Tahar Ben Jelloun

In 1987, during an interview, Tahar Ben Jelloun, a Moroccan writer and poet, was asked about the great people he admired. He started with his mother, the thing I appreciate so much. Then, he moved on to talk about King Hassan the second, and began to whitewash him, saying that he was someone he highly held in estimation and someone he respected so much. Notwithstanding, during a recent interview with Ben Jelloun about the current Arab revolutions, he intervened to say that for him King Hassan the second was like Mubarak, the toppled Egyptian president, and that torture and social injustice were what characterized Hassan's regime too. The conclusion I have come to here is that Tahar Ben Jelloun and his likes are hypocrites just like those who are whitewashing Mohamed the sixth at present. I only hope other hypocrites of today will not make the same mistake with our current king.