Orphanages in Morocco..Double standards and hypocrisy

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There is currently no way that a child can be legally adopted in Morocco or North Africa. As of March 8th, Orphanages have been shut down that were run by foreign missionaries. They could have warned the parents, instead they deported the house parents who had raised these kids since birth and have not provided other shelter for the children housed there. The reason that many of the kids are there is the societal stigma of being raised by a single parent so many children are forced into these orphanages. Islamist organizations are rallying for these deportations without finding any viable option for these children. It seems extremely hypocritical to rip children away from the only people willing to go out a limb and take care of them and leave them abandoned with no shelter because of a religious conviction. There is nothing wrong with fighting for tradition or a way of life as long as children are not cast into the street and become sex workers and be taken advantage of...This is horrific whats happening to these kids in Morocco right now

Ps I am not Christian. I find this disgusting and hypocritical. Dont take care of the kids and kick out the ones that do

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Moroccan authorities have ordered dozens of foreign Christian aid workers deported in at least five major cities this week, calling into question an unspoken but long-standing truce between missionaries and their Muslim hosts.

.“This is a change in policy from the top of the government,” says Jack Wald, who has spent 10 years as pastor of Rabat International Church, a protestant congregation here in the capital. “It’s like going to sleep, waking up, and all of the sudden you’re in a different country.”

The largest incident took place at an orphanage for 33 abandoned children in the Middle Atlas mountains on Monday. Moroccan police showed up in the village of Ain Leuh, located 50 miles south of the ancient city of Fez, and separated orphans from their adoptive parents before delivering a grim piece of news: the Moroccan authorities had accused the volunteers of spreading Christianity – a crime in this overwhelmingly Muslim nation.

Witnesses described an anguished scene as Dutch, British, Kiwi, and American volunteers hastily emptied households under stormy skies and hugged weeping Moroccan kids for the last time.

“The wind was howling... but that was nothing compared to the wailing of the children,” said one foreign witness, who asked not to be named, saying she feared reprisals from Moroccan authorities. “I’ve never heard a sound like that in my entire life.”

The deportation of aid workers from Morocco highlights both the major role that Christian aid organizations play in a number of Muslim nations and local anxieties that aid efforts are cover for covert proselytizing. On Wednesday, gunmen killed six Pakistani staffers for the Christian aid group World Vision working on a development project for survivors of a 2005 earthquake outside of Islamabad. World Vision spent $1 billion on aid projects around the world in 2009.

Government: It's not just Christians

Moroccan officials say they’re merely targeting isolated instances of law-breaking.

“This is not a move against Christians, it’s a move against people who don’t respect the law of this country,” said Morocco’s Communication Minister Khalid Naciri in a telephone interview.

But Christians see a sudden, coordinated campaign that has reversed an unwritten understanding.

In principle, Christian groups are allowed to do charitable work here so long as they don’t try converting Muslims, who make up 98 percent of the population. In practice, hundreds of foreign Christians have been quietly spreading their faith in Morocco for years, says Jean-Luc Blanc, head of the Casablanca-based Evangelical Church of Morocco.

In the past, Mr. Blanc said the government would typically deport one or two missionaries per year whom it judged to have crossed the line. But in his nine years here, Blanc says he hasn’t seen a mass expulsion like this. “Since I’ve been in Morocco, never,” he said.

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no, the people that were taking care of these children behaved irresponsibly, thought they could flout the law just because they wanted to, and now these children get to suffer FURTHER because of their own bloody arrogance. it seems extremely hypocritical to come into someone else's country and thumb your nose at their laws, regardless of whether you think those laws are just or not when said actions cause the very people they are purporting to want to help further upheaval in their already miserable lives. typically in the past, it's taken a lot of effort to get yr ####### thrown out of the country for this offense.

and don't let it go unsaid just how much those thrown out stand to benefit from this incident. notoriously, incidents like this generate sizable upticks in donations. it can be a big moneymaker. some of these groups really thrive on this kind of thing, getting everyone back home in their churches frothing at the mouth over perceived persecutions under every rock.

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no, the people that were taking care of these children behaved irresponsibly, thought they could flout the law just because they wanted to, and now these children get to suffer FURTHER because of their own bloody arrogance. it seems extremely hypocritical to come into someone else's country and thumb your nose at their laws, regardless of whether you think those laws are just or not when said actions cause the very people they are purporting to want to help further upheaval in their already miserable lives. typically in the past, it's taken a lot of effort to get yr ####### thrown out of the country for this offense.

and don't let it go unsaid just how much those thrown out stand to benefit from this incident. notoriously, incidents like this generate sizable upticks in donations. it can be a big moneymaker. some of these groups really thrive on this kind of thing, getting everyone back home in their churches frothing at the mouth over perceived persecutions under every rock.

I agree. These people were aware of the laws and decided not to follow them. If people did that in America we would throw them out too.