| (Tuesday, October 1, 2002) page memories of Roger Garaudy Prison Ayn Serrar be razed |
| recent weeks, everyone speaks of Aïn-Serrar in Djelfa, a large ghetto was razed Thursday. A large operation in which the Interior Minister Zerhouni will kick-off. The inhabitants of the famous district have indeed benefited from all units in the great city El Wiam. But the rub is that this neighborhood is home to a famous historical site in the region could disappear. Moreover A letter sent by the representative of the National Historic Sites in Djelfa, all local officials to preserve this site. It is a prison where the famous French humanist and philosopher Roger Garaudy was imprisoned and tortured and that, following his anti-colonialist political positions. ... Lotfi G. ______________________________________________________________  Early the Second World War, Garaudy is considered by the authorities of the Vichy regime as a revolutionary propaganda. It therefore affects the "Seventh DINA (Infantry Division North Africa) in Algeria, bordering the Sahara. Alongside Arabs from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, will be resistant to fight fascism that was sent to fight to the most deadly. On 4 March 1941, when a convoy of foreign volunteers came to join them, Garaudy, and all of its refractory camp, offend against the French commander of retreat into their marabout. They sing "In front of Life" ... The commander, unable to censor protest this pulse gives the order to take custody. Garaudy, just for a moment, believes he will die. Waiting fades into silence. The notion of living the present moment takes on another meaning, and how, to postpone, now, what can be done now. He was only twenty-eight years. But they will not shoot. These men, "Ibadi," are part of a Muslim sect. Their religious beliefs have earned them, a thousand years ago, to be prosecuted to the Sahara. In response to the call of God they live, since, in this hostile environment. Garaudy told them: "These fans of God made us to live: it is contrary to the honor of Muslim warriors South a gunman shoots at an unarmed man. They had before us the experience of transcendence experienced. " Roger Garaudy, My turn of the century alone: Memories, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1989, p. 66 .  ---- -------- "Allah guides to His light whomsoever he wills" (Qur'an 24:35). At the level of secondary causes, however, there are many reasons why a Western intellectual might embrace Islam. In the case of the French Marxist philosopher Roger Garaudy, who was born in 1914 and converted in 1982 when he was 68 years old, the key factors were arguably his conviction that Western society is based on a false understanding of man, and his own life-long quest for transcendence... Factors which played a part in Garaudy's conversion During the Second World War, Garaudy was interned with other Communists and spent nearly three years in prison camps in North Africa. On one occasion, when he was in a camp in Djelfa in southern Algeria, he and his fellow prisoners were saved from summary execution because the Arab guards defied orders to shoot them. He subsequently learned that they owed their lives to the fact that the guards were Ibadi Muslims whose religion forbade them to fire at unarmed men. Their unconditional obedience to a higher authority than their French commandant deeply impressed him and prepared the ground for his conversion over forty years later... |
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