Ce matin sur France-Culture, M. Olivier Roy, islamologue distingué, était invité à nous parler du Printemps arabe. Je dois dire que son propos a eu l'immense mérite de décrisper le quadragénaire finissant blanc que je suis et qui s'inquiète un peu de voir de la Syrie au Maroc, en passant par l'Egypte et la Tunisie, les Frères musulmans prendre le pouvoir. Paranoïa que tout cela ! Monsieur Roy a balayé dous les fantasmes nauséabonds qui encombrent encore ma pauvre tête :"Ces gens sont similaires à nos braves démocrates-chrétiens d'Europe, un peu conservateur certes mais guère plus que le Vatican et la droite religieuse américaine". Je partis au travail rassuré. A peine arrivé, voulant m'informer des évolutions de la situation en Egypte, je tapais sur le site des actualités googlienne le nom de Mohamed Badie, le chef des Frères égyptiens. Et je tombais sur ceci, une déclaration publique datant de décembre dernier (reproduite sur un site d'information américain probablement néoconservateur), qui a contribué à me recrisper :
Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Says Caliphate is Near
The Muslim Brotherhood is close to achieving the “ultimate goal” set by the group's founder Hassan al-Banna in 1928, which is the establishment of a “just and reasonable regime.”
The project begins with the creation of a sound government and ends with the establishment of a just Islamic caliphate, said Mohamed Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on Thursday, in his weekly message on the group’s official website.
When the group first began its mission, it aimed at guiding and awakening the nation so that it could regain its position after a long period of delay and recession, said Badie.
He went on to describe the two key aims outlined by Banna at the group's sixth conference. The first objective was to increase group membership numbers. The second was the establishment of a long-term plan for the reform of all aspects of people's lives.
Banna specified stages through which the ultimate purpose could be achieved, said Badie. The first step is the reform of the individual, then building, in order, sound family units, a society, and a governance system, and finally establishing a caliphate system.
In this Thursday message, the supreme guide linked the Arab Spring to the ultimate aims of the Brotherhood, saying that the uprisings were intent on achieving specific targets, on which they refused to compromise.
I predicted here last week that calls for the return of the Caliphate would intensify in 2012 and have been warning about this movement now for months. Again, the only question might be, who will lead it?
JGL, JGL, rassurez-moi !