Eid al -Adha this year was a shy guest on some of the villages of Souss, which wore a dress of “stillness”. There is no screaming of children who escape from “Boujloud” as usual as a year, and there are no young people who have been racing from the early hours of the feast to collect the soft sacrificial skins. For the first time, “Bilmoun”, as it is called in the local dialect, did not appear in several regions, in public arenas and alleys chasing children as the time in it, and provides folkloric performances that carry the spirit of the ancestors of the Amazighs and express their culture that they cherish.
According to well -informed sources, the governor of Souss -Massa held a meeting with the workers of the regions and workers of the region, during which the organization of the “Boujloud” celebrations was prohibited this year, which is the same decision that local authorities in the administratively affiliated to the Tiznit region of Tiznit province and committees that usually oversee the organization of “Boujloud” celebrations in many villages in the region, while being satisfied with organizing evening parties Artistic artistic heritage is absent.
This decision sparked the dissatisfaction of a number of civil and collective activities, which confirmed that these popular celebrations never contradict the official directives, in reference to the directives of King Mohammed VI, who called on his citizens not to establish a ritual slaughtering the Eid sacrifice by drawing this year, in order to reduce the financial burdens for them, especially those with limited income, and to give an opportunity to file the national herd from livestock, which has declined greatly due to the years of drought The climatic and economic challenges that faced the country.
In this regard, Abdel -Hadi Al -Smali, a civilian and member of the Boujloud Celebration Committee in the Affod roundabout, also said to the Aklo group, in a statement to the electronic newspaper Hespress: “There is no clear and convincing reason to prevent Boujloud’s celebrations this year, as it seems at first sight that the matter is related to the royal decision to suspend the slaughter of the slaughter of the slaughter, which is the decision that the general Moroccans committed from the common interest represented by In the face of the national herd, which was affected by drought.
On the other hand, the same spokesman pointed out that “there is a point on which it was built, perhaps in preventing Boujloud celebrations, which is its association with the soft sacrifices of the feast, meaning that the authorities may have seen that allowing these celebrations may involve a violation of the royal will, and this is not true.”
Al -Samlali added, explaining that “this year is certainly exceptional, and therefore many young people in the region have been preparing, since the issuance of the royal decision, to revive the“ Bilmoun ”celebrations by bringing the skins of livestock from the licensed public massacres, which are skins that belong to the internal consumption, and they stored and tanned to remain valid for a long time.” He continued: “There is also fashion Refined used in these celebrations, and even have been tanned for a long time, even before the royal decision, and therefore the direct relationship between Boujloud and the sacrifices of the day of Eid, that is, there is no convincing reason to prevent these celebrations since there is no violation of the decision to prevent the slaughtering ritual.
The same civil actor affirmed that “the youth of the people of the region that have been reviving this celebration for more than five decades were reluctantly accepted the decision of the local authorities to prevent the celebrations,” highlighting that “the organizing committee was keen to organize technical parties on this occasion, in order to deliver a message that” Bilmoun “is a cultural heritage and a symbol of identity and distinction, and that the current generation, as well as the previous generations, are not just clinging to it as not A festive weather, but an expression of self and belonging. ”
For his part, Al -Hussein Al -Omari, a professor of anthropology and interested in heritage issues, explained that “the decision to prevent such cultural and heritage demonstrations is not the first of its kind.
The same spokesman continued, in a statement to the electronic newspaper Hespress, that “the royal decision not to slaughter the sacrifice of the feast for this year was a very positive impact on the general Moroccan citizens, and it was clear and was issued based on data, but it did not stipulate the prevention of heritage demonstrations, and therefore the decision issued by the authorities has a kind of diligence that is not required, and not in its place at all.”
Al -Omari pointed out that “the organization of these celebrations does not involve any violation of the royal directives, because the livestock skins that are used in this celebration are present in the massacres, and can be obtained easily, and therefore it cannot be linked to the sacrifices of the feast and the assumption of misfortune in this weather, or the issuance of jurisprudence and decisions that strike in the depth a popular celebration that constitutes an original part of the identity and the Amazigh heritage, and reflects, and reflects The diversity of Moroccan society and its cultural depth, as this ban opens the way for weak communication between generations, and leads to the erosion of cultural values that distinguish the Amazigh Survi society.
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