Casablanca blasts: Jews 'feel more Moroccan than ever,' Royal Adviser
Morocco, Politics, 5/22/2003

Adviser to King Mohammed VI, Andre Azoulay, told the British paper The Independent the country had received the active solidarity of a million Moroccan Jews now living abroad

"They tell me they feel more Moroccan than ever," he said. Azoulay, who is Jewish, said he was proud to be able to trace his ancestry back hundreds of years. "We have a long history of openness - I don't like this feeble word tolerance - of welcome to all religions, and it is no accident that the huge Jewish diaspora still see Morocco as the mother country," Azoulay said.

On fears that fight against terrorism affects human rights in the kingdom, Azoulay said "we are committed to democracy, but we must take decisions to protect our democracy against those out to kill it."

Casablanca was rocked last week by terrorist blasts that killed 41 people. Two explosions targeted a club of the Jewish alliance and an old Jewish cemetery.

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