Since Morocco is a Muslim country, breaking the rules of fasting is against the law and the punishment can be one to six months in prison and fines at almost 100 dollars, according to Article 222 of the Moroccan Penal Code. However, a group of protesters calling themselves as MALI (the movement for defence of individual liberties) had attempted to break their Ramadan fasting in a public place to express their objection to this law. The protesters met up in a train station in Mohammedia city and once they showed the food the police forced them to go back to Casablanca where they came from.

In my opinion, I think everyone is free to believe in whatever he wants. If they don’t want to fast then it’s something between them and their God (in case they believe in God) but to provoke all
Muslims and insult their religion by eating during Ramadan in public then it’s a stupid and disrespectful way to express their protest to the fasting law. Strange enough, a lot of Europeans reporters came to Morocco to support the protest and condemned the Moroccan authorities for forcing the Ramadan eaters to go back home.

The European reporters’ interest in this protest is strange for many reasons among which:

The protesters are all Moroccans and they were breaking the Article 222 of the Moroccan Penal Code and they had the right to arrest them. There are non-muslim people who live in Morocco and they practice their religions freely and no one force them to fast Ramadan.

The protest was within the Moroccan territory so the Moroccan authorities had the right to stop it. European journalists did not defend the right of Muslim women to wear the veil and practice their religion freely.

European journalists supported their countries’ law against Muslims; yet, they run to Morocco to support MALI. To sum up with, such a protest was immature and the European reporters who came to support MALI are a bunch of hypocrites.