Because of its articulation, the Berber language is easier to use in singing than Arabic, for example. Berber is similar in this to English which is also a flexible language for singing. Anyway, I could not have sung Berber in the traditional way as the great singers do in Morocco. What interested me was precisely to take this language out of its traditional circuit and share it.
Your native and family culture obviously holds a large place in your influences?
My mother was in theater but did not complete her artistic history. Somehow I think I’m continuing it for her. My family is a family of musicians, famous percussionists in Morocco. They were part of a tradition of Moroccan music, but on the other hand, they collected vinyls of rock, jazz, blues. In my family where several generations rubbed shoulders, my grandmother listened to Berber music, my mother listened to Fairouz and Oum Kheltoum, my uncles of reggae, chaabi, blues. And I was listening to black American music. So it became natural for me to compose and sing. And then the first time I went on stage, it was no longer negotiable, I was in my place.
Your album contains African, jazz, Cape Verdean sounds, but cannot be described as oriental …
Quite simply because I am not oriental in fact and that I do not make Arab music. Seen from France, the Maghreb is Arab, but it’s not that simple. Already, Arabic music does not exist as such but has known Phoenician, Persian and Indian influences. This notion of the Orient is a vague notion. The Middle East has its history and its culture, the Maghreb and Africa have theirs. Why is the music of the Balkans, which has known more Middle Eastern influence than Morocco, not called oriental music? Why do we systematically call Maghreb music oriental and not African? Beyond that, the whole question of identity also arises. The Maghreb must rediscover its Africanness, look south, and stop looking east or north. Everyone is called “Arab”, but the Maghreb is not inhabited by Arabs but by North Africans.
Does Africa hold a special place for you?
Would not Africa be able to add something more to what is happening in the world and could it not bring to the culture of the world something more important than its gold, its uranium? My answer is yes, definitely. I am passionate about African culture. For example, I have studied certain African cosmogonies that tell the story of the evolution of life on Earth by symbolism, which modern science has validated only with Darwin. When I see the intelligence and the complexity of the organizations of certain African societies, I tell myself that we still have everything to learn. For example, the Pygmies only tolerate human organizations of 30 people and no more, because beyond that it is unmanageable. In Kabyle society, a man who had committed a blood crime could only escape banishment if a woman symbolically put a veil over his head as protection. The only two peoples to have known women warriors are the Celts and the Berbers. Democracy was known in Berber societies through the organization of the Tajmaât, these assemblies which regulated social life without any interference from religion. Berber is 6,000 years of culture, from Morocco to Egypt, with deep ramifications in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a living culture and it should remain so. All of this is valuable to study and to keep.
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Le Point
A woman riding her horse in a small Kabyle town in peace.
In Kabylia, religion is not part of the daily life of our peasants. It is towards the agrarian calendar that they have their eyes turned. Elsewhere, religion occupies an important place in the life of the citizen. It is to this that he turns at the slightest questioning, at the slightest fear, at the slightest event, banal though it may be. Religion is the key to all their questions. It is the solution to all worries even when it turns out to be outdated, such as when it comes to curing diseases or explaining strange natural phenomena.
Between Kabylia and the other regions of Algeria, it is not only the language that differs, it is deeper than that; aptitude for civilization. As Kabylia moves forward and tunes in with a changing world, other regions sink into the depths of fundamentalism, trapped in the past of a glorious Islamic state that is not one.
Kabylia and the other regions have taken two paths that cannot cross; they are diametrically opposed. One leads towards progress, civilization, and all the values that it entails, while the other, is a forbidden direction that leads straight towards a collision. Are we doomed to dissuade them from turning back to accompany us, or will we have to make our way without looking back? This is a question that deserves to be decided.
Salim CHAIT
Colonial Algeria did not wait for the arrival of Turkey and Qatar to begin to salafize Kabylia. When Said Sadi was Bouteflika’s friend, salafization was already in full swing. The only force which preserves the Kabyle people from Islamism is their hope of independence of Kabylia.
Overall, one gets the impression that any diplomatic action on your part is seen by some as manipulation from abroad.
We did not expect to receive flowers from them! Our enemies, even our adversaries, can always accuse us of whatever they want. We destabilize their interests for the benefit of those of the Kabyle people. We know what we are doing and the scope of our actions. The negative judgments and condemnations of our diplomacy come only from those whose objective is to keep Kabylia captive, dominated, and destroyed. The Kabyle diplomatic caravan, by the way, still hears unfriendly voices which it refuses, for the moment, to deal with.
Two Algerian “journalists” have recently been talked about. Omar Touati called for your assassination and Bensedira spoke about your next assassination by the Moroccans.
Both are agents of the Algerian government. So there is surely a plan for my physical liquidation. One assumes it openly on behalf of the military and the other wants to wipe the knife off the backs of Moroccans.
The attempted assault I suffered on September 6 was a failed attempt.
Neither did the assassination of my son Ameziane in 2004 affect my resolve, nor my own assassination will stop Kabylia from moving towards independence. On the contrary, it will strengthen and galvanize it. Even dead, I will stand forever.
I salute all those who have supported me and denounced these appeals to kill me.
Shame on this Algerian political subclass and its human rights organizations that are silent out of complacency.
Finally, I would like to offer my condolences to the family of little Yanis, whose body was ultimately found lifeless. His disappearance moved all of Kabylia and we are all upset by this tragic outcome.
]]>As long as the land on which they live is full of resources, and there will be a thousand and one sharks ready to invent a mythological story for you that would justify the occupation of this land and set the brothers against each other in such a way that they never rebel.
The control by the peoples of poor northern Europe over the rich southern regions is a case in point of these mental manipulations. An invading religion and people are created by capturing the imagination of the beaten and superstitious peoples. Our site has already demonstrated it by a few articles, here, there, and again here.
Today we are going to illustrate the deception Islam by four photos of old religious buildings which should cover the curiosity, the suspicion of the specialists.
History says that a superpower of camel drivers descend on North Africa to impose good religion on the peoples of North Africa and southern Europe without a spine. A grandiose and bloody event, of the same nature as the Nazism of the 20th century, of which no period document mentions it.
The first thing the invader Okba( A name that only appeared in Muslim literature in the 10th century) did after slaying and terrorizing the poor and weak Numidians was to build a giant mosque in Kairouan, Tunisia so that the Muslim devotees could make their prayers of submission to the greatest of gods, Allah. Prayers of which no faithful yet knew the rite since it will not be revealed until three centuries (300 years) later with the beginnings of the hadiths. Then the immediate successors of this conqueror, without taking rest or ensuring their conquered position, set out to assault Spain, which they brought to their knees in record time without encountering the slightest resistance. As if the country was not inhabited.
There too, these Bedouins who came out of the desert discovered the gifts of great builders, they built a Cordoba cathedral mosque which with its forest of pillars strongly resembles the Kairouan mosque. Either they were artists with experience acquired from their Bedouin ancestors in Hijaz, or it was fashionable to build religious buildings with its nave made of pillar forests. Because before the apparition of these super bedouins without fear and without reproach, the same architectural style existed centuries before in the so-called “Christian” buildings, like that of the Basilica cistern of Istanbul which also has its prayer room hampered by a dense forest of pillars.
For those who never have their feet in a mosque, the prayer room (muṣalla) in Islam is important, fundamentally rectangular to allow the priors to organize themselves in rows and ranks, which the rooms encumbered by a forest of pillars does not allow
Then Mecca, the home of the greatest of gods, Allah ukhbar, the god Allah in whose name man’s most incredible conquests over men were made, there is a real riddle on how to show the devotion that these incredible fanatical supermen, “genius” in the military and architectural fields, had to their god Allah. The greatest of all gods! Mecca, Al-Haram Mosque, the forbidden place of worship. Strangely translated as a sacred mosque. Take a look at what the equivalent of the Vatican dedicated to men representing the Christian god is. The photo of Mecca is taken during the English protectorate in the 19th century. Judge for yourself by seeing the photos. I would like to understand these oddities of that epoch. Was Allah less great in Mecca than he was in Kairouan and Cordoba?
To finish citing buildings of worship, in the 19 th century a discovery of a ruined cathedral, The basilica of Damous El Karita, Carthage dating from the second century after J.C. Excavations made by people of good will and others of bad faith have been undertaken to understand the rite. Alas, if the North Africans, convinced of their Africanness, are not associated with the research, we will still see fantastic explanations coming from the savages of monotheism.
It is clear that these buildings with their forest of pillars throughout the prayer space are not places of Islamic worship. Not even Catholic worship. Rather, it would be a cult that is unknown to us today by the customary and savage destruction caused by monotheism. A cult that pseudo-historians could not think of for lack of moral integrity or for political and religious conviction.
In the hands of our children, these books, disguised as historical and educational tales, are a perfect way to produce and reproduce terrorists, assassins, thieves or rapists.
In these books, the majority of which are pirated, the Muslim religion is nothing but an ideology of anger and hatred. Where the men are hysterical. Where all other religions are enemies and to be annihilated. Where all those who are different from us represent the ungodly and the disbeliever. And therefore, we are asked to declare holy war on them.
In these books, war is a picnic. War is a game. Human blood is just a common red liquid. If all the wars that humanity has known, without exception, teach us that they are producers of suffering, misfortune and disasters, in these children’s books, wars with all their blood, tears and wounds are the bearers of joys, pride and honor.
With these books, we do not teach our children the love of others, nor the art of living together, nor the meaning of understanding the other, nor the opportunity to discuss with the other. Nor how to share heaven and earth with the different other. They are taught to live with the fear of the other.
– Case law of the Muslim child –
With these books, known as children’s literature, children are taught about war while banishing the scent of love. A culture, any culture, that does not like the other is a culture on the verge of extinction. The people who do not see themselves in the mirror of the other are a blind people. Their mirror is cracked.
Without children who know how to play, laugh and smile, we will never be able to build a culture or a nation of tomorrow.
Algerians are a people who hypocritically hide any feeling of love or affection and, in return, maintain a culture where death and hatred take precedence.
Source : Amin Zaoui
Thus the crime continues at a distance, allowing them to dress in the humanist cloak for a lower price. They promote a multicultural world, but provided that this world is Arab and Muslim. The Kabyle people are one of the victims of this crime. Judge all the ugliness, the horror of the crime.
While the Algerians demonstrate for more religion in their daily lives, for a sack of semolina for their stomachs, for a Palestine to relieve their hatred of the world, the Kabyle people in turn organize demonstrations for the right to read books, for individual freedom, freedoms and equality between women and men. And guess what people the alleged civilized West is protecting and arming?
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