Selon le fondateur d'un parti islamiste, Rachid al-Ghannouchi, on pourrait créer un modèle pour le monde arabe. D'autres se méfient...
"For more than three decades, Rachid al-Ghannouchi has preached that pluralism, democracy and Islam are harmonious. As his country, Tunisia, heads toward the first elections after the Arab revolts on Sunday, Mr. Ghannouchi, a renowned Islamic thinker, faces a reckoning between his principles and intentions.
Mr. Ghannouchi boldly predicted Wednesday that his Renaissance Party would win a majority in the elections, contested by more than 80 parties, to choose an assembly charged with drafting a constitution for a country that was once one of the Arab world’s most repressive. That would be one of the most startling achievements for an Islamist party in the Arab world since 1992, when the military in Algeria deprived a religious party there of an almost certain electoral victory, igniting a civil war.
Many secularists are bracing for the prospect with foreboding, worried that Islamists will seek more regressive laws on marriage, divorce and inheritance, and encourage — or mirror — the Arab world’s growing cultural conservatism. Mr. Ghannouchi’s many critics draw on fears that democracy will serve as a tool for Islamists to deliver another brand of intolerance.
“We will not be lenient with those who try to manipulate Tunisians,” said Najib Chebbi, the chairman of the largest secular faction, the Progressive Democratic Party.
But Mr. Ghannouchi, long a seminal figure in the Arab and Muslim world, believes that the Arab revolts have allowed the region to imagine a different future. At 70, he walks slower these days and pauses before he answers, aware, it seems, of what this moment represents in the old conflict between political Islam and secular authoritarianism."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/world/africa/rachid-al-ghannouchi-imagines-democratic-future-for-tunisia.html?hp
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