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sometimes just a simple disliking of Pork even.

Allah and Mohammed was one thing, but why the

constant degradation of the Pig? What did the Pig

ever do to really deserve such treatment? I

considered, perched on the bed. Plenty of

Muslim’s drank, used drugs, but the mere mention

of pork would leave the same sinners up in arms.

But this fixation of togetherness, as opposed to the

singularity of religion being an exclusive personal

entity, caused Ahmed to start living with G and to

his attendance of a contentious prayer group. This

prayer group had a problem: it had been

rumoured that an Imam had a secret affinity for

Pork bought from Rabat, as it was still difficult to

get Pork in Tangiers. G did not take too kindly to

the knowledge of this, especially since this same

Imam had taken it upon himself to call out G on a

few issues relating to this so called ‘prayer

group’—which had been formed in 2001 by G and

an Algerian called Mustapha—with alleged

extremist undercurrents. Though Lucia failed to

explain much about this, what she did say was that

G had quite a reputation around the Mosque,

primarily based around two incidents. The first

involved four other men and the second involved a

Lebanese woman. Regardless of whether either of

these incidents were formless or not, the situation

came to a head one day when G and the Imam,

suspected of loving pork, had an argument in the

Mosque. The day after this, the Imams house was

vandalized. I then assumed that Ahmed had done

this as some sort of initiation, if I remember she

used the word initiation herself. So from this

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