Algeria has lived for more than a century and a quarter of a century, sorts and colors of stubbornness and torment under the French occupation, where hundreds of thousands of innocent people were martyred in front of the French cannons, their planes and their rifles, and it is with this torment that it was inflicting on the Algerians in its various forms, killing, plundering, disrespecting them, their religion, their sanctities and their culture, and cutting their heads off for their preservation. With her in the Museum of Man in Paris, she claimed secularism, secularism, and respect for religions and sacred things.

The Algerians have realized the extent of deception and falsehood that France was spreading among the people around the country and in the world that it is a secular, secular state that stands at the same distance from religions and beliefs, and that by this it respects the religion of Islam as it respects Christianity and Judaism, but one of its men in Algeria stood one day in absolute frankness He says: "We will not prevail over the Algerians as long as they read the Qur’an and speak Arabic, so we must remove the Qur’an from their presence and uproot Arabic from their tongues" [1].

And a group of Algerian scholars and men stood up to uncover the deceptive methods that were spread by France. They stood with nothing but their tongues, their effort, and their pens, trying to spread education, education and morals before the torrent of lies, delusions and restrictions on the sciences and institutes that France was keen to spread its identity and culture to reach "the French." "It is complete, and for Algeria to become a piece of France and one of its states.

One of those working scholars who are aware of France’s deception was the famous Imam Muhammad al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi, who had the greatest impact on Algeria’s modern religious, scientific and political history. So who is al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi?

How did he realize the secularism of France and expose it with his tongue and pen?

That is what we will see in our next lines.

Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi and the Association of Muslim Scholars

The scholar Muhammad al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi is one of the most important Algerian Muslim scholars in the modern era. He was born and raised in the city of Setif near Constantine in the year 1889 AD. His father pledged him to him, so he helped him go out to complete his education in the Levant, in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, on a scientific trip in 1911 AD, Where he resided in Medina until the year 1917 CE, taking on the hand of its scholars, and from there he moved to Damascus, which he received at the hands of its sheikhs until the year 1921 CE, then he returned to Algeria and his friend Abd al-Hamid bin Badis' scientific reform movement became active.

This religious reformist scientific movement that started with the beginning of the twentieth century, then developed with the establishment of Sheikh Abd al-Hamid ibn Badis teaching in Constantine, the day after his graduation at the Zaytoun University in Tunis in 1913 CE, as it had the greatest impact on Algerian society, and this awakening matured with the return of some Scholars from their immigration in the Arab East to Algeria, such as Abi Ya'la Zawawi, al-Tayyib al-Uqbi, and al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi, then crystallized in the establishment of the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars in 1931, the day after France celebrated the centenary of the occupation of Algeria, believing that it completely eliminated the Algerian personality by eliminating Islam and Arabism In which.

Sheikh Abdul Hamid bin Badis was elected president of the association and Brahimi as his deputy, but the French occupation quickly became fed up with the activity of this association opposing its goals, so he decided to arrest them, and Ibn Badis died in Constantine in 1940 AD, and in 1943 CE Ibrahimi was released, so the man went out with extra activity and delusion He contributed to the establishment of 73 schools and writers in one year, the goal behind which was to spread the Arabic language through memorizing the Holy Qur’an, and as a result of this activity, the Algerians flocked to build schools and increased to 400 schools during that period, which led to the wrath of the French again. [2].

May God have mercy on the two sheikhs, the two inspiring scholars, the two mountainous scholars, Abd al-Hamid bin Badis and al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi ... pic.twitter.com/Ya4kaWu8pm

- Hamza (@Roigourmand) May 3, 2020

In 1945 he was arrested, but he was released later, as he toured around Algeria to renew activity in establishing schools and clubs, then settled in 1952 in Cairo, and the great Algerian revolution broke out in 1954, so he made trips to India and other countries to supply them with money, and he returned to Algeria after Its victory in the revolution, and the rejection of the bias of one side against another of the parties to the revolution, and then on the 16th of April 1964 AD he issued his famous statement in which he criticized the existing authority headed by Ahmed Bin Bella for its deviation from Islamic principles and threatening the unity of the country, so the decision was issued to place him under residency Jabriya, and remained so until his death in May 1965 A.D., and he was a member of the Arab scientific academies in Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad.

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Algeria, since its establishment in the 1930s until the evacuation of the French occupation in the 1960s, was a cultural revolution that spread vigilance and led to conceptual transformations in society, as it did not shrink in itself and its internal cause, but spread the spirit of brotherhood and solidarity with the entire Maghreb. It also had close contact with the Arab East and its concerns, and this article is by the scholar Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi among other articles dealing with the global conspiracy against Palestine before and after the Nakba in the years 1947-1948 AD, and it was necessary to return to these articles and re-publish them to know the real reasons that linked the Algerians With the Palestinian cause like its beginnings and even today, this connection was the source of one of the most important symbols of Algeria in its modern era, Muhammad al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi [3].

What Imam Muhammad al-Bashir al-Brahimi had alerted to was the reality of the French “colonization” of Algeria, and its tools that were carried out by its representatives. He says: “What we have realized and peremptory experiences have attested are that they (that is, the French) are copies of a book, the scholar, the deputy, the soldier, the ruler, The simple employee and the farmer are all the same, and all of them are running on it on a mountain, as if it is one of the morals that do not change [4].

The governors of the French occupation of Algeria have always stressed the importance of secularism or French secularism with the specificity of which the French soldier, teacher, doctor and monk is based in Algeria, and the French generals in Algeria have always been proud of those people who spread the "enlightenment" and the French "renaissance" in the country. Country.

But Brahimi responds to these allegations in a categorical response by saying: “France came to Algeria with the" colonial "monk to corrupt the Muslims their religion, fascinate them with it about their beliefs, and question them by his triangulation of their monotheism, and the word“ Hadi ”with the word“ The Redeemer ”is harmful in their tongues ... and it came with the teacher. The colonialist "corrupts the minds of the Muslims, casts turmoil on their thoughts, detaches them from their language and manners, distorts them their history, reduces their ancestors in their eyes, makes them weak in their religion and their prophet, and teaches them - after that - a deficient education: an evil of ignorance. Muslims are as if he came to cure an illness with a cause, and kills a germ by creating germs, and tries his information in them as he tries it in rabbits, then lives on their diseases that colonialism enabled by poverty and ignorance. ”[5]

Brahimi dropped the lies of the French occupation in Algeria and his propaganda that he was spreading on the tongues of his generals and in his press through the method of empirical comparison on the ground, when he compared the reality of the Algerians to the lies of the French, and if they are collapsing without the slightest effort, he says: “People looked after a hundred and twenty years had passed. On these three "mercies" sent to Algeria from the sky of France (that is, 120 years after the French occupation of Algeria), if ninety-nine percent of the children of the Algerian nation are illiterate, they did not see a school, and they did not hear of a teacher, they lost their old by the blessing of colonialism, and they did not find What is new! And if colonial medicine did not eliminate illness but rather health, then four hundred thousand of the whole nation were entrusted, and the rest were dependent, and tens of thousands of fetuses fell to lose care, and the same number of boys dies of malnutrition, and the same of juveniles withers their return to lose the means of development, and if the monk The evangelist is a wolf of folks, lying in wait for orphans to evangelize children, and famines to seduce the fathers, as if one of the commandments of Christ for him is not to feed the stomach unless he takes the heart, and not to cover the back except by stripping away religion, and does not spread the teachings of Christ except by exploiting crises of weakness

Baa and the wretched "[6]!

After listing some of the horrors of the French occupation in his country in the year 1950 AD, that is, nearly 120 years after the occupation, Brahimi asks with a simple and clear question: “And before and after, is the government of France after preparing for the monks, and relying on monks, a secular state?” (7) ].

Brahimi wonders about the reality of the French (secular) secularism, which claims the separation of religion from the state, and the non-interference of the government in religious affairs, while at the same time it relies on monks and priests to change the beliefs of Algerians, their culture, religion and heritage, and fight them in their beliefs, and their predecessor, their history, and their old struggle, as he says.

The horrors of the French occupation in Algeria

Brahimi does not stop at questioning, and he portrayed for us some of the French policy in his country, a portrayal full of bitterness and sorrow, in which he revealed the great difference between what is said in the European and French media and newspapers about French secular values ​​and what the Algerian nation suffers in his time on the scientific, religious, health and political levels. .

But he is not satisfied with this. Rather, he takes the method of talkers and philosophers by asking questions and introductions in an abstract attempt to reach a conclusion. He says: “We have admitted that it (France) is distinguished by the claim that it (France) is the city of the world, its teacher, and it spread the banner of freedom in it, and that it is the precedent to the rejection of religions, and to cut off The connection between God and His servants, and that it is the founder of the system of secularism, which means setting a wall between governments and religions of any kind, and also meaning strengthening material authority, and weakening spiritual authority ... But what is wrong with it contradicts the entire colonial world, breaches its consensus, and deviates from its base, for it pacifies religions even It is false and unreasonable, and leaves its people free in their rituals and temples, and gives them some care and respect, and is content to dominate the worldly side of their lives, but it annoys Islam in Algeria and monopolizes its temples and rituals, and disparages its men, and swallows its endowments, so there is no mosque except what it opened, and there is no imam Except for the one who installed it, and no mufti except one who (Hanafah) or (his queen), and no sheikh of the path except one who (his paths), and no pilgrim except for the one whose pilgrimage or ritualism, and there is no fasting or breaking the fast except at the hand of (her committee), and there is no Hilal except what he witnessed by his vision (Her judge) "[8].

Brahimi laments France’s control over Muslim mosques and endowments in Algeria. This heinous act is the direct control over these mosques and mosques, and the choice of whom it deems to be worthy of the imamate and the safest administration for it, and the one who is more close to “French secularism,” but he says without fear: “Its swallowing of our religious endowments Charity is injustice, injustice does not last, and banditry, and banditry does not happen except in negligence, sleep or darkness. As for attention, alertness and light, predation is justified by strength and oppression, and it is not the characteristic of this time. ”[9]

These are some of the claims of French secularism in Algeria, the colonial era that lasted for 133 years. France was exposed as we have seen by Allama Brahimi, who is a witness to the era of the French occupation, and one of those who tasted woes on his hands, and we saw how he exposed the "secularism of France" that belongs to this Al-Ayyam accuses Islam of terrorism and Muslims of extremism, ignoring its recent history, which was recorded by hundreds of eyewitnesses, and its inks and scales have not dried up to this day, and Brahimi was one of the thousands of victims and eyewitnesses of the values ​​of "French secularism"!

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