What happens between Italy and Morocco? The Ikram Nazih case
Because little is said about the Italian-Moroccan case Ikram Nazih. Italics by Giuseppe Gagliano
The contradictions between democracies, their sacred values - freedom, respect for the person, the sacredness of life – and the logic of the globalized economy and its competition seem to know no end. In fact, a new Zaki case is looming on the horizon.
We are of course talking about Ikram Nazih's Italian-Moroccan.
Born in Italy to a Moroccan family, in Vimercate, a town in Brianza, she had been living for some time in Marseille, France, where she was studying law. In 2019, and this is his crime, he shared a post on his Facebook profile, in which he jokes about a Sura of the Koran, calling it a "whiskey verse". A cartoon at the time quite widespread on social media, which the 23-year-old shared but almost immediately canceled, but not quickly enough to avoid being denounced by a Moroccan religious association to the authorities in Rabat.
Two years later, last June, Nazih flew to Morocco to visit his family. Landing at Rabat airport, she was immediately stopped: she was denounced for having publicly offended Islam, which in Morocco is the state religion. The Moroccan penal code provides for a sentence of up to 2 years in prison for anyone who offends the Islamic religion, and the penalty can be up to 5 years if the violation is committed in public or through social networks. On June 28, she was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and a payment of 50,000 dirhams, or approximately 4,800 euros.
Also in this context, like that of Egypt, our country – like all other European states, in particular France (with 420 million euros in 2020), and non-European countries such as the USA – has long enjoyed fruitful economic and economic collaborations. in the oil context both in the automotive context and in the less politically correct but equally profitable one of arms and possible exports in this sector.
We are waiting for some illustrious academics – whose usefulness and foresight are similar to those of the analysts who planned the war in Iraq and Afghanistan – in the field of philosophy of politics, political science and sociology, will be able to resolve on the speculative level such contradictions. evident and jarring. On the other hand, hope is the last to die …
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/marocco-italia-rapporti-caso-ikram-nazih/ on Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:51:35 +0000.