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Rabat - The National Coalition for the Protection of Arabic has reportedly called on Rachid Belmokhtar, Morocco’s Minister of Education, to resign over his recent statements to a journalist at France24 that he does not speak Arabic, Morocco’s official language.
In a statement published on Monday by Alyaoum24 news website, the National Coalition of protection of the Arabic language called on the Minister Rachid Belmokhtar to leave the post he has held since the cabinet reshuffle in 2013.
The coalition consider the Minister’s statement as "really dangerous, given that he is the head of a sensitive ministry, which forms the national identity of the country where Arabic is one of its essential components.”
The statement of the minister to the French journalist “I don’t speak Arabic” caused an uproar on social media. Many social media users criticized the minister with some even calling him an “Illiterate”.
When asked by Alyaoum24, Belmokhtar did not deny the facts, but explained that he did that on purpose.
According to the minister, while attending an official ceremony in Paris, the French reporter spoke to him “in a poor French language and style,” which is “below his own level”.
When the reporter asked for a statement in Arabic, "I told her that I do not know any language, and so I was relieved," the minister said.
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