Le Monde's Dirty Pens Game
Dr. Abdullah Boussouf (Historian, Secretary General of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad)
The French newspaper Le Monde launched its new campaign against Morocco on Monday, August 25, announcing the six episodes of the attack.
Curiosity drove us to read the first article, despite our knowledge of the French newspaper's deep-rooted hatred for Morocco and its sovereign, constitutional, and security symbols...
We have documented more than one instance of a stumble in an article intended to create a media and political uproar, and they did so, but with the opposite effect, as Moroccans rallied around the royal institution and His Majesty King Mohammed VI, strongly rejecting journalistic claims that cloaked hostility toward Morocco in the guise of journalism.
But will we wait for the remaining five episodes? Will we spare the effort of responding to them? Practically speaking, we can do that, but the fundamental question is: Are we Moroccans waiting for someone to teach us the history of our sultans and kings? Are we Moroccans ignorant of who we are and in need of someone to tell us about our relationship with our sultans and kings?
It is certain that Moroccan intellectual and historical productions and oral heritage are rich with numerous events and positions that reflect the strong relationship and close bond between the throne and the people.
However, since Le Monde, through its new marionettes, Christopher Ayad and Frederic Bobin, have undertaken the new attack against His Majesty King Mohammed VI personally, and have spoken about his health condition without precise scientific data on his health, and have merely recalled specific moments... we remind Christopher Ayad, author of the book “The Geopolitics of Egypt” in 2002 and “The Geopolitics of Hezbollah” in 2024, that His Majesty King Mohammed VI is considered the head of the Moroccan family, and therefore he never concealed the moments of his illness, which the Moroccan people knew about through the royal palace’s announcements.
The architects of the new attack from Le Monde’s offices in Paris believed they could shake Moroccans’ confidence in their King Mohammed VI, and that in doing so they would gain the favor and favor of the Algerian military regime. On the other hand, it appears that the “dreamer” duo has not thoroughly studied the history of Morocco and Moroccans, and their references are completely incomplete. The first worked as a correspondent for “Liberation” in Egypt, and is known to be a mercenary who hunts in hot spots like Syria, Lebanon (Hezbollah), and Sudan, where he spent his childhood… and the second in Tunisia.
It seems that the “money changers” imagined that organizing a media attack against the sovereign security institutions, first through articles by Frederic Bobin, using the names of some mercenaries and traitors as spices to whet the appetite of the military regime, and second through the heavy presence of some remnants of the left, who are hostile to the deeply rooted monarchies, on channels and podcasts that have made attacking Morocco their reason for existence and their daily bread… But all of this will not enable them to destabilize the ancient Moroccan nation, which is emotionally attached to its sanctities and to its king.
What is disgusting is the double standards practiced by the newspaper in its coverage of the Maghreb region. While Le Monde mobilizes all its mercenary pens to attack the symbol of Moroccan unity, His Majesty King Mohammed VI, it contents itself with publishing a passing news item about a dilapidated bus crash in Algeria, leaving dead and wounded. This comes at a time when the Algerian public is wondering about the fate of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and the secret behind his sudden disappearance!
We also note the preferential and biased treatment of Le Monde's editorial staff during the Algiers-Paris crisis, and how it dragged Morocco into a crisis that had nothing to do with it by constantly suggesting that the winner of the Algiers-Paris conflict was Rabat, without keeping up with the French state's own activities as an actor in the Libyan, sub-Saharan Sahel, and other issues.
I believe that reading “Egypt’s Geopolitics” in 2002, where he described the regime as dictatorial and undemocratic, with Gamal Mubarak’s succession and the need for the people to take action… and “Hezbollah’s Geopolitics” in 2024, where he mentioned the existence of 150,000 missiles directed at Israel, by Christopher Ayyad, is very important to understand the reality of dirty pens that believe they can incite and mobilize the street, and that they can read palms, relying only on some fake news and information available on the internet, and superficial articles that lack any depth of analysis and do not deserve to be called “journalistic investigations”…
To all of this, we say to these people, their employers, and their money changers that the honorable Kingdom of Morocco has always been an exceptional case, whether during the Islamic conquest, the Ottoman era, colonialism, liberation, or the Arab Spring. We remind them that Morocco is a “fabric of its own,” and that reading the five episodes is not important, because we know very well who we are and where His Majesty King Mohammed VI is leading us. No consolation for the traitors and the newspaper Le Monde.
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