am not rich enough to be drugged and I know too much.

I have heard many stories of Europeans who have felt like they are being slowly poisoned. One woman threw her husband out because of the usual problems, later she checked the house thoroughly, she found rat poison hidden away - she knew nothing of a rat problem in the house. She had been feeling ill for some time, her health improved immediately! Ironically, he died of a heart attack soon after, he was in his thirties, she was in her fifties......... a definite case of "inshallah", if you ask me.

Magic is practised all over Morocco, especially amongst the berber people. Don't forget that these people are 'barbarians'. Islam arrived with the the arab invasion, so berbers are brain-washed peasants. They are combining their ancient beliefs with a religion which was forced upon them. They are racist against any outsider, especially arabs! They don't even admit (on their way to pray in the mosque), that it was the arabs who brought Islam to their country, they really believe that it already existed here. They couldn't possibly admit that the people they hate, brought the religion and way of life they 'love' to their shores. They will never allow an in-depth discussion about this with outsiders (us) because we couldn't possibly understand and have no right to question their beliefs, truth is, THEY are too afraid to ask questions of themselves, easier to remain brainwashed!

Yasemin, it sounds like yours is a story of the past, so I hope it made you stronger. Talk about it as often as you can, you may save someone who is not as strong as you.

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