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SNJT : bas les masques, arrêtons la comédie !!


Curieux paradoxe, l’adjectif « lâche » a aussi un sens….propre !
Il signifie : méprisable, abject, infâme.
Mais il a, aussi, un sens figuré qui veut dire : flasque, mou, inconsistant.
Les journalistes tunisiens, présents à la réunion qui a eu lieu, mercredi 25 juin 2008, au siège de leur nouveau syndicat, s’interrogent encore lequel de ces deux [...]


28Jun2008 | Candide | 0 comments | Continued
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Tunisie : torture, détention illégale et procès inéquitables


Des centaines, voire des milliers de jeunes gens, y compris d’enfants, suspectés de crimes de terrorisme, ont été arrêtés en Tunisie ces cinq dernières années. Nombres d’entre eux ont été torturés, ont subi de mauvais traitements, ont été détenus au secret et soumis à des disparitions forcées.


19Jun2008 | Amnesty International | 0 comments | Continued
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Rien de grave, juste la mort d’un “élément perturbateur”


La consigne officielle depuis janvier, était de ne souffler mot des manifestations du bassin minier, jusqu’au débordement de vendredi où la police a commencé à tirer sur la foule tuant au passage un jeune et blessant cinq autres.
Ce sordide dénouement qui a commencé à attirer l’attention des médias étrangers a contraint enfin le gouvernement [...]


8Jun2008 | Blog de Z | 0 comments | Continued
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Why Shariah?


In fact, for most of its history, Islamic law offered the most liberal and humane legal principles available anywhere in the world. Today, when we invoke the harsh punishments prescribed by Shariah for a handful of offenses, we rarely acknowledge the high standards of proof necessary for their implementation. Before an adultery conviction can typically be obtained, for example, the accused must confess four times or four adult male witnesses [...]


17Mar2008 | Noah Feldman | 0 comments | Continued
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From Islam as an Identity to Secular Politics


A religious intellectual is more concerned with religious truths than with religion as an identity. The Islam of religious intellectuals is the Islam of truths and the question of an identity is peripheral to this. A religious intellectual must, first and foremost, concern himself with faith, religious experience, differing religious readings and creating [...].

22Oct2006 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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“Islam versus the West” and the Political Thought of AbdolKarim Soroush


The internal crisis in the Muslim world today, both in Muslim-majority states and in the Muslim communities in the West, is grave and complex. In this context, AbdolKarim Soroush’s views and analysis are cogent, logical, and highly relevant. Extremist forces in the Muslim world can only be defeated if progressive forces both in the West and in the Islamic [...].

5May2006 | Hassan Abbas | 0 comments | Continued
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The Anti-Imperialist Left Confronted with Islam


Whether the unbelievers can freely express themselves is obviously another question. Often they can’t, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. As is the case here, religion is not the central element in the life of Muslims. People work, eat, make love, build families. Some go to the mosque, others don’t. Exactly like in other parts of the world. The d [...].

13Apr2006 | Tariq Ali | 0 comments | Continued
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(2) Islamist Movements And The Democratic Process In The Arab World :


Regional and international developments after September 11, 2001, have helped consolidate liberal trends in the Islamist spectrum, both because the movements themselves are not immune to the new discourse about democracy permeating the Arab world and because most authoritarian governments in the region have felt pressure to introduce a modicum of reforms, [...].

12Mar2006 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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(3) Islamist Movements And The Democratic Process In The Arab World :


In discussions with skeptical liberals probing their commitment to democracy and human rights, mainstream Islamist movements often assert that the differences between their ideas and those of their interlocutors are minor, hinging at most on a few points. But these few points, the gray zones where the thinking of Islamists is ambiguous, are crucial ; depen [...].

12Mar2006 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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(4) Islamist Movements And The Democratic Process In The Arab World :


Uncertainty is a fact of life in politics. It is a defining feature of democratic politics. Evidence from the research leading to this analysis suggests that the reformist currents in the Islamist movement are real, that they are becoming much more sophisticated and flexible in their thinking, and that recent political success in some countries is increasi [...].

12Mar2006 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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(1) Islamist Movements And The Democratic Process In The Arab World :


During the last decade, Islamist movements have established themselves as major political players in the Middle East. Together with the governments, Islamist movements, moderate as well as radical, will determine how the politics of the region unfold in the foreseeable future. They have shown the ability not only to craft messages with widespread popular a [...].

12Mar2006 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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Whether by the Fire of Freedom or by the Fire of Zeal


It seems that today the right to freedom of expression has turned into a duty to defile and desecrate Muhammad’s name. It would be impossible to vandalize freedom more viciously than this. Muslims detect a whiff of vilification and conspiracy, and see it as an act of hostility. They believe that a collusion and conjunction between secularism and fundamen [...].

22Feb2006 | Abdolkarim Soroush | 0 comments | Continued
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Islam’s Crisis of Authority


Unlike Catholicism with the Vatican and the pope, Islam has no central authority. And the recent furor over Muslim cartoons in Europe has exposed this void even more clearly. Richard Bulliet, author of “The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization,” explains that this void in authority in Islam is only increasing as Muslims reach out to various people and in [...].

17Feb2006 | Richard W. Bulliet | 0 comments | Continued
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Political Islam


The contrasts between different varieties of Islam, and Islamism, are not trivial—either in their teachings or the behaviour they inspire. The western world needs to know about them, if only to know which outcomes and shifts of policy are conceivable, and which are not. But woe betide any western strategist who thinks the problems of the Muslim world can b [...].

13Feb2006 | The Economist | 0 comments | Continued
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