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When I arrived in Japan (Nihon) last year, I was surprised to see that no Japanese has heard of our existence as Kabylians (Kabylian-jin). The majority of the friendly Japanese people (Nihon-jin) with whom I have had the pleasure to talk couldn’t even locate Kabylia and Algeria on the world map. The very small number of Nihon-jin who knows where Algeria is situated say in Japanese, “Algeria wa kita Afrika ni arimas,” (Algeria is located in North Africa). Right! What is pretty funny is that most of them think that Algeria is a desert made of dunes and rocks. As if the word Arab glued by the colonial Arab-Muslim government to Algeria was desertification itself. When I show them pictures of my home country, Kabylia, they usually get mesmerized to discover the beauty of the greenly scenery of the Djurdjura and Yema Gouraya. “Euh! Kirei desu ni!”, (Euh! That’s very beautiful!”). But what do Nihon-jin know about the Kabylian or Algerian people? Nothing. Most of them have only heard or know a little about Morocco, the rest of North Africa remains unknown for them. Like all foreign people around the world, Japanese are also victims of the Algerian Arab-Islamist government lies which present Algerians as Arabs and Berbers (Berber-jin) as nonexistent. As Japanese are curious about Gai-jin (foreigners) in general, I could hardly avoid the exercise of correcting the wrong information they have obtained on Algeria and its people. Most of them don’t understand why a Berber country is renamed Arab and why Berbers are renamed Arabs. I have often contented to respond, “It’s very mozokashi [difficult] to understand why!” But some of them usually come to the conclusion by themselves, “It’s Arab-Islamist colonialism?!” Right!

Here is how I usually describe my native country to the wise Japanese friends. “Kabylia is a region in Algeria situated on the central Mediterranean coast. It covers a surface of 40 000 km2 and has 10 million inhabitants out of a total of 30 million people in Algeria. Like Spanish, French, Italian and Greek people, Kabylians are Mediterranean in culture since the dawn of history. Kabylia is very attractive and its people are as friendly as the Japanese. The Kabylian hospitality is legendary. As a country of mountains and of a temperate climate, Kabylia lends itself to tourism because of the beauty of its coastal sites and its landscape. (Watch video 1 and video 2). With a coast of 200 km, Kabylia would have succeeded to become one of the most prosperous regions in the world if only it could free itself from the traditional opposition of the racist Algerian Anti-Kabylian authorities to its economic development and cultural identity."

One day, a cultural festival, where different Gai-jin residents were invited to participate by displaying some of their cultural specificities (food-cooking and dishes), was organized at the International Community House of Kyoto. When I arrived there, since Kabylia doesn’t yet exist officially, I looked for the Algerian stand hoping to find the smiles, the couscous (a Kabylian or Berber ancestral dish called “Seksu” in Kabylian language) and the sweet Kabylian cakes that I miss too much, but my visit quickly turned to be a sorrow. I was disappointed and even shocked to see in the Algerian stand a woman wearing a hijab; so, I didn’t even go to greet the people there because, for me, any Algerian who ignores his Berber North African civilisation and tolerates a hijab (a fanatical religious Arab-Islamist wear from the West Asian Middle East) is no longer a true Algerian but a destroyer of his ancestral authentic Berber culture and a slave of the colonisers, the totalitarian Arab-Muslims in power since 1962. What revolted me more is that when I moved away from this upsetting show, I picked up and skimmed a leaflet issued by the Algerian Embassy in Tokyo to discover that the colonial Algerian Arab Islamic government continues to lie even abroad, to the Japanese and all foreigners, by writing that “couscous” (or Seksu in Kabylian) is an Arabic word. How can it be an Arab word since Couscous is not an Arab dish? Again, I felt this like violent cultural and political terrorism against my innocent Kabylian people. A cultural genocide against the Berbers in general and the Kabylian in particular is undertaken inside and outside Algeria by the totalitarian and criminal Algerian government. Yes, it’s good to repeat it again, the Arab-Islamic Algerian government, a crual usurpator, is lying and undertaking a genocide against the Kabylian culture and civilisation at home in Algeria and even outside the country. I couldn’t help calling a Kabylian (Kabylian-jin) friend of mine living in Kobe to tell him about the official criminal practice I discovered. Even in Japan! Japanese should no longer believe in the lies of the totalitarian Arab-Islamist Algerian regime which is exceedingly anti-democratic, anti-human-rights, anti-Kabylian and anti-Algerian.

It’s evident that the cultural exchange between Algeria and all foreign countries is biased by the racist and fascist practices of the dishonest diplomacy of the corrupt and tyrannical Algerian Arab-Islamic dictatorship. Since a genocide against the true culture of the true identity of the Berber North-Africa has always been undertaken by the fascist colonial Arab-Islamic governments of this region of the world, all the cultural exchanges or events sponsored by the antihuman Algerian government are therefore biased and never reflect the real situation of the country. The Algerian system of government shaped by an Arab-Muslim criminal mafia may be compared to a web of lies under the management of the black widow (a venomous spider).

As most Japanese people speak only Nihon-go (Japanese language), my Nihon-jin interlocutors are often mesmerized to learn that most Algerian youths speak at least three languages, Berber-go (which may be either Kabyle-go, Chaoui-go, Touareg-go, M’zab-go or Chenoui-go), frensu-go, Algeria no Arab-go (a mixture of Berber and Arabic) and English. And another important finding deserves to be mentioned, I have not known another nation which resembles to Kabylia more than Japan does since Nihon-jin share the same vision of the world with Kabylians. Actually, like Kabylians, they believe that the past (history and traditions) and the present must go hand in hand to guarantee social harmony which ensures peace, a better future and happiness of people’s existence. Moreover, the social and family stratifications are exactly like the Kabylian ones. Discipline, respect for the elders, equality, friendliness, honesty, responsibility and rationalism are among those other social and familial characteristics that Japanese share with Kabylians. A strange natural feeling convinced me that Kabylia would have known the same providence as Japan which is living in peace and economic property if Kabylia was not the hostage of the Algerian totalitarian Arab-Islamist regime since 1962. Another linguistic discovery made me feel very close to Japan and get rid of my homesickness. Yes, as strange as it may sound, Japanese language (Nihon-go) shares a lot of words with the Kabylian language. This amazing discovery made me think of the Dravidian languages which derived from an ancient Berber (Kabylian) language after the settlement of Berber North Africans in India, Asia, around 4000 to 6000 B.C. Even the first written language Sanskrit is believed to be a daughter of a glorious ancient Berber civilisation in Asia. So, I do believe that Japan and Kabylia have already too much in common and have a lot of things to share together. For the sake of their common human, rationalistic and cultural values, Japan and Kabylia should build a true friendship and work hand in hand for the prosperity of their peoples by fostering peace and human rights all over the world. Both nations have too much to offer to each other.

But good things happen to humanity only when it decides to defend its common humanistic values and universal rights with all its strength. That’s why I believe that the 21st century must be rationalistic. Reason must govern the world and humanity must make reason govern within every man. Knowing that all the values common to all mankind are only rationalistic, humanity must set up the universal rational foundations for a future of peace, dignity and freedom for all the peoples of the world. Reason is the only true salvation for humanity. True friendship, peace, freedom, equality, human rights, security and success for all the peoples of the world lie in reason which is our common divine gift.

The current tricky and unfair globalization which sacrifices the peoples of the nations without states and the human rights in most nations with states on the altar of economic interests must be rethought in order to be replaced by true globalization whose goals must be at the service of all the peoples and nations of the world. True globalisation must be that which guarantees peace, freedom, equality, people’s human rights and individual human rights all over the world-in every nation of the world. As I strongly believe in the universality of the humanistic and rationalistic values and the human rights, I have tried hard to find out why a lot of humans all over the world hesitate to participate in the liberation of people from tyranny and I have come to the conclusion that all those (governments or people) who turn their backs on the human rights of other people are whether ignorant, cowards or criminals. I believe that every human being and every human government on this earth has the responsibility to defend the human rights of all the other people of the world without any discrimination or hypocrisy. Indifference towards a crime, wheresoever it takes place, is nothing but a crime itself... Let’s now discover in more details who the Kabylian people are and what they are struggling for and why.

“Kabylians are Berbers, like all the inhabitants of North Africa, that Hegel proposed to link to Europe.”(source) Kabylia, a Mediterranean Berber nation, has been being devoured by the Algerian totalitarian Arab-Islamic government which is using arabisation and islamisation as cultural mass destruction and anti-Kabylian genocidal weapons since the so-called independence in 1962, a year during which the Kabylian people who were at the origin of the anti-colonial revolution (1954-1962) watched helplessly the replacement of the French colonialism by the totalitarian Arab-Islamic colonialism in Algeria. Since then, Kabylians are denied their existence, their language and their cultural and political rights. They are kept as hostages of the fascist Arab-Islamic imperialism whose criminal objective is to make of Kabylia an Arab-Muslim colony and transform its Berber people (Kabylians) to Arab-Muslims. Up to this day, Kabylians are prevented from having their own national television and their own educational system. The Movement of the Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK), a Kabylian organization under the leadership of Ferhat Mehenni, has been struggling “to preserve the identity of the Kabyle people and to recover the control over its destiny,” since “Black Spring” 2001; a tragic season during which 126 Kabylian youths were shot to death by the Algerian Arab-Islamic “insecurity” forces. The MAK main goal is to win back the denied basic human rights of the Kabylian people. To achieve its goal, the Kabylian people’s organization-MAK-which incarnates the true Kabylian nationalist dream has been internationally and locally calling for the establishment of a Kabylian autonomous secular state within Algeria so that Kabylian nation would finally obtain the freedom to choose its own destiny; actually, this is the only peaceful and civilized human solution which would rescue the Kabylian people from a planned extermination and ensure peace, freedom, dignity and prosperity for the their own posterity. Known throughout history to be industrious, peaceful, secular, rational, universally thinking and open to the world, Kabylians deserve to be heard and helped in their struggle for their human rights by all their valiant friends all over the globe. Their struggle is that of the human family to which they belong.

A Kabylian in Japan.