La naissance des "Frères musulmans"

J'aime bien cet article du Los Angeles Times (sous la plume de Jay Winter) qui raconte le contexte historique de l'apparition du Muslim Brotherhood.

Un extrait et le lien:

In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal (later given the last name Ataturk, or father of the Turks) eventually ascended to power. The hero of Gallipoli, who blunted and then defeated the British-French invasion at the straits of the Dardanelles in 1915, Kemal was also the man who thwarted Western plans to partition Turkey into imperial holdings and who rallied the Turkish army to defeat a Greek invasion. The result was a Turkified nation, one in which religion was separated from power. Ataturk's Turkey was committed under his leadership to joining the Western world — in language, in dress, in its commitment to development and to military power. And in this project, Ataturk by and large succeeded. Turkey today is his greatest achievement.

But Ataturk's insistence on a largely secular government also sparked a counter-movement of Muslims who wished to save Islam from the polluting contact with the West. In Egypt, this led to the Muslim Brotherhood.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-winter-muslim-brotherhood-20110314,0,1415367.story