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Intéressante remarque sur l’émergence des salafistes en Tunisie, non pas en situation de répression (comme le veut généralement la théorie), mais en situation de plus grande liberté politique : Book Review – Alison Pargeter’s ‘Return to the Shadows’
▻http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2016/12/12/book-review-alison-pargeters-return-to-the-shadows

As Pargeter explains, ‘An-Nahda found itself making compromise after compromise, with the result that it started to look like an Islamist party that was ruling without Islam’ (pp. 215–216). That the Brotherhood’s pragmatism and moderation of its political and social agenda have led to the emergence of more conservative, Salafi-inspired groups is an important change in the region, with major political implications. Indeed, these groups emerged not in situations of repression, but when greater political freedom was granted (p. 226), and their political trajectory will be interesting to follow in the coming years, given that they have not been maligned as much as has the Brotherhood in recent years.

State might collapse if El-Sisi doesn’t become president : Nour Party head - Ahram Online

▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/101831.aspx

State might collapse if El-Sisi doesn’t become president: Nour Party head
Ahram Online speaks with the head of the Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist party to support Egyptian former army chief’s presidential bid

#Morocco jails six men accused of homosexuality
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/morocco-jails-six-men-accused-homosexuality

A Moroccan court has jailed six men for up to three years on various charges including “homosexuality,” a rights group told AFP on Wednesday. The Moroccan government is led by a moderate Islamist party. Gay sex is illegal, punishable by a maximum three years in prison in the North African country. The six defendants were convicted on Monday of accusations ranging from “homosexuality, inciting prostitution, mediating in prostitution and being drunk in public,” said Ahmed Amin Chaabi, from the Moroccan League for the Defense of Human Rights. read more

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Clashes break out during Tunisian protest over economic hardship
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/clashes-break-out-during-tunisian-protest-over-economic-hardship

Clashes broke out Wednesday in central #Tunisia between police and demonstrators protesting economic hardship, as discontent mounts over new taxes and government failure to improve living conditions, three years after an uprising. Dozens of protesters tried to force their way into the offices of the ruling Islamist party al-Nahda in the town of Kasserine, but police drove them back with teargas, an AFP journalist reported. read more

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Libyan assembly votes to base all legislation on sharia
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/libyan-assembly-votes-base-all-legislation-sharia

Libya’s national assembly voted on Wednesday to make sharia - Islamic law - the basis of all legislation and for state institutions in a decision that may impact banking, criminal and financial laws. Two years after the NATO-backed uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, #Libya is still undergoing a messy transition, with no new constitution and its temporary assembly caught in deadlock between an Islamist party and political rivals. Libya has seen fierce debate over the role of Islam in its new democracy with the rise of hardline Islamists long oppressed by Gaddafi. read more

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Tunisian crisis talks deadlocked over PM selection
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tunisian-crisis-talks-deadlocked-over-pm-selection

#Tunisia's ruling Islamist party al-Nahda and the opposition were deadlocked in talks Saturday to choose a new prime minister tasked with steering the country out of a months-long political crisis. Tensions have gripped the country since the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and were exacerbated with the murder this year of two opposition politicians by suspected radical Islamists. read (...)

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#Tunisia : New Details in Opposition Assassination Point to Libyan Islamist
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tunisia-new-details-opposition-assassination-point-libyan-islamis

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Protesters shout slogans and hold up portraits of assassinated Tunisian opposition figure #chokri_belaid during a demonstration in Tunis on 2 October 2013 organised to pressure the ruling Islamist party to tell the truth on the attack blamed on radical Islamists. AFP - Fethi Belaid) Protesters shout slogans and hold up portraits of assassinated Tunisian opposition figure Chokri Belaid during a demonstration in Tunis on 2 October 2013 organised to (...)

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Al-Nahda agrees to roadmap to solve Tunisian political crisis
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/al-nahda-agrees-roadmap-solve-tunisian-political-crisis

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A picture taken on 19 September 2013 shows the Tunisian constituent assembly meeting to discuss security issues following the assassination of an opposition leader late July. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)

#Tunisia's ruling Islamist party announced Friday it has accepted an ambitious roadmap proposed by mediators to form a government of technocrats and resolve the country’s two-month-old political crisis. “Al-Nahda announces after examining the proposal... its (...)

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Egypte : Les salafistes d’Al Nour quittent persque tous le comité de révision de la Constitution, il n’y a donc presque plus d’islamistes dans le groupe

▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/16/us-egypt-constitution-nour-idUSBRE98F0RM20130916

Egypt’s second biggest Islamist party on Monday walked out of a committee amending the constitution, to protest against moves to curb the influence of Islam in state affairs.

Black Bloc must die, say Jihad and Jama’a al-Islamiya | anarchistnews dot org
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The Islamist party of the Jihad Organization and Jama’a al-Islamiya has said the ways of dealing with banditry specified in the Quran must be applied to Black Bloc members, which means they must be killed.

“God orders us to kill, crucify or cut off the hands and feet of those who spread mischief on earth,” said Jama’a al-Islamiya Mufti Abdel Akhar Hammad, citing a verse from the Quran. “The president must give that order.”

Mohamed Samra of the Jihad Organization said that the Black Bloc group is financed from abroad and must be killed, and that the National Salvation Front members must be arrested and charged with incitement to riot.

Tunisia’s Student Salafis - By Monica Marks | The Middle East Channel
►http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/06/tunisias_student_salafis

The niqab dispute at Manouba has acquired a politically polarized and ideological tone. Ms. Grami, like many of the professors at yesterday’s demonstration, places much of the blame for the Salafis’ rise squarely on the shoulders of Ennahdha, the center-right Islamist party that won a plurality of the vote in October’s elections. “At the end of the day, this is Rachid Ghannouchi’s decision,” said Ms. Grami, pushing her black bangs away from her sunglasses. “Ennahdha has created an environment where these people feel comfortable imposing their will on us.”

Said Ferjani, an official spokesperson for Ennahdha Party, said that Manouba must find a solution to the niqab dispute “without infringing in any shape or form on a woman’s fundamental right to choose her own clothing.” The niqab debate and controversy over women wearing skimpy bikinis on Tunisian beaches, Mr. Ferjani said, “are two sides of the same issue. We live within the dynamics of a fledgling democracy, and we must respect democratic principles.”

For some students, the standoff at Manouba represents little more than a frustratingly alarmist tug of war over largely irrelevant issues of “Tunisian identity.” "We, the students, are the losers" said Houda, a head-scarved 21-year-old who attended yesterday’s anti-niqab demonstration purely out of curiosity. “We want to return to our studies without thinking of any ideology. These girls who wear niqab are just as Tunisian as all the people here.”

Contrairement à l’idée promue par la publicité politique, le vote et la démocratie ne sont pas des concepts interchangeables. Ici, des démocrates sont persécutés pour avoir revendiqué le droit de ne pas voter :
►http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/amid-the-trappings-of-democracy-moroccans-prepare-to-vote/article2248541

Like people elsewhere in the Arab world, Moroccans hit the streets in the first half of 2011 calling for more democracy, and King Mohammed VI responded by amending the constitution and bringing forward the election.

But since then the sense of change has dissipated.

The real challenge for these polls, in which an opposition Islamist party and a pro-palace coalition are expected to do well, will be getting people to vote in the face of a strident boycott campaign by democracy campaigners.

U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said that since Oct. 20 the government has taken more than 100 activists in for questioning for advocating a boycott.