{"id":17733,"date":"2006-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunisnews.net\/3-novembre-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T00:00:00","slug":"3-novembre-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunisnews.net\/ar\/3-novembre-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"3 novembre 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><head><meta content=\"text\/html\" description=\"    Ce matin, le juge cantonal de La Mannouba a prononc\u00e9 un jugement condamnant     l'ex-prisonnier politique, le docteur Lamine Zidi, \u00e0 une peine de quinze     jours d'emprisonnement pour infraction aux dispositions administratives, en     vertu de l'article 150 du code p\u00e9nal, apr\u00e8s qu'il ait \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 devant le     parquet sans avoir pu \u00eatre repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par un avocat.\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\/><\/head><body><body><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" dir=\"ltr\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/tunisnews.net\/ar\/\"><span>Home<\/span><span lang=\"FR-CH\"> &#8211; Accueil <\/span><span>&#8211; <\/span><span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div> <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div> <font face=\"Arial\"> <\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#efefef\" width=\"100%\"> <span lang=\"AR-SA\"> <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">  <\/div>\n<div> <span lang=\"FR\"> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" dir=\"ltr\"> <font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\"> <span lang=\"SV\"> <strong>TUNISNEWS<\/strong><\/span> <\/font><\/font> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" dir=\"ltr\"> <strong><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\">                  7\u00a0\u00e8me\u00a0ann\u00e9e, <span lang=\"FR\">N\u00b0\u00a02356 du 03.11.2006<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" dir=\"ltr\"> <strong> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <b><span><blink> <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0archives :                    <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/tunisnews.net\/ar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\" target=\"_blank\">                    www.tunisnews.net<\/font><\/a><\/blink><\/span><\/b><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <\/font> <\/div>\n<p> <\/strong><\/div>\n<p> <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" dir=\"ltr\"> <font> <span lang=\"FR\"> <font><span lang=\"FR\"> <font face=\"Arial\"> <span lang=\"FR-CH\"> <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font> <\/div>\n<p><font> <\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><font> <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"> <span lang=\"FR\"> <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p> <strong><font><\/p>\n<p><font>AISPP: Le cycle de l&rsquo;injustice &#8211; Le Docteur Lamine                             Zidi, nouvelle victime de l&rsquo;\u00e9tau du contr\u00f4le                             administratif<\/font><\/p>\n<p>                             l\u2019ACAT: Cas de Hichem Ben Sa\u00efd Ben Frej Saadi \/                             lettre au Ministre de la Justice                             <\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: red;\"><font>Abdelhamid Sgha\u00efer: Suspension                             de la gr\u00e8ve de la faim<\/font><\/h2>\n<p>                             Luiza Toscane: Pas de r\u00e9pit pour Mohammed Abbou                             <\/p>\n<p><font>Massaoud Romdhani et Samir Ben                             Rayana : Kairouan : Silence ! On pr\u00e9carise le                             travail<\/font><\/p>\n<p>                             Le Figaro: Philippe De Villiers : \u00ab\u00a0Interdire le                             voile dans tous les lieux publics\u00a0\u00bb                             <\/p>\n<p><font>Reuters:\u00a0 France &#8211; Villiers                             veut interdire le voile dans les lieux publics<\/font><\/p>\n<p>                             AFP: Les musulmanes doivent pouvoir d\u00e9cider de                             porter ou non le voile (Khatami)                             <\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: red;\"><font>AFP: 72 employ\u00e9s (Musulmans,                             NDLR) d&rsquo;un a\u00e9roport parisien \u00e9cart\u00e9s<\/font><\/h2>\n<p>                             Babnet,: Les tunisiens d\u2019Al Jazeera                             <\/p>\n<p><font>Reporters sans frontieres:                             Al-Jazira f\u00eate ses dix ans : une libert\u00e9 de ton                             parfois cher pay\u00e9e<\/font><\/p>\n<p>                             Le Monde : Al-Jazira a pour ambition de conqu\u00e9rir                             une audience mondiale                             <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font>Ikhwanweb :                             Al-Ghannoushi : Ben Ali&rsquo;s regime aims to destroy                             Tunisian people<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><font><span lang=\"FR\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p> <\/font><font> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"> <font><b> <span lang=\"FR\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nawaat.org\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=11741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cliquez         ici<\/a> pour acc\u00e9der au reportage exceptionnel de l&rsquo;AISPP sur la         catastrophe humanitaire des prisonniers politiques Tunisiens<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"> <span lang=\"FR\">Voir         \u00e9galement les documents vid\u00e9o:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b> <span lang=\"FR\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nawaat.org\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=12171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Cri         De D\u00e9tresse De La Famille Du Prisonnier Politique Fathi Issaoui<\/a>  \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b> <span lang=\"FR\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nawaat.org\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=12381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nouveau         t\u00e9moignage vid\u00e9o de l&rsquo;AISPP<\/a> sur les multiples condamnations pour les         m\u00eames faits en Tunisie.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0(Source\u00a0:        <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nawaat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span> <strong>www.nawaat.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<p> <\/font><\/div>\n<div> <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><strong>Association     Internationale de Soutien aux Prisonniers Politiques<\/strong><\/font>     33 rue Mokhtar Atya, 1001, Tunis          Tunis le 2 novembre 2006          <strong><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Le cycle de l&rsquo;injustice :     Le Docteur Lamine Zidi, nouvelle victime de l&rsquo;\u00e9tau du contr\u00f4le administratif<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/strong> \u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">    \u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">    Ce matin, le juge cantonal de La Mannouba a prononc\u00e9 un jugement condamnant     l&rsquo;ex-prisonnier politique, le docteur Lamine Zidi, \u00e0 une peine de quinze     jours d&#8217;emprisonnement pour infraction aux dispositions administratives, en     vertu de l&rsquo;article 150 du code p\u00e9nal, apr\u00e8s qu&rsquo;il ait \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 devant le     parquet sans avoir pu \u00eatre repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par un avocat.     Le docteur Lamine Zidi, ex prisonnier politique, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 incarc\u00e9r\u00e9 en 1992     et condamn\u00e9 par le tribunal militaire permanent de Tunis dans l&rsquo;affaire     76110 pour appartenance au mouvement de La Nahdha \u00e0 une peine     d&#8217;emprisonnement de vingt et un ans \u00e0 l&rsquo;issue d&rsquo;un proc\u00e8s n&rsquo;ayant pas     respect\u00e9 les standarts d&rsquo;un proc\u00e8s \u00e9quitable, selon les observateurs et les     organisations internationales qui avaient suivi le proc\u00e8s.     L&rsquo;ex prisonnier Lamine Zidi a effectu\u00e9 plus de quinze ans de prison et a \u00e9t\u00e9     lib\u00e9r\u00e9 le 25 f\u00e9vrier 2006. Depuis sa lib\u00e9ration, il a endur\u00e9 le calvaire du     contr\u00f4le administratif, le ministre de la Justice ayant promulgu\u00e9 un d\u00e9cret     \u00e0 son encontre le pla\u00e7ant d&rsquo;office sous contr\u00f4le administratif d\u00e8s sa sortie     de prison pour une dur\u00e9e de cinq ans.     Le docteur Lamine Zidi qui travaille en tant que m\u00e9decin interne \u00e0 l&rsquo;h\u00f4pital     avait \u00e9t\u00e9 soumis arbitraitement et ill\u00e9galement \u00e0 un \u00e9margement au poste de     police de la Mannouba.          L&rsquo;AISPP     1) Exige des autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes sa lib\u00e9ration imm\u00e9diate, l&rsquo;arr\u00eat des     tracasseries polici\u00e8res impos\u00e9es \u00e0 Lamine Zidi et sa famille ainsi que son     droit \u00e0 circuler comme le garantit la loi     2) D\u00e9nonce les tracasseries impos\u00e9es aux prisonniers lib\u00e9r\u00e9s qui se voient     priv\u00e9s de leurs droits \u00e9l\u00e9mentaires, notamment la libert\u00e9 de circulation, le     droit au travail et aux \u00e9tudes, et le retour \u00e0 la case prison pour nombre     d&rsquo;entre eux sous le pr\u00e9texte d&rsquo;infraction aux dispositions r\u00e9gissant le     contr\u00f4le administratif.     3) Exprime sa solidarit\u00e9 envers tous ces ex prisonniers et exige l&rsquo;arr\u00eat des     tracasseries \u00e0 leur endroit.          Pour l&rsquo;Association     Le Pr\u00e9sident, ma\u00eetre Mohammed Nouri     (traduction ni revue ni corrig\u00e9e par les auteurs de la version en arabe, LT) \u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <strong><font>l\u2019ACAT<\/font><\/strong> \u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Monsieur le Ministre de la Justice     Bechir Tekkari     Minist\u00e8re de la Justice et des droits de l&rsquo;Homme     57 boulevard Bab Benat     Tunis, Tunisienne     Fax : 00 216 71 568 106          le 3 novembre 2006          Monsieur le Ministre,          Membre de l\u2019ACAT, je suis particuli\u00e8rement choqu\u00e9(e) par la torture et les     traitements inhumains dont est victime <strong><font>Hichem     Ben Sa\u00efd Ben Frej Saadi<\/font>.<\/strong> Ce dernier a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 le 11 juin     2006 et maintenu 25 jours en garde \u00e0 vue, hors des d\u00e9lais de 6 jours maximum     pr\u00e9vus par l&rsquo;article 13 bis du Code de proc\u00e9dure p\u00e9nale tunisien. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9     d\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 le 10 octobre 2006 devant le juge d\u2019instruction du Tribunal de     premi\u00e8re instance de Tunis. Son avocat, Me Abderraouf Ayadi, a alors     constat\u00e9 les conditions de sant\u00e9 alarmantes de son client dues \u00e0 la torture     dont il a \u00e9t\u00e9 victime. Hichem Ben Sa\u00efd Ben Frej Saadi a d&rsquo;ailleurs tent\u00e9 de     s&rsquo;enfuir par la fen\u00eatre du tribunal lors de cette s\u00e9ance.           Je vous demande de respecter vos engagements internationaux en           garantissant l\u2019int\u00e9grit\u00e9 physique et psychologique de Hichem Frej Saadi Ben     Sa\u00efd Ben, et en ouvrant une enqu\u00eate ind\u00e9pendante sur les tortures dont il     all\u00e8gue avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 victime lors des 25 jours de garde \u00e0 vue ill\u00e9gale auxquels     il a \u00e9t\u00e9 soumis ;      en faisant en sorte que Hichem Frej Saadi Ben Sa\u00efd Ben puisse avoir acc\u00e8s \u00e0     des soins m\u00e9dicaux dans les plus brefs d\u00e9lais.          Veuillez recevoir, Monsieur le Ministre, l\u2019_expression de notre plus haute     consid\u00e9ration.           Pour le p\u00f4le actions     Nicole Pignon P\u00e9guy          CC : Ambassade de Tunisie en France 25 rue Barbet de Jouy 75007 Paris<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">    \u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">         Au nom de Dieu Seul     <strong><font>Communiqu\u00e9<\/font><\/strong> <font face=\"Arial\"><strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font>Suspension de la     gr\u00e8ve de la faim<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong> \u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n<p> <\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">    \u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">    Tunis, le 2 novembre          Moi, Abdelhamid Sgha\u00efer, \u00e9tudiant en troisi\u00e8me cycle, au 21 \u00e8me jour de ma     gr\u00e8ve de la faim de protestation\u00a0 1) contre mon proc\u00e8s exp\u00e9ditif, mont\u00e9     parce que j&rsquo;avais d\u00e9fendu des coll\u00e8gues \u00e9tudiantes voil\u00e9es contre     l&rsquo;interdiction qui leur avait \u00e9t\u00e9 faite d&rsquo;entrer \u00e0 la fac de sciences de     Tunis le 11 octobre, 2) pour r\u00e9clamer que me soit d\u00e9livr\u00e9 un passeport,          Vu,          *L&rsquo;avis des m\u00e9decins qui ont suivi mon \u00e9tat de sant\u00e9          *Le souhait formul\u00e9 par des personnalit\u00e9s nationales, des droits de l&rsquo;homme     et mes amis          *la promesse re\u00e7ue des autorit\u00e9s de me voir d\u00e9livrer un passeport le 3     novembre          Annonce :          Que je suspends ma gr\u00e8ve de la faim     Que je revendique \u00e0 mon droit \u00e0 un proc\u00e8s \u00e9quitable en appel contre le     jugement en premi\u00e8re instance     Et je salue toutes les personnalit\u00e9s, les d\u00e9tenteurs de sites internet, mes     amis et tous ceux qui m&rsquo;ont exprim\u00e9 leur solidarit\u00e9 et se sont tenus \u00e0 mes     c\u00f4t\u00e9s.          <strong><font>Abdelhamid Sgha\u00efer<\/font><\/strong>     Tel : 00 216 97 080 718          absghaier@yahoo.fr          <font>(traduction ni revue ni corrig\u00e9e par l&rsquo;auteur de la     version en arabe, LT)<\/font><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<p> <font> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">Pas de r\u00e9pit pour Mohammed Abbou<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         La tension est quelque peu retomb\u00e9e sur le domicile de Mohammed Abbou. Apr\u00e8s     des journ\u00e9es d&rsquo;une tension extr\u00eame d\u00fbe \u00e0 une pr\u00e9sence massive de la police     politique encerclant le domicile du prisonnier, contr\u00f4lant les visiteurs et     les dissuadant ou leur interdisant d&rsquo;approcher et de rentrer, le dispositif     policier a \u00e9t\u00e9 all\u00e9g\u00e9 et Samia Abbou et ses enfants ont pu r\u00e9int\u00e9grer leur     logement d&rsquo;El Ouardia.<\/p>\n<p>     Mais la pression ne s&rsquo;est pas rel\u00e2ch\u00e9e \u00e0 la prison du Kef. Mohammed Abbou     dort toujours sur une paillasse de fer, depuis que son matelas lui a \u00e9t\u00e9     retir\u00e9 en mars de cette ann\u00e9e. En d\u00e9pit de ses demandes r\u00e9it\u00e9r\u00e9es, il n&rsquo;a     pas \u00e9t\u00e9 chang\u00e9 de cellule et subit le harc\u00e8lement incessant de ses     co-d\u00e9tenus. Il est sujet depuis des mois \u00e0 de violentes douleurs r\u00e9nales et     le m\u00e9decin se contente de lui administrer des calmants inop\u00e9rants. Sa     famille et lui-m\u00eame r\u00e9clament en vain qu&rsquo;il puisse faire des analyses     m\u00e9dicales et passer des radios.          <strong><font>Luiza Toscane<\/font><\/strong>     3 novembre 2006 \u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">Kairouan : Silence ! On pr\u00e9carise le     travail.<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Le sit-in des ouvriers de l\u2019h\u00f4tel Continental r\u00e9siste \u00e0 la loi du talion. Il     n\u2019est ni le premier sit-in (souvenons \u2013nous\u00a0 de celui de l\u2019usine de Jannet \u00e0     Haffouz\u00a0 l\u2019ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re et celui de l\u2019 usine ISUZU cette ann\u00e9e ) ni     sera-t-il\u00a0 le dernier, tant que la pr\u00e9carit\u00e9 ne cesse de s\u2019\u00e9riger en syst\u00e8me     et que le silence des autorit\u00e9s publiques ne cesse de se traduire en     complicit\u00e9 .<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Ce qui est en train de se passer dans cet h\u00f4tel est un \u00e9chantillon\u00a0 des     relations de travail qui caract\u00e9rise un \u00e9conomie qui se veut mondialis\u00e9e ou\u2019     la privatisation est synonyme de pr\u00e9carit\u00e9.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Ainsi, la pr\u00e9carit\u00e9 qui pr\u00e9vaut dans cet h\u00f4tel autorise son directeur de se     laisser guider par son humeur lunatique et de d\u00e9clarer aux ouvriers \u00ab Ici,     je fais ce que je veux ! La loi c\u2019est moi, je vous pi\u00e9tinerai sous mes pieds..     \u00bb<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Ce comportement qui ne cesse de se g\u00e9n\u00e9raliser pose la question du respect     de la loi, du code de travail et du r\u00f4le r\u00e9gulateur de l\u2019Etat.     Un Etat qui se respecte, autant il se d\u00e9sengage au profit du priv\u00e9, autant     il fixe des r\u00e8gles de contr\u00f4le prudentielles tendant \u00e0 abriter les conflits.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         La d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration des conditions de travail a commenc\u00e9 dans cet h\u00f4tel quand     le directeur a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de licencier abusivement une ouvri\u00e8re \u2013 membre du     syndicat \u2013 sans motif apparent sauf des bobards qui lui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 parvenus :     cette ouvri\u00e8re l\u2019a probablement insult\u00e9\u2026. en son absence !<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Les ouvriers de l\u2019h\u00f4tel ont d\u00e9cide une gr\u00e8ve pour d\u00e9fendre leur coll\u00e8gue .Avant     la gr\u00e8ve, une r\u00e9union a \u00e9t\u00e9 organis\u00e9e au si\u00e8ge du gouvernorat afin de     n\u00e9gocier un r\u00e8glement au conflit .En signe de \u00ab bonne volont\u00e9 \u00bb, le     directeur a licenci\u00e9 le secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du syndicat sans donner de raison     .Licenciement contraire \u00e0 la r\u00e9glementation du travail en vigueur et \u00e0 la     Convention Collective de l\u2019H\u00f4tellerie !<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Un sit-in a \u00e9t\u00e9 entam\u00e9 le 26 Octobre en vue de la r\u00e9int\u00e9gration des deux     ouvriers licenci\u00e9 abusivement. En r\u00e9ponse les ouvriers ont re\u00e7u un \u00e0 un des     t\u00e9l\u00e9grammes leur annon\u00e7ant la rupture de leur contrat de travail !Ce qui est     vraiment dr\u00f4le , c\u2019est que ces ouvriers sont titulaires depuis des ann\u00e9e et     aucun contrat ne r\u00e9gie leur relation avec l\u2019h\u00f4tel !<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         L\u2019espoir demeure encore ! Ces ouvriers sont r\u00e9solus \u00e0 aller jusqu au bout     pour d\u00e9fendre leur dignit\u00e9 et leurs droits.     L\u2019Union R\u00e9gionale du Travail de Kairouan, les syndicalistes, la Section de     Kairouan de la Ligue Tunisienne pour la D\u00e9fense des Droits de l\u2019Homme et les     activistes de la r\u00e9gion ont manifest\u00e9 leur solidarit\u00e9 avec les ouvriers d\u00e8s     la premi\u00e8re heure du sit-in.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Face \u00e0 la mondialisation, \u00e0 la pr\u00e9carit\u00e9 et au silence de l\u2019Etat, le seul     salut r\u00e9side dans l\u2019union de tous les militants, les laiss\u00e9s pour compte     contre le bafoue ment de la loi dans le secteur priv\u00e9, secteur \u00e9ternellement     menac\u00e9 par les licenciements, le ch\u00f4mage et l\u2019exploitation.     Qui sait ? Nos cris, nos actions, nos gr\u00e8ves, nos sit-in pourront imposer le     respect de la loi !\u00a0\u00a0  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <strong><font>Massaoud Romdhani et Samir Ben Rayana<\/font><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">    \u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<p> <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div>\n<p align=\"center\"> <span lang=\"FR\"><strong>Philippe De   Villiers :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <b><span lang=\"FR\">\u00ab\u00a0Interdire le voile   dans tous les lieux publics\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">  Propos recueillis par GUILLAUME PERRAULT.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">Le pr\u00e9sident du   Mouvement pour la France se pr\u00e9sente comme \u00ab le dernier d\u00e9fenseur de la   R\u00e9publique contre le communautarisme \u00bb.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">LE   FIGARO. &#8211; \u00c0 quels faits pr\u00e9cis pensez-vous lorsque vous affirmez que   l&rsquo;islamisme menace la la\u00efcit\u00e9 dans notre pays ?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">Philippe DE   VILLIERS. &#8211; L&rsquo;actualit\u00e9 d\u00e9montre chaque jour l&rsquo;avanc\u00e9e du communautarisme   islamique en France. Feuilletons la presse des derni\u00e8res semaines : un   professeur de philosophie, Robert Redeker, menac\u00e9 de mort pour avoir critiqu\u00e9   l&rsquo;islam, le pr\u00e9fet de Seine-Saint-Denis qui \u00e9crit le 13 juin au ministre de   l&rsquo;Int\u00e9rieur : \u00ab Les jeunes (&#8230;) sont aujourd&rsquo;hui fortement travaill\u00e9s par   l&rsquo;islam et sans doute le plus int\u00e9griste. (&#8230;) \u00c0 chaque r\u00e9veil de l&rsquo;agitation   dans telle ou telle cit\u00e9, il est d\u00e9sormais quasi syst\u00e9matiquement observable   que le relais de la gestion locale est pris par les\u00bbbarbus* \u00bb. Il serait   irresponsable de nier l&rsquo;\u00e9vidence : le probl\u00e8me ne fait qu&#8217;empirer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">Que   pr\u00e9conisez-vous ?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">Il faut un signal   fort. La France doit imposer ses valeurs. Les musulmans sont bien s\u00fbr libres   de pratiquer leur foi, mais ils doivent respecter les lois de la R\u00e9publique et   nos modes de vie. Je propose donc l&rsquo;interdiction du voile islamique dans la   rue et les espaces publics. Le voile islamique est le symbole de la soumission   de la femme et porte atteinte \u00e0 sa dignit\u00e9. C&rsquo;est aussi un obstacle \u00e0   l&rsquo;appartenance \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 nationale et un instrument utilis\u00e9 par des   activistes qui s&rsquo;attaquent aux fondements de la R\u00e9publique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">Votre   proposition est-elle compatible avec la jurisprudence du Conseil   constitutionnel en mati\u00e8re de libert\u00e9s publiques ?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">Dans l&rsquo;\u00e9tat actuel   du droit fran\u00e7ais, on ne peut pas rem\u00e9dier aux situations scandaleuses que le   rapport Stasi sur la la\u00efcit\u00e9 d\u00e9non\u00e7ait en ces termes en d\u00e9cembre 2003 : \u00ab Des   jeunes filles ou des femmes portent volontairement le voile, mais d&rsquo;autres le   rev\u00eatent sous la contrainte ou la pression. Il en va ainsi des fillettes   pr\u00e9adolescentes \u00e0 qui le port du voile est impos\u00e9, parfois par la violence. \u00bb   Le rapport Stasi ajoutait : \u00ab Les jeunes filles, une fois voil\u00e9es, peuvent   traverser les cages d&rsquo;escalier d&rsquo;immeubles collectifs sans crainte d&rsquo;\u00eatre   conspu\u00e9es, voire maltrait\u00e9es, comme elles l&rsquo;\u00e9taient auparavant, t\u00eate nue. Le   voile leur offre ainsi, paradoxalement, la protection que devrait garantir la   R\u00e9publique. \u00bb Allons-nous continuer \u00e0 d\u00e9tourner les yeux ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">  Quelles sont les solutions retenues chez nos voisins ?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">En Belgique, le   Parlement r\u00e9gional de la Flandre a prohib\u00e9 le port du voile islamique sur la   voie publique. Au Pays-Bas, le sujet fait la une de la presse. Le ministre de   l&rsquo;Immigration, Rita Verdonk, s&rsquo;est d\u00e9clar\u00e9e favorable \u00e0 cette mesure.   Certaines villes comme Utrecht ont prononc\u00e9 la m\u00eame interdiction. En   Allemagne, le secr\u00e9taire d&rsquo;\u00c9tat \u00e0 l&rsquo;Int\u00e9gration a qualifi\u00e9 le voile islamique   de \u00ab signe d&rsquo;isolement, voire d&rsquo;oppression, lorsqu&rsquo;il est impos\u00e9 aux jeunes   filles et aux femmes \u00bb. Nous sommes le seul pays europ\u00e9en o\u00f9 ce d\u00e9bat est   interdit. <b><span>Et m\u00eame la   Tunisie vient de prohiber le port du voile islamique dans tous les espaces   publics&#8230;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">Ne   craignez-vous pas d&rsquo;\u00eatre accus\u00e9 de jouer les boutefeux ?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">Au contraire, il   ne faut pas confondre le pompier et l&rsquo;incendiaire ! Selon une enqu\u00eate publi\u00e9e   le 17 ao\u00fbt par le tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieux institut d&rsquo;enqu\u00eate am\u00e9ricain Pew Research   Center, 46 % des musulmans fran\u00e7ais revendiquent en priorit\u00e9 leur appartenance   \u00e0 l&rsquo;islam plut\u00f4t qu&rsquo;\u00e0 la France. Nous sommes devant un probl\u00e8me non pas   religieux mais \u00e9minemment politique. Dans mon livre, Les Mosqu\u00e9es de Roissy,   paru en avril dernier, j&rsquo;avais r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 l&rsquo;existence de mosqu\u00e9es clandestines et   de r\u00e9seaux de bagagistes islamistes dans cet a\u00e9roport d&rsquo;\u00cele-de-France. \u00c0   l&rsquo;\u00e9poque, de nombreux m\u00e9dias et la quasi- totalit\u00e9 des hommes politiques ne   m&rsquo;avaient pas cru. Or, six mois apr\u00e8s, que constate-t-on ? Le ministre de   l&rsquo;Int\u00e9rieur avoue l&rsquo;existence de lieux de culte clandestins \u00e0 Roissy,   s&rsquo;efforce de les fermer, et il tente de retirer leur habilitation \u00e0 des   bagagistes suspects qui travaillaient en zone r\u00e9serv\u00e9e ! Les faits me donnent   raison. De m\u00eame, sur le voile islamique, je ne fais que dire ce que pensent   nos concitoyens. Ce n&rsquo;est pas \u00e0 la France de s&rsquo;adapter \u00e0 l&rsquo;islam, c&rsquo;est \u00e0   l&rsquo;islam de s&rsquo;adapter \u00e0 la France. Ce sera une question essentielle de   l&rsquo;\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle de 2007 : je suis le seul \u00e0 briser le tabou et le   dernier d\u00e9fenseur de la R\u00e9publique contre le communautarisme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">  (Source\u00a0:\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Le Figaro\u00a0\u00bb (France) du 2 novembre 2006)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\"><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong> <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">France &#8211; Villiers veut interdire le voile dans   les lieux publics<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0REUTERS, le 2 novembre 2006 \u00e0 08h23     PARIS, 2 novembre (Reuters) &#8211; Philippe de Villiers pr\u00f4ne l&rsquo;interdiction du     voile islamique dans tous les lieux publics afin de donner un \u00ab\u00a0signal fort\u00a0\u00bb     face \u00e0 l&rsquo;avanc\u00e9e, selon lui, du communautarisme islamique en France.     \u00a0     \u00ab\u00a0La France doit imposer ses valeurs. Les musulmans sont bien s\u00fbr libres de     pratiquer leur foi, mais ils doivent respecter les lois de la R\u00e9publique et     nos modes de vie\u00a0\u00bb, d\u00e9clare le pr\u00e9sident du Mouvement pour la France (MPF)     jeudi dans le Figaro.     \u00a0     \u00ab\u00a0Je propose donc l&rsquo;interdiction du voile islamique dans la rue et les     espaces publics. Le voile islamique est le symbole de la soumission de la     femme et porte atteinte \u00e0 sa dignit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, ajoute-t-il.     \u00a0     Pour Philippe de Villiers, le port du voile est aussi \u00ab\u00a0un obstacle \u00e0     l&rsquo;appartenance \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 nationale et un instrument utilis\u00e9 par des     activistes qui s&rsquo;attaquent aux     fondements de la R\u00e9publique\u00a0\u00bb.     \u00a0     Il reconnait cependant qu&rsquo;en l&rsquo;\u00e9tat actuel du droit fran\u00e7ais, \u00ab\u00a0on ne peut     pas rem\u00e9dier aux situations scandaleuses que le rapport Stasi sur la la\u00efcit\u00e9     d\u00e9non\u00e7ait en ces termes en d\u00e9cembre 2003 : &lsquo;Des jeunes filles ou des femmes     portent volontairement le voile, mais d&rsquo;autres le rev\u00eatent sous la     contrainte ou la pression'\u00a0\u00bb.     \u00a0     \u00ab\u00a0Il en va ainsi des fillettes pr\u00e9adolescentes \u00e0 qui le port du voile est     impos\u00e9, parfois par la violence\u00a0\u00bb, estime-t-il.     Le souverainiste avance qu&rsquo;en Belgique, \u00ab\u00a0le Parlement r\u00e9gional de la Flandre     a prohib\u00e9 le port du voile islamique sur la voie publique et qu&rsquo;aux     Pays-Bas, le sujet \u00ab\u00a0fait la une de la presse\u00a0\u00bb.      \u00a0     REUTERS     \u00a0 <\/p>\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">Les musulmanes doivent pouvoir     d\u00e9cider de porter ou non le voile (Khatami)<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0AFP, le 2 novembre 2006 \u00e0 15h08     LONDRES, 2 nov 2006 (AFP) &#8211; L&rsquo;ancien pr\u00e9sident iranien Mohammad Khatami,     consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un mod\u00e9r\u00e9, a estim\u00e9 jeudi que les femmes devaient pouvoir     d\u00e9cider seules de porter ou non le voile islamique.     \u00a0     \u00ab\u00a0Le principe du voile islamique est une question musulmane\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M.     Khatami sur la BBC. \u00ab\u00a0C&rsquo;est une chose que les femmes doivent pouvoir d\u00e9cider     elles-m\u00eames. Ce n&rsquo;est pas quelque chose qui peut \u00eatre impos\u00e9 par la force.\u00a0\u00bb     \u00a0     Mais \u00ab\u00a0les musulmans doivent comprendre qu&rsquo;ils vivent au sein de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9     britannique et doivent en respecter les r\u00e8gles. La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 britannique doit     (de son c\u00f4t\u00e9) consid\u00e9rer les musulmans comme des citoyens et des     compatriotes\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il ajout\u00e9.     \u00a0     Une controverse a r\u00e9cemment eu lieu en Grande-Bretagne \u00e0 propos du voile     islamique, o\u00f9 le cas d&rsquo;une jeune institutrice refusant d&rsquo;enlever son niqab     (voile int\u00e9gral) a cristallis\u00e9 le d\u00e9bat.     \u00a0     Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 lanc\u00e9e par le ministre des Relations avec les d\u00e9put\u00e9s, Jack     Straw, qui s&rsquo;est dit favorable \u00e0 ce que les musulmanes ne portent pas du     tout le voile, y voyant le symbole de la s\u00e9paration des communaut\u00e9s.     \u00a0     De son c\u00f4t\u00e9, le Premier ministre britannique Tony Blair a estim\u00e9 que le     voile islamique constituait une \u00ab\u00a0marque de s\u00e9paration\u00a0\u00bb, mais a appel\u00e9 \u00e0 une     discussion plus large sur l&rsquo;int\u00e9gration de la communaut\u00e9 musulmane en     Grande-Bretagne.     \u00a0     Mohammad Khatami effectue depuis mardi un d\u00e9placement en Grande-Bretagne, o\u00f9     il a re\u00e7u mardi un doctorat honoris causa \u00e0 l&rsquo;universit\u00e9 St Andrews en     Ecosse. Il a \u00e9galement prononc\u00e9 un discours \u00e0 l&rsquo;universit\u00e9 d&rsquo;Oxford (centre     de l&rsquo;Angleterre) et s&rsquo;est rendu au centre d&rsquo;\u00e9tudes strat\u00e9giques de Chatham     House \u00e0 Londres.     \u00a0     AFP\u00a0 <\/p>\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">    \u00a0<\/div>\n<p> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<strong><font>S\u00e9curit\u00e9   antiterroriste:    <\/font><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">72 employ\u00e9s (Musulmans, NDLR) d&rsquo;un   a\u00e9roport parisien \u00e9cart\u00e9s<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0AFP, le 2 novembre 2006 \u00e0 19h25     PARIS, 2 nov 2006 (AFP) &#8211; Soixante-douze employ\u00e9s au total de l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport     parisien de Roissy ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9cart\u00e9s des zones sensibles depuis mai 2005 car     proches de mouvances \u00ab\u00a0potentiellement terroristes\u00a0\u00bb et pour une grande     majorit\u00e9, li\u00e9s \u00e0 une \u00ab\u00a0mouvance islamiste\u00a0\u00bb, a affirm\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;AFP un responsable.     \u00a0     L&rsquo;annonce le 20 octobre du retrait de \u00ab\u00a0dizaines de badges\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 des employ\u00e9s de     l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport, en majorit\u00e9 musulmans, avait relanc\u00e9 la pol\u00e9mique, certains     employ\u00e9s de l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport d\u00e9non\u00e7ant une \u00ab\u00a0parano\u00efa\u00a0\u00bb ambiante, et un syndicat     ayant port\u00e9 plainte pour discrimination.     \u00a0     \u00ab\u00a072 employ\u00e9s ont fait l&rsquo;objet d&rsquo;un retrait de badge\u00a0\u00bb parce qu'\u00a0\u00bbils sont li\u00e9s     \u00e0 des mouvances fondamentalistes \u00e0 vis\u00e9e potentiellement terroriste\u00a0\u00bb, a     insist\u00e9 jeudi le sous-pr\u00e9fet. Une \u00ab\u00a0grande majorit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb de ces 72 employ\u00e9s sont     li\u00e9s \u00e0 une \u00ab\u00a0mouvance islamiste\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il pr\u00e9cis\u00e9.     \u00a0     L&rsquo;un d&rsquo;eux a \u00e9t\u00e9 en \u00ab\u00a0contact suivi\u00a0\u00bb avec une personne qui \u00e9tait \u00ab\u00a0en contact     directe avec Richard Reid\u00a0\u00bb: membre d&rsquo;Al-Qa\u00efda, le Britannique Richard Reid     avait tent\u00e9 en vain le 22 d\u00e9cembre 2001 d&rsquo;actionner en vol entre Paris et     Miami des explosifs dissimul\u00e9s dans ces chaussures.     \u00a0     M. Lebrot avait indiqu\u00e9 le 20 octobre \u00e0 l&rsquo;AFP que des employ\u00e9s \u00e9cart\u00e9s     avaient fr\u00e9quent\u00e9 pendant plusieurs mois des \u00e9coles coraniques jug\u00e9es     dangereuses en Afghanistan ou au Pakistan et qu&rsquo;ils repr\u00e9sentaient \u00ab\u00a0une     vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 pour la s\u00fbret\u00e9 de l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport\u00a0\u00bb.     \u00a0     Sur le total, une \u00ab\u00a0petite dizaine\u00a0\u00bb d&#8217;employ\u00e9s se sont \u00e9galement vu retirer     leur badge parce que proches d&rsquo;organisations terroristes li\u00e9es aux rebelles\u00a0     tamouls en conflit arm\u00e9 avec le gouvernement sri-lankais, a ajout\u00e9 M.     Lebrot.     \u00a0     Un employ\u00e9 sikh a aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 l&rsquo;objet d&rsquo;un retrait de badge. \u00ab\u00a0Plusieurs     syndicalistes\u00a0\u00bb font partie des 72 employ\u00e9s vis\u00e9s. Par ailleurs, quelque 68     employ\u00e9s ont \u00e9t\u00e9 l&rsquo;objet d&rsquo;un signalement depuis mai 2005 de la part des     services de la pr\u00e9fecture de Seine-saint-Denis, pr\u00e8s de Paris, et n&rsquo;ont pas     \u00e9t\u00e9 sanctionn\u00e9s apr\u00e8s enqu\u00eate, a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 le sous-pr\u00e9fet.     \u00a0     Une quarantaine de dossiers sont en cours d&rsquo;instruction, a-t-il ajout\u00e9. \u00ab\u00a0Les     enqu\u00eates et les retraits de badge vont continuer jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 ce qu&rsquo;on ait     \u00e9radiqu\u00e9 tous les gens qui posent probl\u00e8me au niveau de la s\u00fbret\u00e9     a\u00e9roportuaire \u00e0 Roissy\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il dit.     \u00a0     Au total, depuis mai 2005, pr\u00e8s de 180 employ\u00e9s de Roissy ont \u00e9t\u00e9 l&rsquo;objet     d&rsquo;une enqu\u00eate pr\u00e9fectorale et des services de renseignement fran\u00e7ais pour     des raisons de s\u00fbret\u00e9 li\u00e9es \u00e0 des risques terroristes.     \u00a0     Une dizaine de salari\u00e9s ont introduit un recours en justice pour suspendre     la d\u00e9cision prise par la pr\u00e9fecture de Seine-Saint-denis de leur retirer     leur badge. Ce recours doit \u00eatre examin\u00e9 le 10 novembre.     \u00a0     Par ailleurs, une plainte pour discrimination a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9pos\u00e9e, le 19 octobre,     par le syndicat CFDT aupr\u00e8s du procureur de la R\u00e9publique de Bobigny qui a     ouvert une enqu\u00eate le jour m\u00eame. De son c\u00f4t\u00e9, la Haute autorit\u00e9 de lutte     contre les discriminations (Halde) s&rsquo;est autosaisie pour v\u00e9rifier s&rsquo;il y a     eu discrimination dans le cadre de ces retraits de badge.     \u00a0     En avril, Philippe de Villiers, pr\u00e9sident du Mouvement pour la France (MPF,     droite nationaliste), avait lanc\u00e9 la pol\u00e9mique avec son livre intitul\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0Les     Mosqu\u00e9es de Roissy\u00a0\u00bb, o\u00f9 il d\u00e9non\u00e7ait l&rsquo;existence de salles de pri\u00e8res     officieuses et l&rsquo;infiltration d&rsquo;islamistes \u00e0 l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport.     \u00a0     Quatre mois plus tard, le minist\u00e8re de l&rsquo;Int\u00e9rieur annon\u00e7ait que \u00ab\u00a0tous les     lieux de cultes officieux\u00a0\u00bb avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 ferm\u00e9s.     \u00a0     AFP <\/p>\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"center\"> <b><span lang=\"FR\"><font size=\"3\">Les     tunisiens d\u2019Al Jazeera<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A     l\u2019occasion du dixi\u00e8me anniversaire de la cha\u00eene satellitaire Al Jazeera, une     \u00e9mission sp\u00e9ciale regroupant les animateurs de la chaine a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e et     anim\u00e9e par Ahmad Mansour<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"AR-SA\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parmi     les pr\u00e9sentateurs pr\u00e9sents \u00e9taient les tunisiens pr\u00e9sentateurs vedettes de     la cha\u00eene Mohmed Krichen et Laila Chaibi <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad     Mansour remarqua que Krichen \u00e9tait entre le marteau et l&rsquo;enclume et lui     demanda s\u2019il fera face \u00e0 des emb\u00eatements \u00e0 son retour en Tunisie<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"AR-SA\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Krichen a rappel\u00e9 son interlocuteur que ce n\u2019est pas son \u00e9mission qui a \u00e9t\u00e9     \u00e0 l\u2019origine de cette pol\u00e9mique, en ajoutant qu\u2019il a toujours jouit de tous     les respects durant ses s\u00e9jour en Tunisie<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"AR-SA\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Rappelons que la Tunisie irrit\u00e9e par la mani\u00e8re dont Al Jazeera couvre     l\u2019actualit\u00e9 nationale a rappel\u00e9 son Ambassadeur \u00e0 Doha pour protester \u00ab     contre une campagne hostile de la cha\u00eene Al Jazeera\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mohmed     Krichen a indiqu\u00e9 que les autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes n\u2019ont jamais essay\u00e9 de le     s\u00e9duire ou de le taquiner. (La Tunisie avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 rappel\u00e9 son ambassadeur en     2001 pour contester contre la couverture de la Tunisie par Al Jazeera).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Krichen qui fait partie d&rsquo;Al Jazeera depuis 1996, a termin\u00e9 par une     anecdote: une fois en visite au nord ouest du pays, voila qu\u2019un passant lui     remarque qu\u2019il ressemble \u00e0 l\u2019animateur d\u2019Al Jazeera, \u00aben plus vous avez la     m\u00eame voix \u00bb ajoute le passant \u00e9tonn\u00e9, lui demandant son nom, il fit encore     plus \u00e9tonn\u00e9 de d\u00e9couvrir que ce visiteur avait le m\u00eame nom, le m\u00eame look et     la m\u00eame voix que Krichen d\u2019Al Jazeera, il a continu\u00e9 \u00e0 lui demander qu&rsquo;elle     \u00e9tait sa ville natale, le passant \u00e9tait \u00e9tonn\u00e9 \u00ab Oh Sobhan Allah m\u00eame     Mohamed Krichen d\u2019Al Jazeera venait de Sfax\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MSM<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"AR-SA\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span lang=\"FR\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">    (Source\u00a0: le portail tunisien Babnet, le 2 novembre 2006)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <span lang=\"FR\">    Lien\u00a0:<\/span><span lang=\"FR\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babnet.net\/rttdetail-9143.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">    http:\/\/www.babnet.net\/rttdetail-9143.asp<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong> <font>Reporters sans frontieres<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong> <font>INTERNATIONAL      <\/font><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">Al-Jazira f\u00eate ses dix ans : une libert\u00e9   de ton parfois cher pay\u00e9e<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Lanc\u00e9e le 1er novembre 1996 par l&rsquo;\u00e9mirat du Qatar, la cha\u00eene de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision     satellitaire Al-Jazira continue de susciter les passions. Tour \u00e0 tour     encens\u00e9e et critiqu\u00e9e, la cha\u00eene rassemble aujourd&rsquo;hui un public estim\u00e9 \u00e0 50     millions de t\u00e9l\u00e9spectateurs et son site Internet fait partie des cinquante     sites les plus visit\u00e9s du monde. Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res revient sur les     principales atteintes subies par Al-Jazira au cours de ces deux derni\u00e8res     ann\u00e9es.          \u00ab\u00a0Cette cha\u00eene satellitaire, pr\u00e9sente dans une grande majorit\u00e9 des foyers     arabes, prend \u00e0 contre-pied l&rsquo;information traditionnelle diffus\u00e9e par les     m\u00e9dias nationaux autoris\u00e9s. D&rsquo;une part, ses \u00e9missions irritent r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement     les dirigeants arabes parce qu&rsquo;elles donnent la parole \u00e0 leurs opposants     ainsi qu&rsquo;aux t\u00e9l\u00e9spectateurs, et abordent des sujets politiques et sociaux     consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme tabous dans beaucoup de pays du monde arabe. D&rsquo;autre part,     le gouvernement des Etats-Unis a, \u00e0 maintes reprises, accus\u00e9 la cha\u00eene     d&rsquo;encourager le sentiment antiam\u00e9ricain dans la r\u00e9gion et d&rsquo;inciter \u00e0 la     violence contre les troupes de la coalition am\u00e9ricano-britannique en Irak\u00a0\u00bb,     a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 l&rsquo;organisation.          \u00ab\u00a0Appels au boycott commercial et publicitaire, fermetures des bureaux de la     cha\u00eene, interdictions de couvrir des \u00e9v\u00e9nements-cl\u00e9s, expulsions,     arrestations ou morts de ses journalistes, bombardements de ses locaux et     pressions diplomatiques \u00e0 l&rsquo;encontre du Qatar : de nombreux gouvernements     ont ainsi tent\u00e9 de censurer Al-Jazira. Mais si sa libert\u00e9 de ton a     v\u00e9ritablement cr\u00e9\u00e9 un pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent dans le paysage audiovisuel arabe, les     questions internes au Qatar n&rsquo;y sont toujours que rarement abord\u00e9es\u00a0\u00bb, a     ajout\u00e9 Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res.          Un cameraman d&rsquo;Al-Jazira de nationalit\u00e9 soudanaise est d\u00e9tenu par les     autorit\u00e9s am\u00e9ricaines depuis 2002 sur la base militaire de Guantanamo     (Cuba). Sami Al-Haj a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 le 15 d\u00e9cembre 2001 au sud de l&rsquo;Afghanistan     alors qu&rsquo;il couvrait la campagne militaire am\u00e9ricaine dans le pays. Il a     d\u00e9j\u00e0 pass\u00e9 plus de quatre ans en prison alors qu&rsquo;aucun chef d&rsquo;inculpation     n&rsquo;a encore \u00e9t\u00e9 retenu contre lui.          En Egypte, le 7 d\u00e9cembre 2005, la journaliste<strong> Leena El-Ghadban<\/strong>,     qui couvrait les \u00e9lections pour le compte d&rsquo;Al-Jazira, et son \u00e9quipe,     constitu\u00e9e du cameraman <strong>Mohamed Ezz<\/strong>, du preneur de son<strong>     Mohamed Galal<\/strong> et du chauffeur Medhat Sayed Abdou, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 emp\u00each\u00e9s     par des agents de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;Etat de filmer \u00e0 l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur d&rsquo;un bureau de     vote dans le district de Bandar-Domyat ( 191 km au nord du Caire). Au     nord-est de la capitale, dans le district d&rsquo;Al-Arish, la m\u00eame m\u00e9saventure     est arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 un autre reporter d&rsquo;Al-Jazira, <strong>Mohamed Yousef<\/strong>.     Une autre \u00e9quipe de la cha\u00eene a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 harcel\u00e9e dans la province d&rsquo;El     Sharqiya ( 83 km \u00e0 l&rsquo;est du Caire). Le journaliste<strong> Sameer Omar<\/strong>,     le cameraman <strong>Yasser Sulaiman<\/strong> et son assistant <strong>Ahmed     Shaqi<\/strong> ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pri\u00e9s de quitter imm\u00e9diatement les lieux, sous peine     d&rsquo;\u00eatre asperg\u00e9s d&rsquo;acide nitrique. Par ailleurs, le 27 avril 2006,<strong>     Hussein Abdel Ghani<\/strong>, directeur du bureau d&rsquo;Al-Jazira au Caire,     avait \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 alors qu&rsquo;il r\u00e9alisait un reportage sur une s\u00e9rie     d&rsquo;explosions dans le sud du Sina\u00ef. Le journaliste \u00e9tait accus\u00e9 d&rsquo;avoir     diffus\u00e9 des \u00ab\u00a0informations erron\u00e9es de nature \u00e0 nuire \u00e0 la r\u00e9putation du     pays\u00a0\u00bb, informations qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9es par de nombreux m\u00e9dias     \u00e9gyptiens et \u00e9trangers. Enfin, en mai 2006, le cameraman <strong>Yasser     Sulaiman<\/strong>, et son preneur de son, <strong>Nasr Youcef<\/strong>, ont     \u00e9t\u00e9 emp\u00each\u00e9s de prendre des images d&rsquo;une manifestation de soutien \u00e0 deux     juges \u00e9gyptiens devant le tribunal du Caire. Le cameraman a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9     frapp\u00e9 au visage. Sa cam\u00e9ra a \u00e9t\u00e9 saisie puis rendue sans la cassette.    <strong>Mohamed El Daba et Lina Ghadban<\/strong>, respectivement producteur     et journaliste pour Al-Jazira au Caire, ont subi un long interrogatoire     avant d&rsquo;\u00eatre rel\u00e2ch\u00e9s.          Les autorit\u00e9s iraniennes ont annonc\u00e9, le 18 avril 2005, la fermeture du     bureau \u00e0 T\u00e9h\u00e9ran de la cha\u00eene qatarie pour \u00ab\u00a0incitation au trouble\u00a0\u00bb.     Al-Jazira avait \u00e9t\u00e9 l&rsquo;une des premi\u00e8res cha\u00eenes \u00e0 couvrir les affrontements     qui ont eu lieu, le 15 avril, dans le sud du pays et \u00e0 faire \u00e9tat du bilan     des morts et des bless\u00e9s. La cha\u00eene avait en effet \u00e9t\u00e9 accus\u00e9e \u00ab d&rsquo;avoir     incit\u00e9 des \u00e9l\u00e9ments subversifs \u00e0 d\u00e9clencher les troubles \u00bb. En novembre     2004, T\u00e9h\u00e9ran avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 menac\u00e9 de sanctionner Al-Jazira si elle ne retirait     pas de son site Internet une caricature jug\u00e9e insultante. La cha\u00eene avait     \u00e9t\u00e9 menac\u00e9e d&rsquo;expulsion une seconde fois, peu de temps apr\u00e8s, pour avoir     parl\u00e9 du golfe \u00ab Arabique \u00bb et non du golfe Persique.          Suite \u00e0 des interdictions temporaires de couvrir certaines activit\u00e9s des     officiels irakiens, le bureau d&rsquo;Al-Jazira \u00e0 Bagdad est ferm\u00e9 depuis le 7     ao\u00fbt 2004 apr\u00e8s que la cha\u00eene avait \u00e9t\u00e9 accus\u00e9e d'\u00a0\u00bbincitation \u00e0 la haine et     aux tensions raciales\u00a0\u00bb.          En Isra\u00ebl, <strong>Awad Rajoub<\/strong>, journaliste palestinien du site     Internet de la cha\u00eene, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 le 30 novembre 2005 et accus\u00e9     d'\u00a0\u00bbatteinte \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb de l&rsquo;Etat\u00a0\u00bb. Les autorit\u00e9s avaient affirm\u00e9 que son     arrestation n&rsquo;\u00e9tait pas li\u00e9e \u00e0 sa profession. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 rel\u00e2ch\u00e9 apr\u00e8s six     mois de d\u00e9tention faute de preuves. Par ailleurs, le 4 novembre, <strong>    Nabil Al-Mazzawi<\/strong>, cameraman d&rsquo;Al-Jazira en Cisjordanie, a \u00e9t\u00e9     frapp\u00e9 puis retenu pendant plusieurs heures par des soldats isra\u00e9liens alors     qu&rsquo;il filmait une manifestation contre le \u00ab\u00a0Mur\u00a0\u00bb de s\u00e9paration construit par     Isra\u00ebl. En juillet 2006, le chef du bureau d&rsquo;Al-Jazira, <strong>Walid     Al-Omari<\/strong>, a \u00e9t\u00e9 interpell\u00e9 \u00e0 deux reprises en deux jours alors     qu&rsquo;il couvrait le conflit arm\u00e9 \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re avec le Liban. En m\u00eame temps,     les membres d&rsquo;une autre \u00e9quipe de la cha\u00eene avaient \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9     interpell\u00e9s alors qu&rsquo;il r\u00e9alisaient un reportage \u00e0 Ha\u00effa, au sud de la     fronti\u00e8re libanaise. Une autre \u00e9quipe qui couvrait une incursion de l&rsquo;arm\u00e9e     isra\u00e9lienne \u00e0 Naplouse en Cisjordanie a essuy\u00e9 des tirs. Le technicien    <strong>Wa\u00ebl Tantous<\/strong> a \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9 au pied par des balles en     caoutchouc.          <strong>Abdessalam Razzak<\/strong>, correspondant au Maroc de la cha\u00eene     satellitaire, a \u00e9t\u00e9 refoul\u00e9 sans motif \u00e0 l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport de La\u00e2youne, le 27 mai     2005, suite \u00e0 des manifestations qui se sont d\u00e9roul\u00e9es du 24 au 29 mai     opposant des Sahraouis aux forces de l&rsquo;ordre. Il n&rsquo;a pu revenir dans la     ville que deux jours plus tard dans le cadre de la visite officielle     organis\u00e9e par le gouverneur. D&rsquo;autre part, le 15 juin 2006, <strong>Hassan     Fatih<\/strong>, un autre correspondant de la cha\u00eene dans le pays et son     \u00e9quipe ont \u00e9t\u00e9 frapp\u00e9s par les forces de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 marocaines alors qu&rsquo;ils     couvraient un sit-in des familles de 68 prisonniers salafistes en gr\u00e8ve de     la faim.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <strong><font>En octobre 2006, la Tunisie a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de fermer     son ambassade au Qatar pour protester contre la \u00ab\u00a0campagne hostile\u00a0\u00bb     d&rsquo;Al-Jazira. Cette d\u00e9cision est survenue suite \u00e0 la diffusion, le 14 octobre     2006, de deux interviews de Moncef Marzouki, opposant tunisien qui avait, \u00e0     cette occasion, appel\u00e9 \u00e0 la \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9sistance\u00a0\u00bb contre le pouvoir. Les relations     entre le Qatar et certaines capitales se sont d\u00e9t\u00e9rior\u00e9es suite \u00e0 la     diffusion d&rsquo;\u00e9missions qui ont irrit\u00e9 plusieurs gouvernements arabes. En     2001, l &lsquo;ambassadeur de Tunisie \u00e0 Doha avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 rappel\u00e9 en     consultation pour protester contre la couverture du pays par la cha\u00eene. En     2002, l &lsquo;Arabie saoudite avait fait de m\u00eame, suite \u00e0 la diffusion d&rsquo;une     \u00e9mission critique envers la famille royale saoudienne.          <\/font><\/strong>&#8212;     Maghreb &amp; Middle-East Desk     Hajar Smouni     Reporters Without Borders     5 rue Geoffroy-Marie      F &#8211; 75009 Paris     33 1 44 83 84 78     33 1 45 23 11 51 (fax)     middle-east@rsf.org     www.rsf.org     www.leblogmedias.com (en fran\u00e7ais)  <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong> <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">Al-Jazira a pour ambition de conqu\u00e9rir une   audience mondiale<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Au cours d&rsquo;une conf\u00e9rence de presse tenue \u00e0 Doha (Qatar), le 31 octobre, \u00e0     l&rsquo;occasion du dixi\u00e8me anniversaire de la cha\u00eene Al-Jazira, qui fut lanc\u00e9e le     1er novembre 1996, Wadah Khanfar, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral d&rsquo;Al-Jazira Satellite     Network, a annonc\u00e9 que la version anglaise de la cha\u00eene, Al-Jazira     International, commencera \u00e0 \u00e9mettre le 15 novembre.     \u00a0     Avec quatre centres r\u00e9gionaux situ\u00e9s \u00e0 Doha, Kuala Lumpur, Londres et     Washington, cette nouvelle cha\u00eene, dont le lancement a \u00e9t\u00e9 maintes fois     report\u00e9, a pour ambition de toucher 40 millions de t\u00e9l\u00e9spectateurs \u00e0 travers     le monde \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e8s le premier jour de diffusion\u00a0\u00bb, selon M. Khanfar.      \u00a0     Elle serait alors une concurrente redoutable pour les grandes cha\u00eenes     d&rsquo;information internationales anglo-saxonnes, comme la BBC et CNN, mais     aussi pour France 24, qui sera lanc\u00e9e le 6 d\u00e9cembre sur Internet, puis le     c\u00e2ble et le satellite, en trois langues (fran\u00e7ais, anglais, arabe).     \u00a0     \u00ab\u00a0Il y a un vide dans les m\u00e9dias internationaux, que nous allons remplir\u00a0\u00bb, a     d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M. Khanfar, tr\u00e8s s\u00fbr de lui. Al-Jazira International disposera de     soixante bureaux dans le monde et emploiera 800 personnes de 55     nationalit\u00e9s. Elle diffusera \u00ab\u00a0en direct pendant 12 heures\u00a0\u00bb, le reste de la     journ\u00e9e \u00e9tant meubl\u00e9 par des rediffusions. La diffusion en direct 24 heures     sur 24 devrait \u00eatre effective \u00ab\u00a0quelques semaines\u00a0\u00bb apr\u00e8s le lancement de la     cha\u00eene.      \u00a0     M. Khanfar a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;AFP que son groupe a d\u00e9j\u00e0 conclu deux contrats avec     les principales soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de c\u00e2ble aux Etats-Unis, et \u00ab\u00a0en n\u00e9gocie dix autres\u00a0\u00bb     sans pour autant pr\u00e9ciser la nature de ces contrats.     \u00a0     Dirig\u00e9e par Nigel Parsons, journaliste britannique, ancien de la BBC et de     WTN, Al-Jazira International a recrut\u00e9 de nombreux journalistes issus des     grands r\u00e9seaux anglo-saxons : BBC, ITV, CNBC-Europe, Sky News, CNN ou ABC.         \u00a0     Par souci de prestige, la cha\u00eene s&rsquo;est aussi attach\u00e9 les services de Sir     David Frost, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre ex-v\u00e9t\u00e9ran de la BBC et seul journaliste \u00e0 avoir, en     quarante ans, interview\u00e9 sept pr\u00e9sidents am\u00e9ricains et six premiers     ministres britanniques.     \u00a0     <strong>INFLUENCE CROISSANTE<\/strong>     \u00a0     Concernant la ligne \u00e9ditoriale, \u00ab\u00a0l&rsquo;esprit sera unique pour la cha\u00eene arabe     et sa consoeur anglaise mais avec deux \u00e9quipes autonomes, a indiqu\u00e9 M.     Khanfar. Mais nous laisserons \u00e0 nos confr\u00e8res de la cha\u00eene anglaise (la     charge) de d\u00e9finir les priorit\u00e9s de leurs t\u00e9l\u00e9spectateurs.\u00a0\u00bb      \u00a0     Le budget de la cha\u00eene en anglais n&rsquo;a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9voil\u00e9, mais, comme     l&rsquo;ensemble du groupe, elle sera financ\u00e9e par les tr\u00e8s riches autorit\u00e9s du     Qatar. M. Khanfar a d\u00e9menti toute privatisation \u00ab\u00a0m\u00eame partielle\u00a0\u00bb     d&rsquo;Al-Jazira.     \u00a0     La cha\u00eene qatarienne a acquis sa renomm\u00e9e gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 sa couverture de la guerre     en Afghanistan, en 2001, et \u00e0 la diffusion de vid\u00e9os d&rsquo;Oussama Ben Laden et     des chefs d&rsquo;Al-Qaida. Son franc-parler a provoqu\u00e9 plusieurs crises avec     quelques monarchies p\u00e9troli\u00e8res du monde arabe, qui disposent elles aussi de     cha\u00eenes (Abou Dhabi TV, Duba\u00ef TV&#8230;).      \u00a0     En 2002, l&rsquo;Arabie saoudite avait rappel\u00e9 son ambassadeur apr\u00e8s la diffusion     d&rsquo;un d\u00e9bat critiquant la famille royale saoudienne. Et, pour tenter de     contrer son influence croissante dans le monde arabe, Riyad a lanc\u00e9, en     2003, sa propre cha\u00eene d&rsquo;information, Al-Arabiya, devenue la premi\u00e8re     concurrente d&rsquo;Al-Jazira.     \u00a0     Le mois dernier, c&rsquo;est la Tunisie qui a ferm\u00e9 son ambassade \u00e0 Doha pour     protester contre la diffusion de l&rsquo;interview d&rsquo;un opposant tunisien. Depuis     2004, Al-Jazira est interdite en Irak, les Am\u00e9ricains continuant \u00e0 la     consid\u00e9rer comme sulfureuse.      \u00a0     En novembre 2005, la presse britannique avait r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que George Bush aurait     envisag\u00e9, dans une conversation class\u00e9e top secret avec Tony Blair, de     bombarder les installations d&rsquo;Al-Jazira.     \u00a0     Manifestement satisfait de la position d&rsquo;influence que lui conf\u00e8re     Al-Jazira, l&rsquo;\u00e9mirat du Qatar envisagerait de lancer l&rsquo;an prochain un     quotidien panarabe, destin\u00e9 \u00e0 concurrencer Al Hayat, influent journal \u00e9dit\u00e9     \u00e0 Londres et financ\u00e9 par l&rsquo;Arabie saoudite. Selon le Financial Times, qui a     r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 l&rsquo;information mardi, le groupe Al-Jazira aurait recrut\u00e9 \u00e0 cet effet     Abdelwahab Bedrakhan, un ancien \u00e9diteur d&rsquo;Al Hayat.\u00a0     \u00a0     Daniel Psenny (avec AFP)     \u00a0     &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;     LEXIQUE     \u00a0     CR\u00c9ATION.     \u00a0     Al-Jazira, cha\u00eene d&rsquo;information en langue arabe, a \u00e9t\u00e9 lanc\u00e9e le 1er     novembre 1996, depuis Doha, la capitale de l&rsquo;\u00e9mirat du Qatar, qui en d\u00e9tient     50 % du capital. Elle dispose d&rsquo;une dotation annuelle de 32 millions     d&rsquo;euros.     \u00a0     AUDIENCE.     \u00a0     La cha\u00eene satellitaire en langue arabe revendique une audience cumul\u00e9e de 40     millions de t\u00e9l\u00e9spectateurs chaque semaine.     \u00a0     STRUCTURE.     \u00a0     Le groupe Al-Jazira Satellite Network comprend trois cha\u00eenes sportives, dont     deux payantes, Al-Jazira Live, qui retransmet des conf\u00e9rences sans     commentateur, et Al-Jazira Children, une cha\u00eene pour enfants d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e avec     Lagard\u00e8re. Ses deux sites Internet en anglais et en arabe annoncent un     trafic de 811 millions de pages lues.     \u00a0     <strong><font>(Source : \u00ab le Monde \u00bb du 03 novembre 2006)<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr\/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: blue;\"><font size=\"3\">Al-Ghannoushi : Ben Ali&rsquo;s regime aims to destroy Tunisian people<\/font><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <strong><font>Khaled Salam, Ikhwanweb &#8211; London, UK     <\/font><\/strong>     Thursday, November 02, 2006<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <strong>Rashid Al-Ghannoushi : Ben Ali&rsquo;s regime aims to destroy Tunisian     people&rsquo;s Islamic opposition, identity          <\/strong>His ideological fatwas and directions are stemming from a down to     earth understanding of every day incidents; he is one of a few figures whose     statements and fatwas reflect a clear understanding of texts and linking     them to reality; he is an icon of the Islamic movement facing political     corruption and oppression; the London-based sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannoushi- the     chief of the Tunisian <strong>Al-Nahda (Renaissance) movement<\/strong>&#8211; is     the symbol of mature Islamic thought who understands how to link texts with     reality.           We had this long interview with sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannoushi in which we     tackled the status of the Tunisian Al-Nahda (Renaissance) movement and the     political status quo there in addition to how Muslims live in the West and     the most important problems that they face.          <strong>1-All of us know the black historical days which Tunisia lived     during Bourguiba&rsquo;s era who repeatedly tried to give a death blow to the     Islamic movements and their members and to link Tunisia to the West; I ask     you Sir: do you see a difference between Bourguiba &lsquo;s Tunisia and nowadays&rsquo;     Tunisia, particularly after the latest referendum on president Zine El     Abidine Ben Ali, giving him (like all Islamic and Arab countries) a life     long rule?.     <\/strong>     \u00a0     <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> There is no big difference in terms     of attitude and method between the master (Bourguiba ) and his apprentice     (Ben Ali); however, the master was more of and ideologist: he adored the     West and its civilization, and hated Islam, its civilization, followers and     institutions; the phrase that outlines Bourguiba &lsquo;s philosophy and method is     \u00ab\u00a0keeping in touch with civilized nations\u00a0\u00bb; thus, his enmity to the Islamic     movement is just a part of his enmity to Islam; he was so angry with     people&rsquo;s close relation to Allah, His messenger and his holly Book, because     he felt this a downgrade to his personal position and pompousness like     Fir&rsquo;awn who said \u00a0\u00bb I am your god in the sky\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0you believe in what I see as     right\u00a0\u00bb; he exclaims how people give a high esteem to an illiterate man     (Mohamed PBUH) while he (a Sorbonne graduate)\u00a0 sees himself as deserving     this most; thus, he mocked at the Quran and miracles of prophets to the     extent of defying the holy pillar of Fasting when he called on his people-     in the first day of the holy month of Ramadan while drinking a glass of     wine- to not to follow this heavenly order under the pretext of fighting     backwardness.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0Thus, scholars like sheikh Bin Baz, Egypt&rsquo;s former Mufti sheikh Ali     Al-Khafif and India&rsquo;s reputed scholar Aby Al-Hassan Al-Nadwi called him on     to repent this, but he went on in his violations recklessly; when the     Tunisians expressed their belief in their religion in the 1970s through the     emergence of the Islamic movement which restored life to mosques nd returned     Islam back to modernist institutions (schools, universities\u2026.) he couldn\u2019t     bear this for a long time and he reconciliated with Leftist movements to     pour his rage over the Islamic movement since early 1980s, threatening with     emptying Tunisia of every Muslim Brotherhood member as long as he is alive.     Since then, Tunisia&rsquo;s prisons has been always hosting Islamists; in 1981,     the sentencing trials included some 500 persons who spent 4 years behind     bars; because they didn&rsquo;t repent this- according to him- he launched a     crackdown on them- two years later- with more rage and force so that his     detentions were up to some 10000 Islamists whose sentences were up to     execution; the crackdown was spearheaded by his Interior Minister who     rebelled against him later and succeeded him in power to release prisoners     and he declared preparing Tunisia for a democratic life and restoring esteem     and respect to Islam and Arabism; people were happy about this and they \u2013     including the Islamic movement- supported this. However, in the first     elections held during the \u00ab\u00a0new era\u00a0\u00bb, in which the Islamic movement     participated with independent slates, given that it wasn&rsquo;t recognized,     although it was demanding legalization since early 1980s, the Islamic     movement garnered most votes, but the regime didn&rsquo;t stop short of rigging     the results only, but it decided to punish the winners through eradicating     them. Moreover, it brought closer the enemies of Islam and gave them power     over education and media institutions, under a plan entitled (drying sources)     based on the fact that eradicating the Islamic movement as a political rival     doesn&rsquo;t take a final shape except through eradicating every thing related to     Islamic culture in the society&rsquo;s values and traditions; it closed thousands     of mosques in administrative, economic and educational institutions, and     banned religious lessons in mosques to extent that performing the prayers at     the mosque became a way of recognizing fundamentalists; also, police     stations were ordered to table monthly statistical rolls of those committing     the prayers especially young men. Prisons were filled with some 30000     Islamic preachers and movement leaders and torture became a systematic     method; also, slow death plans were imposed on prisoners: giving little     water, air and blocking medicine\u2026etc till more than 40 companions died- we     ask Allah to consider them martyrs; also, the prisoners&rsquo; families faced     plans of crunching starvation and siege; the Tunisian woman was forced to     take off the veil in schools, universities, administrations and factories,     even government hospitals were banned from dealing with pregnant veiled     women who are about to give birth; veils are torn apart even in streets; all     these and more were committed by Bourguiba\u00a0 and his successor under     glittering slogans: defending modernism, democracy, the civil society, and     fighting extremism and terrorism, finding a great funding for this from     protectors of Western democracy.\u00a0           With all this hidden scheming against Islam and its followers and against     freedom and real urbanization ( for more information see book: Tunisia:     Injured Islam. written by Sheikh Mohamed Al Hadi Al Zamzami); they have     failed in dragging the movement into the quagmire of violence as it is an     epidemic, not a medicine, and they failed in eradicating religiousness, as     there emerged in the last years a sweeping wave of religiousness whose size     haven&rsquo;t been seen before in the country in terms of its likes, size and     extending to all directions, classes and ages; the veil returned along with     the aspects of Islam and chastity to fill Tunisian streets; also, the     authorities failed completely in alienating or eradicating the movement;     contacts between it and the political opposition fabric with its different     spectrum have recently returned on the basis of defending public freedoms     and equal rights for all Tunisians whatever their trends are; in return, the     authorities took the path of westernization, broadening circles of angry and     resentful people due to looting people&rsquo;s livings, welding mouths shut and     emptying the political and media discourse of every content except hypocrisy     specially after the president finished his three terms three years ago and     he should have left; nevertheless, he insisted on copycatting his ancestor     of a lifelong presidency and he deviated with the constitution in a     referendum that reminds us of Ceausescu and Brezhnev&rsquo;s referendums opening     the way for a lifelong presidency like his Egyptian mate in \u00a0\u00bb a single path\u00a0\u00bb,     defending family interests that inflate day after day working day and night     on looting the public wealth, something that widened the circle of     unemployment even among high graduates and escalated the state of congestion     within the arenas of mainstream political, religious and media repression to     put the country in a state of potential various explosions specially that     authorities have kept on shutting their ears so as not to hear or respond to     all demands of reform and openness, even those simple demands adopted by the     broadest circle of opposition parties ( 18 October movement) which includes     liberals, communists, Islamists, Nationalists and Leftists; these simple     demands are outlined in the following: freedom of expression, freedom of     forming societies and parties, and releasing prisoners.          <strong>2-The Islamic movement in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria went through     different experiences with the ruling regimes in their governments, could     you give us a brief note about points of agreement and disagreement between     the Islamic movement groups in those countries, and possibilities of     cooperation and coordination between them, specially under the geographical     and cultural closeness between the Arab Maghreb countries?     <\/strong>     \u00a0     <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi<\/strong>: The Arab Maghreb countries were     called the Islamic Maghreb; Arabism and Islam in the region&rsquo;s heritage are     about to mix up as we converted to Islam and we got Arabized afterwards; the     more deep Islam is rooted, the more deep is Arabism. Everything targeting     Arabic language and its culture is necessarily targeting Islam and its     civilization.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0These five countries are adopting Sunni Islam according to Ibn Malik&rsquo;s     school- except for a small group of compatriots who converted to Al-Abadyah     and they are integrated into the region&rsquo;s fabric. The region is considered     fronts defending Islam against the Western Major nations:\u00a0 Spain, France and     Italy, which stormed into them aiming to include\u00a0 them and even Christianize     them, but the great religion of Islam defeated them; nevertheless, the     French cultural factor kept- if not increased- its effect after independence     through the elite group that was formed under occupation \u2013 except &#8211; and it     assumed power and the conflict continued between peoples who continued     yearning to the east and a ruling elite that yearned to the West specially     France; although the conflict battlefields are various but this field     remains the hottest and deepest one; this is clear in issues like Iraq and     Lebanon; this means that the conflict over the region&rsquo;s identity is remained     tense till since the occupation came to the region till now; the Islamic     movement has been leading those confronting powers of westernization that     assume power, using it for imposing a westernized identity on the region and     trying to separate it from its Islamic Arab body. This conflict is severely     intensified in Tunisia and Algeria, where it isn&rsquo;t confined to the cultural     linguistic dimensions, but it exceeds it to the religious dimension: a     continuous war against Islam under allegations of modernism; this attributes     the size of violence exercised over Islamists in both countries specially in     1990s, after the Islamic movement in both countries garnered most votes (     April 1989 in Tunisia ) and in 1992 in Algeria. The Moroccan movement has     understood the lesson and decided to retreat to avoid a similar fate,     although the cultural conflict (the identity conflict) in the Far Maghreb is     not raised because of the country&rsquo;s religious nature, giving space for a     possible coexistence with a moderate Islamic movement like the Al-Tawheed     Wal-Islah and its political extension: the Justice and Development, and     imposed the secular movements to recognize- after bitter conflicts- this     identity and to adapt itself with it, in a way or another; therefore, the     size of oppression on the Islamic movement was and is still limited despite     the kinds of oppression and bullying imposed on our brothers in the widest     spread movement of justice and charity, although it adopts a peaceful and     educational method; perhaps because of its intense criticism to policies of     the authorities and the echoing effect on the people; however, the     oppression hasn&rsquo;t crossed the line of adopting policies of eradication, like     what happened in both countries: Algeria and Tunisia, but the latter country     adopted another plan called\u00a0\u00bb drying springs\u00a0\u00bb, based on the fact that the     Islamists must be eventually eradicated given that they are a political     rival in order to end the Islamic cultural heritage in the society, as was     mentioned above. Although the suppression machine in Algeria that claimed     lives of no less than 200000 Algerians, focused its repression on the     Islamic Front and districts that supported it in the elections, it did not     follow the Tunisian method in considering all Islamists terrorists; it left     a space for individual religious exercises, including prayers, veil and     education (Islamic books), to the extent that it kept alive peaceful Islamic     movements and even included some of them in the rule, like the Movement for     the Society of Peace; however, \u00ab\u00a0the drying springs\u00a0\u00bb plan is taking place     there also, but with the lesser fuss; in Tunisia since the beginning of the     independence, the religious education was eradicated represented in Al     Zaytouna mosque which is considered the first institution for a religious     education in Africa after Kairouan; on the day of independence (1956) no     less than 27000 persons were receiving being taught inside it; it was     abolished at once in the name of unifying education, that is Frenchifying     it; something like this happened in Algeria; the religious education system     (the original education) that was founded after the independence and was     similar to Al Zaytouna mosque system and which was a system parallel to the     public school, was abolished in the last years; also, the Arabization     program was stopped despite the bitter conflicts that took place around it,     and presidents were toppled because of it. What you need is only a look at     the Algerian television to know the size of metamorphosis facing the Islamic     Arab identity in Algeria: a non harmonious mix up of Arab and French (for     more information see the book of the Algerian historian Dr. Ahmed Ibn Nouman     : learn identity even from France). The author reports details about a plan     targeting the pillars of identity, leading to a seemingly belief in what     General Degol promised the Far Rightist while convincing them with giving     the Algerians their independence ( give me a 30 years chance and Algeria     will return to you). Anyway, it accepted for the first time to attend the     organization of the Francophone countries.     However, what is apparent is that Islam along the region is on the rise:     mosque goers are doubling even in countries that applied the fiercest plans     of political and cultural eradication like Tunisia; the interest in Islamic     materials, specially in satellite channels is wonderfully increasing;\u00a0 and     the westernized extension is decreasing despite the official support.     Politically speaking, there are some indications that there is a trend     towards reconciliation between the state and the Islamic movement, but it is     in a mixed mood; what is certain is that it is not on the rise or in a     steady growth. This includes a rising tension in the last months with the     justice and charity and arresting hundreds of its supporters and bullying     its Da&rsquo;wa and media actions; also, hundreds of the supporters of the Salafi     call faced a severe oppression and some of them are accused of violence.     Also, hundreds of young men in Tunisia were arrested and faced the     anti-terrorism law for suspecting that they incite themselves on jihad in     Iraq, or open jihad websites.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         In return for this, in Mauritania, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia, prisoners (     thousands in the Algerian reconciliation project led by president Bouteflika)     were released in Mauritania, Tunisia and Libya during the past year where     the latter country released all Muslim Brothers and kept those accused in     violence cases, while Tunisia kept about 500 prisoners in prison, nearly     half of them are Nahda cadres who are mostly leaders and the others are     accused in violence cases.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         There are reports of dialogues and reconciliation projects in Mauritania and     Libya. On the other hand, in Tunisia- the authorities still insist on     denying a presence of political prisoners. They view them as terrorist     criminals and they still reject all Nahda&rsquo;s reform calls, showing a sense of     unreformability, exposing the country to explosions. In Algeria, the     proposed reconciliation project is not exceeding the human dimension;     although it is important, but it does not open the wound to cure the disease,     but it leaves some of its pus; the authorities insist on being biased to the     side that caused the tragedy with stopping the election process ( the army )     clearing it of any responsibility and even dealing with it as if it has     saved the country, while they condemn the victim politically, depriving it     of its rights in the political action, but it reconciles with it humanly,     allowing it to stay alive.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         This is the status quo of the Islamic case in the Arab Maghreb: mixed and     cloudy and searches for a settlement. As long as there is a political denial     of exercising political rights which is focused on a certain movement,     specially when it is peaceful, we are in front of a danger of unpleasant     surprises and an accumulation of spites and possible various reactions     unless the political the political, cultural and media mainstream is opened     to contain all citizens on an equal footing to contribute to serving their     country. That is because the eases that took place- although they are     important- haven&rsquo;t crossed the human dimension to reach the political one:     an exchange of recognition between the country and all society components,     specially the Islamic given that they are the most deeply rooted and well     established side in the society, making recognizing them and reaching     settlements with them a key measure in the progress of retard of the process     of democratic change in a certain country.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Facing the regimes&rsquo; hesitation- if not their refusal- in seriously adopting     the path of a democratic change and their insistence on adopting \u00a0\u00bb a     conditioned democracy\u00a0\u00bb, the general trend of the Islamic movements confirm     their rejecting the method of violence and insisting on a peaceful way     within framework of the existing laws, but the governments do not meet this     warmly, but it appears as if that they want an amount of violence to     continue ( under control) so as to justify the authorities&rsquo; continuing     policies of closed doors and iron fist and to excuse their belonging to the     international anti-terrorism camp, and reaping financing and benefits from     this.     In general, it is clear that violence decreased to a great extent in Algeria     and stopped in Libya, but the domestic closed atmospheres, the rise of     international attacks on Islam and the presence of international jihad     models established new trends seeking force among youth. There are hundreds     of young men arrested in every country for this.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         As for the cooperation between the Islamic movements in this are, it is     limited and did not exceed the level of personal and brotherly relations to     the level of systematic organized relations, because every side is     preoccupied with its state level concerns and because situations are     different and the dominating state of oppression that doesn&rsquo;t provide fields     of organized meetings and exchange of experience.          <strong>3-What is the human rights and humane status quo in Tunisia under     Ben Ali&rsquo;s regime?<\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> it was bad during his ancestor&rsquo;s era,     and its is much worse during his era; the country&rsquo;s history hasn&rsquo;t witnessed     an era like this when the human dignity has been violated, honors were     abused, public manners were ruined and the structure of the family was     ruined to the extent that Tunisia is the only country in the Third World     which is facing the danger of senility and primary schools no longer find     its intakes of children because of abstaining from marriage, birth control     and increasing divorces. Prisons haven&rsquo;t housed such a huge number before (     30 thousand prisoners) while the official discourse is talking day and night     with a language of modernism and human rights, emptying the language of its     content; for example, while torturing has been stably systematized and     followed in all security stations, a decree was issued of teaching the     general declaration of human rights in all schools and even hanging it on     walls of security stations. As for religious rights of Muslims, they have     reached the limit of hunting those committing the prayers and banning the     Islamic book even the classic ones; the Quran was banned and desecrated in     prisons, and the prisoners were denied committing the prayers except during     their specific times. Don&rsquo;t mention thereafter about the freedom of     expression, as all media praise the creator of change and the protector of     the dignity of the country and religion. Don&rsquo;t mention political rights as     the president&rsquo;s approval rating hasn&rsquo;t decreased since he assumed power less     than 95% if it decreased once from about 99 % an so has been his party which     is has been assuming power for 50 years ( the only party in the world     assuming power for such a period) and it left as a kind of favor a 20%     steady rate of parliament seats for the tamed opposition parties to     distribute among themselves although all of them can&rsquo;t manage to garner 5 %     of the votes. What shall I tell you? it is a very low farce with a scenario     and actors, it is even a tragic farce. The Tunisian people certainly deserve     better than this; the proof is that prisons are full of freemen from all     trends, and a plethora of repression groups up to 130 thousand persons who     repress a population of no more than 10 million citizens. Their number     equals one million if compared to the Egyptian population, in addition to a     presence of a political opposition union and student movement but the law of     fear controls with a European, American and Zionist support.          <strong>4-How many detainees are there in Tunisian prisons; what is the     status quo of Tunisian prisons?<\/strong> <strong>Rashid Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong>\u00a0 the abovementioned is enough for     grieving the one. It is true that the number in the early 1990s was about     30000 of the Nahda cadres and leaders in addition to 200 displaced, and that     there remain in prisons nowadays only about 300 of Nahda and they serve long     sentences as if they are sentenced to a slow, gradual death and dozens of     them died due to this; nevertheless, the problem today isn&rsquo;t in those who     are behind bars because their issue is crystal clear and demanding releasing     them is under a national consensus and is called for by the International     Rights Organizations; but the problem lies more in the thousands who were     released from a small prison to an expanded one and are deprived even of the     right of free movement from one place to another, except with a permit and     are denied rights to work in government services and companies; they are     even ordered to appear in a security center periodically. They and their     families are denied even the card of free treatment. But they are despite     the bullying inside small and expanded prisons enjoy high morales and have     memorized the Book of Allah, and they are optimistic that the victory of     Allah will certainly come, and they are admired and appreciated in their     villages, cities and among the next new generations that flock into mosques     in groups. It is a great ordeal that Islam and freedom haven&rsquo;t witnessed     before, but is coming to an end, God willing (and the great tidings are for     the pious) we ask Allah that they be from among them.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <strong>&#8211; There are some who criticize your remaining an opposition in exile,     considering that opposition inside is better and more effective; how far is     the opposition in exile beneficial?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashid Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> the ordeals afflicting followers of     the Da&rsquo;wa in themselves, their money, through throwing them in prisons,     displacing them and killing them are a steady tradition. Allah Exhalted He     Be said \u00a0\u00bb And the rejecters plot against you to arrest you, or to kill you,     or to expel you. And they plot, and God plots, and God is the best of     plotters \u00a0\u00bb Al-Anfal. The truth is that I did not choose to go to exile; I     left the country intending to give a lecture in Germany and invitations     followed each others till the situation in the country became tense after     the authorities rigged the elections; I consulted my brothers who demanded     that I stay abroad until everything becomes clear; after that, detentions     intensified, until an emergence of a leadership inside was considered     impossible; a number of brothers managed to escape through deserts and they     met in a European country while I was staying in Britain without a passport;     they consulted each other on the issue and they decided to have a decision     in exile and they elected an interim leadership and a shura council and a     position of a leader which I assumed. The authorities did not stop short of     including us in the list of international criminals to deport us and weld     our mouths shut, as prisons that managed to contain 30 thousand persons     still have a space for us. We are distributed on about fifty countries; we     kept, thanks to God, the unity of our group and its ideological and     educational aspects and we kept- thanks to God- the movement&rsquo;s cause and     injustices on it alive and we tabled it before all Muslims and human rights     organizations and we aborted the authorities plot of incriminating us and     putting us in terrorism lists; also, these in exile managed to establish a     media work and establish relief institutions to support prisoners&rsquo; families     while the authorities&rsquo; plan is to starve them and exercise a pressure on the     sisters to get divorced from their husbands or to get basically corrupted,     as quoted from the Interior Minister. Also, we contacted the Tunisian     political opposition spectrum in exile and inside and we held joint seminars     that established a joint work \u00a0\u00bb 18 October institution\u00a0\u00bb that was founded     last year to gather the most important opposition movements. These tasks may     be simple and they did not help in changing the status quo; we don&rsquo;t claim     that we left the country to change it through correspondence, because clean     change- not through occupation tanks- won&rsquo;t take place except from inside;     We did not leave the country mainly to change it, but to remain alive, which     is one of our Sharia purposes, and to do any thing useful to Muslims after     that including publishing books, participating in seminars and holding     dialogues like this, which are of God&rsquo;s bounty; they can&rsquo;t be afforded in     prisons which are places that every Muslim should avoid; I replied to an     enthusiastic young man who asked me to return back to homeland that: I spent     five years in prison, I was received two life sentences on absentia while     one is enough, what is the place awaiting me if return today? Is it wise to     add a prisoner to thousands whom we demand their release? It is right that     my chances to have effects from exile are limited but what are the available     chances inside? The trends whatever their directions are- religious or     irreligious- face before assuming power kinds of testing and living in exile     is one of them. The one can only ask stability from Allah in any trench of     testing which he is facing.          <strong>&#8211; What is your evaluation of the performance of Al-Qaeda network;     don&rsquo;t you see that it draws the rag from under moderate Islamic movements     under the extending US and Zionist domination and the massacres happening to     Muslims in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon and others; do you see this a     recession of moderate Islamic thought and a spread of the violence ideology?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashid Al-Ghannoushi: A<\/strong>-we are basically ordained to have a     good opinion about believers. Those familiar with jihad groups in general     and the first generations in particular say that they are religious and they     seek Allah approval with their actions, considering afflictions as actions     for the sake of Allah, fasting at day and praying at night and that they     devoted and sacrificed themselves to Allah Glorified and Exalted be He,     belittling all worldly pleasures, and chose the way leading to the     afterworld, seeking God&rsquo;s bounty and satisfaction; they are our brothers in     religion and we appreciate their concerns about Islam and their defending it     and their nation; we ought to keep their Muslim-on Muslim&rsquo;s rights,     including the right to support, the legitimate support, not the one related     to pre-Islamic beliefs. We talk about them within this part, because it is     not related to souls and intentions, and it does not violate their sanctity,     but it is concentrated on products of their minds, including concepts of     Islam and the status quo of Muslims and the international relations, and     methods of change, here is the serious disorder, or fatal mistakes.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <strong>B<\/strong>&#8211; What I know about Al-Qaeda group is the ideologies     reported from hardliners including Takfir and one-sidedness in viewing Islam     and restricting methods of change to the fighting jihad; this is included in     the method of simplification and strictness specially in complicated issues     like the issue of change. Whatever the epidemics hitting societies, the     group has no cure but takfir and jihad. Because the status quo is severely\u00a0     intermingled, the simplified solutions aren&rsquo;t beneficial, quickly realizing     that the strict moulds can&rsquo;t cure the complications of the status quo. They     declared forming an international front for fighting the Jews and     Christians, regarding as lawful fighting even those who don&rsquo;t fight them     including morning train passengers, civil planes and markets goers as a     revenge on their governments. Then, they retreated, saying that they do not     fight all Christians. The evidence is that they did not target Swedish and     Swiss peoples.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         They declared in Iraq through their representative- Allah&rsquo;s mercy be on him,     excommunicating a group of Muslims: the Shiites: and they launched an over     all war against it; the Shiites- who rule the country and are backed by     many- retaliated with a more severe war against the Sunnis, although the     Sunni scholars inside and outside Iraq renounced the aggression that they     commit in the name of Islam; consequently, the shameful works and reckless     reactions on them ended and they endangered one of the greatest Islamic     countries to a state of disaster and mass destruction in addition to what     the occupation commits and adds to its purposes; this was of the biggest     disasters that befell the contemporary Islam and the fabric of its nation:     identity killing in a blatant challenge to one of greatest rules in fight:     protecting the Muslim blood, and the rule of individual responsibility \u00a0\u00bb no     burdened soul can bear another&rsquo;s burden\u00a0\u00bb, igniting fire of seditions in the     nation&rsquo;s body and presaging the worst repercussions, in a precedent that     hasn&rsquo;t taken place in Islamic history except during the time of the Khariji.          <strong>C:<\/strong> When Lebanon was invaded by the Zionists and the braves     of Hezbollah got out and defeated them and they showed a great bravery,     reviving in the nation the spirit of honour and restored the hurt dignity     and the feelings of chivalry; the Islamic publics took to the streets in     happiness, solidarity and protest, raising the pictures of Al-Sayyed     Nasrallah as a symbol of the brave resistance and the resumed honour;     Al-Qaeda group appeared in the wrong timing as usual with a sense of     insistence on popping out amid the scene, to exclude an isolation in the     nation, and what has it said? It declared supporting Lebanon&rsquo;s people, not     because this is one of the simplest rights from a Muslim on his Muslim     brother, because they aren&rsquo;t considered one of the Muslim sects, but because     they are weak, oppressed people whom the world must support! Without     involvement in defining the religion of these oppressed Lebanese: are they     Jewish or Christians? are the Shiites from among them? Here is the confusion.          <strong>D-<\/strong> But for the injustices targeting Muslims from the     Western powers and but for the procrastination of Muslim rulers and the     spread of ignorance among Muslims, such a confusion and laxness and     strictness wouldn&rsquo;t have happened and wouldn&rsquo;t have found followers; but in     all cases they couldn&rsquo;t harm the moderate broad movement, because strictness     has never been adopted by the Nation as it is too sterile to create a     consensus among its people; the Nation does not have a consensus except on     moderation \u00ab\u00a0and we have made you (true Muslims) a moderate nation\u00a0\u00bb;     therefore, they failed in speaking in the name of Islam and being its     mouthpiece and exercising a guardianship that may narrow what is widened by     Allah and gave His slaves the right to differ and have diligence over it, so     that Islam remains capable of guiding reality whatever its developments and     complications and to contain Muslims, nay all mankind, with its mercy; this     because accountability over creeds is attributed to Allah ( you will return     to me to tell about what you have been differing).          <strong>E-<\/strong> Hamas movement has used its reason and diligence and     chose the fighting method in its dealing with the Zionist enemy and was     excellent, while it chose the democratic peaceful action to deal with its     people through accepting the mechanisms of democracy as a method for rule     and reform; the hard-line group popped up to consider democracy as Kufr and     rebukes Hamas, assuming that democracy is unlawful, and that the only thing     possible for reform is fighting all people. It is a simplistic method while     issues on the ground are very complicated; therefore, the Sharia gave     multiple solutions; it ordered changing evil while it opened more than one     way to achieve this according to what is available. The Messenger of Allah (peace     be upon him) said \u00a0\u00bb Whoever sees something evil should change it with his     hand. If he cannot, then with his tongue; and if he cannot do even that,     then in his heart\u00a0\u00bb the regulations of this rule show that every way to     change evil leads to its aggravation is not a virtue but evil. The size of     disasters caused by the Takfir method adopted by the hard-line groups is     obvious; they didn&rsquo;t press for lifting injustices over the Islamic nation,     but they led to more instigation on Islam and its people and to distort its     picture and isolate its followers and minorities. And So does the fool     against himself severer than what the one does against his enemy.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <strong>F-<\/strong> The consequences of those adopting- as a method of     reform- Takfir and fighting atheists and those disagreeing with their sect,     and the moderate method as a method of upbringing and distinguishing between     the fighting infidels- a small group- and the peaceful infidels- they are     many. Allah Exalted He Be said \u00a0\u00bb Allah does not forbid you respecting those     who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have     not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal     with them justly;\u00a0\u00bb Al-Mumtahanah; and distinguishing between monotheists and     atheists. The result of the call of reform in Egypt for example is clear-     with commitment to a peaceful method, gradation and upbringing, as an only     way for dealing with the nation&rsquo;s problems whatever their complications are,     against fighting those attacking Muslim nations, compared with the fruits of     the method of declaring jihad against the state and its aides and then     fighting all. The first method led Egypt- despite the huge plotting and     obstacles- to a broad development for the Islamic movement through all     sections, classes and authorities to the extent that a Western scholar said     about Egypt \u00a0\u00bb Egypt has adopted Islamism to the neck\u00a0\u00bb, and it is near     certain that the Muslim Brotherhood has become the most important popular     power and the widest in representation among Egyptian elites, and that the     issue of its reaching the stage of assuming power is- God willing- is a     matter of time. Add to this its fighting the occupying invaders in the canal     and fighting in Palestine, and supporting the militants defending their     homelands everywhere: in Lebanon and others; on the other hand, the     hard-line movement ended after a long journey of disasters they afflicted     them and the Egyptian society through them, to enable the repression     services to dominate people and to impose an emergency law under the pretext     of fighting terrorism, indulging the country in corruption. The only benefit     for the leaders of these groups is that they learned in prisons and became     certain that religion is wider than what they imagined, and the reality on     the ground is more complicated than what they thought, and they did not     hesitate in declaring there adopting the right path and repenting the     darkness they experienced in understanding religion and understanding the     reality; they returned to the method of Islamic moderation, apologizing to     the Egyptian society for what they committed against it in their enthusiasm     and youth accompanied by little understanding, saying this in published     books. What the hard-line movement and the nation reaped was just igniting     seditions and Takfirs inside and instigating foreign powers from the outside.     How can it pull the rag from under the moderate movement; as a matter of     fact, the nation is infallible as a whole from deviation.          <strong>7- The important issue that all people agreed on is that the fatal     epidemic on the Islamic action is the absence of freedom in its full meaning.     The successful model for an Islamic action depends on a space of freedom and     political and economic security. The question is why do some Islamic     movements fear from approving the political freedom which is available for     all as long as the Islamic action depends on it? Specially the secular     section that does not want to consider freedom to be serving Islam; on the     contrary, they delude others that it is contrary to Islam?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashed el-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> It is a confusing question .This sect     of Muslim preachers who lived in prisons till they got bored of them, and     executioners have been continuously whipping; why are they- the victims of     repression- still fearing freedom and apprehending democracy and their     effect on Islam: this reminds me of a Bedouin who was angry with the     companions of the messenger of Allah- Allah&rsquo;s peace be uon them- and he     prayed \u00a0\u00bb O Allah have mercy me and have mercy on Mohamed and don&rsquo;t have     mercy on any one else\u00a0\u00bb and the messenger peace be upon him laughed and said     \u00a0\u00bb you have narrowed something wide, brother\u00a0\u00bb. Why don&rsquo;t they want the mercy     of freedom which Allah made his slaves love and which was one of the     purposes of sending the last messenger \u00a0\u00bb He will enjoin on them that which     is right and forbid them that which is wrong. He will make lawful for them     all good things and prohibit for them only the foul; and he will relieve     them of their burden and the fetters that they used to wear (Al-A`r\u00e2f:157).     Why do they disdain that it includes all?. if there are two options: that it     includes all, or that no one enjoys it: then let it be the second one:     Shamshoun&rsquo;s option is!; is the motive of some of those apprehensive of     freedom is that enemies of religion may use it as a method for attacking and     distrusting religion and its teachings; if it is so, alas; do they consider     that religion is so weak and that Islam is such a cheap commodity! Don&rsquo;t     they remember that Islam spread in all civilizations and argued with their     scholars and philosophers; history hasn&rsquo;t recorded that any Muslim was     defeated in a free debate; Muslims were witnesses for the right on creature;     they studied all creeds and they took and gave them and they seized the     widest place and contained entire civilizations and contained military     invasions which they later changed them into fighters in a war against     enemies and conquerors. While the nations of Islam had been at the bottom.     Can any wise man imagines that such a resonant challenge \u00a0\u00bb Say (O Muhammad     Peace be upon him), \u00ab\u00a0Produce your proof if you are truthful\u00a0\u00bb was revealed in     empty castles, or in a lifeless valley? Can a reliable wrestler declare a     challenge and request a duel while lacking a qualified rival? Is being the     last prophet meaningful except that the all-Knower put in the structure of     this religion an innate strength that not only guarantees keeping it but it     guarantees its leading all religions?. Do not fear for Islam from freedom;     it is the healthy climate in which it recovers and flourishes, while it is     chocked to death in rotten climates, like what happened in countries that     adopted communism. You may be right in fearing for yourselves like the one     who used to live for long in darkness, fearing his sight on sun light in the     first glimpse. Those who pity for Islam from what the secular groups may do     if they enjoyed freedom, should before this fear themselves and Islam itself     from the continuing eras of tyranny that led Islam, its civilization and its     nation to deterioration. It is stunning that nowadays trend of migration is     to outside Muslim nations not to them, and that Islam enjoys prosperity and     an increasing extension in non Muslim countries due to enjoying the     blessings of freedom and democracy which are in harmony with the spirit and     purposes of Islam, while its climate waned and its people fled because of     the dominant repression in most \u00a0\u00bb Muslim countries\u00a0\u00bb to the extent that one     of the most prominent reformers of the age declared that bitter fact after     returning from a visit to Western countries that \u00a0\u00bb I left behind me Islam     and I found here Muslims\u00a0\u00bb. Fear freedom for Islam is an illusion that must     come to end, and a deviation that the Muslim mind must be freed of,     specially that the situation on the ground shows that our peoples remained-     since they converted to Islam- adhering to it so much. After more than 150     years of westernization in Algeria and Tunisia, nothing confronted the     Islamic tide in the first elections except the state tyranny. Even those     little secular parties, they were exceptions that emerged in an exceptional     stage will be overpowered by Islam and their followers who were fascinated     by the West will return to Islam. Thus, we saw them amending their agendas     to be in accordance with Islam and their leaders go to mosques nd go to the     MB chairman seeking support. Why do you fear freedom? Is it from competition?     It is a confusing matter which can only be attributed to a long living in     darkness. Islam is light and light does not fear darkness. Suppose that most     people fell in deviation because of freedom especially while living at a     time the means of communication are widespread and no ideology can be kept     in the dark; suppose that most of the nation strayed because of this     freedom- an assumption that clashes with the principle that Islam is the     religion of primordial nature, we should- in this case also- be more     interested in keeping freedom as being a condition for returning people back     to Allah&rsquo;s religion and awakening them and removing ignorance that hid right     from them.          <strong>8-Isn&rsquo;t it time to declare frankly that Nahda Movement is ready to     forget the past and return back to homeland to participate in developing it     and reforming some of its affairs after it became clear that the movement     leaders staying in exile does not benefit, but harms the cause and causes     enmities and reduces the chances a national reconciliation?     <\/strong>     Rashed Al-Ghannoushi: Since 1981, when the Islamic movement \u00a0\u00bb previously     called the Islamic Trend \u00a0\u00bb and currently called Nahda, emerged, it has been     seeking legalization and calling for a reconciliation with the state and its     people and its religion and to recognize all its components, without     discrimination, exclusion or falsification; but the state remained shutting     its ears from hearing all calls for reform, and responded with continuing     repression, displacement and going to extremes in mounting every     international wave for launching the war on Islam. Egyptian people-     specially the new Islamic generations- knew little about repression and     didn&rsquo;t knew repression when it was in its prime time; so it is difficult for     them to imagine the kind of repression that befell Muslim people and freedom     supporters, specially since early 1990s. you should- to be aware of the     current Tunisian condition- imagine yourselves living in Egypt&rsquo;s 1950s and     1960s and more than this specially on the religious level even with the     intensity of the security political repression; Islam: as a culture,     heritage, rituals and beliefs wasn&rsquo;t eradicated as Al-Azhar remained working     and it even expanded; the Islamic researches centre remained with Ghazali,     Sayed Sabiq and Islamic writers; even Egypt that was copycatting the West     led the East and although communism spread, but Arabism of Egypt wasn&rsquo;t     harmed and Islam kept its usual positions centers and the conflict leaned     basically towards its political field. On the other hand, repression in     Tunisia did not stop short of the political arena for excluding political     rivals through security measures- where detentions included more than thirty     thousand persons in a population not reaching 9 millions. The repression did     not stop at this, but it was within a comprehensive plan of eradication and     drying springs, as mentioned above. Therefore, it was difficult for the     country to retreat from a plan that became its ideology in all its     institutions and- on its basis- political powers were categorized between a     friend and an enemy: those backing me or those backing terrorism. Also, the     country adopted this strategy as an international policy which she boasts of     in all international and regional meetings and does its best to\u00a0 export it     as being an elixir and cure for eradicating the epidemic of the age:     fundamentalism, with insisting on refusing any discrimination between a     moderate Islamist and a hardliner, considering it a distribution of roles.     They adopted it as an international policy to benefit from it in setting     aside every foreign pressure for the sake of freedom and human rights     shielded with fighting the fundamentalist danger and terrorism; and they     took it as a method for receiving Western aid under the pretext of fighting     terrorism, specially that the Tunisian neighborhood was feared during the     1990s and the borders of southern Europe were threatened: Algeria was     teeming with violence and Libya was in the other camp. Therefore, relations     with Tunisia must be preserved with their defects; they sealed with it- in     the peak of its repression- the first partnership agreement with a country     in the South. However, these situations have witnessed changes during the     last years. Tunisia lost its strategic importance with lifting the blockade     on Libya and the stability of situations in Algeria. Also, the Tunisian     society contained the fierce attack and the main political powers discovered     the extent of the trick which they the authorities spread to extend its     domination over all; ties of dialogue between it and Islamists took place     and developed as mentioned above into joint seminars and activities; on the     other hand, the spite and hate increased on authorities due to their     institutions various kinds of looting and corruption while living pressures     were intensified on people. The regime gets more isolated for fear of a coup     making all calls for reform useless, something similar- regarding this- to     the situations in Egypt. The coming few years or even months may witness     important changes in more than one Arab country, because the degradation and     deterioration are severe.\u00a0\u00bb Allah&rsquo;s decree will always prevail, but most     among mankind know it not\u00a0\u00bb.          <strong>9-Don&rsquo;t you see that under the US terrible attack on every thing in     our nations, there is no meaning for opposing rulers (who are basically     subjected to US and European dictations) and that nowadays pressing issue is     establishing the widest possible national coalition to confront- even in the     minimum- the Western cultural, economic and ideological pressures? and that     giving an interest to the ordinary citizen and to the torn out generations     is more important than seeking rule or seeking a little foothold on the     political arena in a country like Tunisia where values and manners are     missing and family and human ties are disintegrated and sins and forbidden     matters are unprecedentedly spread? from where does reform start?     <\/strong>     Rashed el-Ghannoushi: in front of the all out wide attack that faces the     region to the extent of the return of a direct occupation which was thought     to be something of the past for the nation. Yesterday, I was stunned when I     saw Western fleets reaching Lebanon&rsquo;s port after they left above in early     1980s; they are returning again after 25 years though they are under UN     flags. The United Nations has never been friendly to the Islamic nation!.     When has the UN adopted justice?! Isn&rsquo;t it a game in the hands of the major     powers?! It was the one that offered Palestine to the international     criminals, the Zionists; its injustices include the fact that the body     governing the fate of the world \u00a0\u00bb the Security Council \u00a0\u00bb doesn&rsquo;t include     among its permanent members that possess the veto right one single Muslim     country; they came to guard the Zionist entity- the dagger with which they     stabbed the heart of the Nation- after signs of weakness appeared on it and     was defeated in front of one single group of the Nation&rsquo;s groups; what will     happen if they let the whole Nation deal with it?. So they decided to send     armies to protect it, while it was- in the primetime of its strength-     refusing any protection so as to be free to do what ever it desires;     nowadays, after it was bombarded for one month and its weakness appeared, it     must be protected by the same powers that created it. Thus, Lebanon is added     to Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. Today ( 24 &#8211; 8 &#8211; 2006 ) in Herald     Tribune, senior professor in Munich university, Gulian Lindley-Franch, sends     a confusing question\u00a0\u00bb why do we see the best armies in the world facing     difficulties in front of enemies that they defeated in the 19th Century?     Israel failed in front of Hezbollah militia, And America and Britain were     drowned in the Iraqi quagmire, and the North Atlantic Treaty     Organization(NATO) faces heavy pressures in Afghanistan. France is so     concerned about the repercussions of its intervention in Lebanon\u00a0\u00bb; he     considers as a solution for this problem- not evacuating the aggressors from     the Muslim Nations- but that the Western armies change their military     strategy to be in accordance the guerrilla war strategy.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         It is crystal clear that this professor does not speak about a specific     terrorist group but he is speaking about a war which has been launched since     the 19th Century: we defeated these peoples in the 19th Century; how do we     fail in defeating them nowadays? What this great professor isn&rsquo;t aware of is     that the tolls for victory in wars are not machines, but wills. The     mechanisms of the West are undoubtedly more developed than they were during     the 19th Century when they invaded nearly all the Islamic Nation. However,     the kind of fighting men and their values and the social fabric in which     they were brought up \u00a0\u00bb the family \u00a0\u00bb are different from the values that were     concentrated on material, pleasure and consumption to the extent that The     Guardian Newspaper published yesterday a frightening picture about the     outbreak of the phenomenon of addiction among more than half the British     young males and females and sanatoriums house about half a million addicts     for treatment. Israel is no difference from this as it is a Western society;     the rate of secularization is very high in these societies where there is no     value for anything except pleasure and lust; therefore, we saw how elite     units in the army were defeated in front of Muslim youth who narrated     wonderful stories about the weakness of these elite members like children     when danger besieges them.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0\u00bb The Jewish professor Martin van Creveld- a professor of military studies     in the faculty of history in the Hebrew University and a top specialist in     the military strategy, warned earlier from the collapse that the Zionist     entity and society experiences, and the collapse of the army morales and the     retreat of its abilities in a way that questions realizing a possible     victory in any a coming military confrontation with the Arabs. In an     interview that Giora Ayalon of the newspaper ( Imtsa Khdira ) held with him     and was published on 8\/3\/2002 AD, van Creveld delivered extremely serious     speeches around the future of the army and the Zionist entity. The following     is excerpts of what he said, hopefully they will wake up some of those     defeatists in the Arab world:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0\u00bb What is happening to us nowadays, happened with the Americans in Vietnam,     and the Israeli army in Lebanon, and the Russians in Afghanistan, and this     what will happen to us once again, and this what will happen to the     Americans in Afghanistan .. The Israeli army is nowadays on the wrong side,     in the side in which it is doomed to fail\u00a0\u00bb.          \u00a0\u00bb We have a force but we can&rsquo;t make use of most of this force; even if we     used it, its success is doubted\u00a0\u00bb .<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0\u00bb You can notice the deterioration of situations during the last years and     how a scandal that followed a scandal and a failure follows is followed by a     failure; the men refuse to enlist in the military service, and the soldiers     cry over graves; in my view, this weeping is one of the strangest things; if     it were in my power, I would ban airing these scenes and these footages. On     the other hand (the Palestinian side), you see a strong desire of revenge,     and high morales; you can only compare funerals to know who have a firmer     will and higher morales; they lament among us while those demand revenge\u00a0\u00bb.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         It is clear that the Zionist entity- like other Zionist entities- lives a     phase of disintegration and deterioration. The founding generation that held     the project has come to an end and was succeeded by well-to-do spoiled     generations that seek nothing but living. The sex and financial scandals at     the top of the Zionist hierarchy is only an illustration of the extent of     the expansion and depth of the levels of secularization among Zionists. On     the other hand, the Islamic nation is witnessing a religious awakening led     by the moderate movement that combines both religion and mind, faith and     knowledge, and between the worldly pleasures and the hereafter, raising the     levels of sacrifice to unprecedented levels, and driving secularization     projects to recession and senility.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         When Creveld was asked a question about the Israeli army situation; what     will happen to the army if it is summoned to fight a regular army like Syria     or Lebanon?     Creveld answered that: I guess that it will escape; if a war like 1973 war     broke out, most of the army will escape\u00a0\u00bb.      \u00ab\u00a0We turned from a people that was famous for its boldness and strength into     a people famous for weeping and lamenting. The Other are aware of this     situation. Hassan Nasrallah said that the Israelis love life so much; Arafat     also said that the Jews are strong outside and weak inside. Both of them are     true one hundred percent. We are the same people of the past, but     circumstances changed and turned us into what we are nowdays\u00a0\u00bb.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         What is clear is that Islam nowadays- not terrorism- is the targeted one;     Blair&rsquo;s speech in a lecture in The United States was full of confirming     launching a war of values, and that their values are the highest ones and     that they must eventually triumph over Islamic values that he described as     radical but when scrutinizing, he means only the real Islam.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         This is a situation that imposes on us returning to the stage of national     liberation that requires rallying all powers that want to defend the     homeland, religion, the Nation and the dignity to confront- within wide     national fronts- this new imperialist attack against us under the flag of     the New Middle East. However, this time the substitute should be a     democratic one instead of these rotten situations of weakness that we     experienced, making us unable to even issue statements of condemnation and     from holding the League&rsquo;s honorary meetings that deteriorated to far below     than this and began sending signals of encouragement to the occupation like     what happened in Lebanon, and opened air and sea paths and aided it; this     time, there should be a democratic substitute through rallying all national     powers within fronts to confront the aggressors; the substitute should be a     democratic one in which power is in the hands of people based on citizenship     and pluralism and power sharing through ballot boxes without exclusion,     suppression, monopoly or repression.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         The problem in this strategy lies in the fact that the ruling regimes oppose     it, making the conflict having two fronts: a front against occupation and     the other against our representatives who rule us and who consider just a     protest march against the occupation of Lebanon, Palestine or Iraq as a     revolution that will overthrow their rule or something that may instigate     the anger of their masters on them; they mobilize their armies on the     marches instead of protecting the borders, and they unleash their dogs on     proponents of liberation. Being conscious of this makes us fully aware of     the fact that there is no option in front of us if we are serious in     confronting this all out attack on the Nation: either to submit to the logic     of these regimes which have already consumed all their legitimacy and being     satisfied with the crumbs of freedom and marches in closed areas like     Al-Azhar, or that we rebel, refuse and insist on exercising our rights     instead of being content with demanding them, as Tunisian fighter Monsef Al     Marzouqi said. If we accept that the external front with the enemy has its     cost of martyrs, why do not we accept that the domestic front for liberation     has its cost of martyrs like those martyred while taking to the streets     because of insisting on holding peaceful marches. Why do Palestinians,     Lebanese, Iraqis and Afghans die and others do not die while supporting them     and demanding their rights through peaceful means, the most useful though     they seem to be surrender, while it is not. Modern revolutions have been     made by street movements, strikes of syndicates and general strikes were     made by the street. Can any regime resist a general strike staged by party     and union fronts; that the prophet peace be upon him raised jihad in word     above other kinds of jihad; he said: \u00a0\u00bb The highest form of Jihad is to speak     the truth in the face of an unjust ruler.\u00a0\u00bb Which is very significant on the     importance of peaceful jihad as a culture and as a media establishing for     resistance and blessing public movements, marches, sit-ins and general     strikes with the command of the national fronts that include representatives     of all political, union, youth, feminist and cultural powers on the basis of     citizenship to topple mafia regimes that dominate our nation and establish     real democratic regimes that make our nation keep up with world powers which     we are very far from \u00a0\u00bb you are the best nation raised up among mankind \u00ab\u00a0;     there is no space for this \u00ab\u00a0goodness\u00a0\u00bb unless these rotten regimes are     toppled. This our nation&rsquo;s priority nowadays: exercising a pressure on these     regimes through street powers led by national fronts, to force them to be     upright and straightforward, to express the will of the nation regarding     independence, transparency, accountability and circulation of power through     ballot boxes without any exclusion, and distributing wealth fairly and     confronting the serious imperialist tide and exerting the utmost support for     resistance movements in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon, and establishing     international coalitions with all powers resisting this imperialist tide; if     they responded to the street pressures and the will of the nation, then this     is what we desire- something distant and quasi-impossible- as these regimes     or at least most of them exceeded the reform stage &#8211; or they must be toppled     as being the most impending priority.          <strong>10-You have criticized Mr. Sayed Qotb&rsquo;s thought; are there any     changes in your criticism against martyr Qotb&rsquo;s thought; do you really     believe that he is a main reason for the emergence of the phenomenon of     violence in the Muslim communities?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashed el-Ghannoushi-<\/strong> Mr. Sayed Qotb is one of the icons of     the Nation; he wrote with his blood the most wonderful contemporary Islamic     epics of thought that will remain effective along generations his likes of     extraordinarily great scholars: Al Ghazali, Ibn Taimiyya, Malik, Ibn Hanbal,     Al Shafie, Abi Hanifa, Ibn Roshd, Mohamed Abdou, AlAfghani Reda and Al Banna     and others. The merits of the great intellectuals include their becoming in     the course of time icons for more schools rather than being individuals;     this is because of the enrichment and multidimensionality of their thought,     making them a source of kinds of controversy while interpreting their texts     on different trends; followers of every trend draw the intellectual to their     lines, interpreting his legacy according to their ideology and to support     their doctrine. These interpretations may be miles away or close to the     origin; and the founder of the school isn&rsquo;t necessarily responsible for     these interpretations, specially if the founder&rsquo;s legacy has a refined     literary nature which draws him closer to a man of letters and an artist     rather than a scholar who is controlled by academic research regulations;     this is the dominant condition of the discourse of the legacy of martyr     Sayed Qotb may Allah have mercy on him; he is a great man of letters;     literature was his entrance to Islam and to Islamic studies, making his     Qur&rsquo;anic contemplations closer to a refined art, philosophical     contemplations and strong arguments against methods of secularization which     were on the process of expansion, victory and aspirations to contain Islam;     his legacy- huge parts of it are a refined political struggle literature-     incites to revolution to topple tyrants and pre-Islamic beliefs. In general,     the man dedicated his life to offering a general Islamic theory around Islam     and its systemizing life and its concepts towards the Nation&rsquo;s conditions     and its surrounding International situations, suggesting a method for a     change towards the required substitute. The advantage of this vision is that     it is greatly luring due to its comprehensiveness, radicalism and refined     literary discourse and a revolution against thee situations; this man     baptized them with his blood when he was martyred for them, making me when I     was a young man read his writings enthusiastically as if I were attracted by     a Sufi, with nervous tension, revolutionary rashness and a readiness to     fight all the world, after the world had two colors: white which is Islam-     only like this with its believers, and a black which is the rest of the     world and ideologies and every concept of Islam other than this concept,     making it vulnerable to be described as pre Islamic beliefs, and charged of     submission to methods and dictations of the contemporary pre-Islamic     civilization. This makes holding a dialogue very difficult between the     campaign of this concept and those violating them inside or outside Islamic     circles; this is not free even of preparations settling the rows even     through jihad.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         It is clear that the defect of this concept lies basically in its lacking     any dose of relativity, because any discrimination in Islam between the     apparent clear rules- a few- and those that have more than one     interpretation- so many. This made this great legacy under various     interpretations: Some of them are takfiris, specially this thought was     issued amid a fierce political and ideological conflict between the Islamic     movement that paved ground for change and its military wing that alone made     use of the rising international leftist wave, considering it a supporter for     resisting imperialism, and an ideological justification for resisting the     past \u00a0\u00bb brothers\u00a0\u00bb, giving the opportunity to the Left powers to seize this     situation and pushing an existing political and social revolution towards an     other irreligious ideological and cultural dimensions. It is not amazing     under such an oppressed condition that faced the Islamic movement in front     of the fierceness of hostile ideologies and their seeking the support of the     state&rsquo;s oppressive powers, to witness such shift in the prison in a great     man of letters like Sayed Qotb: he was renowned among literary critics and     was a student of Al Akkad, and he was recognized as a social revolutionary     men of letters who produced revolutionary Islamic writings distinguished by     their defending workers and farmers and their stormy campaign against     feudalism and the Capitalist Alliance; this was clearly illustrated in his     articles comprised in his published book \u00ab\u00a0Islamic studies\u00a0\u00bb and in his book \u00a0\u00bb     The Battle of Islam and Capitalism\u00a0\u00bb and in his very important book \u00a0\u00bb The     Social Justice\u00a0\u00bb, to the extent that the revolution leaders offered him a     ministerial position, as he is one of the revolution&rsquo;s god fathers and     theorists.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         It wasn&rsquo;t amazing that this rebel man of letters who is nearer to the Left,     turned in the prison from a revolutionary social approach to more     ideologically radicalism one and a persistent conflict between Islam and the     pre Islamic beliefs on every field, considering that the doctrinal problem     of the Nation is that it hasn&rsquo;t understood yet \u00a0\u00bb There is no god but Allah     \u00ab\u00a0; thus, it must be taught again this doctrinal logic as it is a method of     life; in this new context, he reinterpreted several sections of \u00ab\u00a0in the     shadows of the Qur&rsquo;an\u00a0\u00bb and he died before finishing the other sections; this     approach reached its peak and last formation in his book \u00ab\u00a0Limestones\u00a0\u00bb; those     who write about Sayed Qotb mostly restrict themselves to the writings of the     second stage of his age, specially the \u00ab\u00a0Limestones\u00a0\u00bb stage, and forget about     what he produced during the first stage- both the literary, specially \u00a0\u00bb the     features of artistic photography in the Quran\u00a0\u00bb, \u00a0\u00bb Afterlife scenes in the     Quran \u00a0\u00bb and his revolutionary social literature like his masterpieces \u00a0\u00bb the     conflict between Islam and capitalism \u00a0\u00bb and \u00a0\u00bb the social justice in Islam \u00a0\u00bb     which was praised by India&rsquo;s great scholar Abul Hassan Al Nadwi and     considered it the best book in its topic. I think that the contemporary     Islamic movement within the imperialist attack is badly in need for     including the first stage of the Islamic productions of Sayed Qotb within     its educational curricula ; they have a material that addresses a wide gap     in the new Islamic thought structure, which is this revolutionary dimension     that the martyred Imam Sayed Qotb discovered in Islam as a Quran and Sunna     and produced it in a refined literary formation, with necessarily     discriminating in the writings of the second stage between circumstantial     which is characterized by nature of the circumstances of the conflict     between the Islamic movement and its rebel affiliates, a conflict eventually     inside the Islamic movement, which the leftist secular left-wing movement     pressed for pushing it away from Islam and used it as a tool for repressing     it and its supporters after the revolution adopted the basics of the Islamic     project: the social justice, the agricultural reform to defend the     grassroots who were crushed by feudalism, and eliminating the social and     political powers which were orbiting around it; and also returning Egypt to     Arabism as a substitute for its previous Western direction; however,     although the revolution adopted the basics of the Islamic movement program     even what is negative like dissolving parties and gathering change powers in     one single gathering that leads the mission of change and development as     fast as possible; however, in the midst of the conflict and reactions and     with the effect of leftist elements that worked for filling the ideological     space, this program was emptied of its Islamic background and there were     directions towards the secular and even Marxist ideologies. It wasn&rsquo;t     amazing that at a time Sayed Qotb&rsquo;s thought was published during these tense     climates of conflict, that many Islamic youth were sent to prison due to     quickly embracing a takfiri thought that considers as lawful killing rulers     because they are considered adopting pre-Islamic beliefs, and brand     societies as pre Islamic societies.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         However, to what extent can the great man of letters Sayed Qotb be blamed     for those who interpreted his legacy in such a way? and to what extent can     circumstances be blamed for the change that led to the conflict of     incompatibility that took place and the change that this great man of     letters experienced and for the rashness of young men and their     interpretations of his legacy focusing on one side at the expense of the     other?; nowadays, after a bitter journey from a conflict between the     revolution and the Muslim Brotherhood and their sons, wise men on both sides     realized that the conflict was not definitely necessary and that it harmed     all- Egypt in particular- and the national and Islamic movements; the only     ones who benefited are the enemies of Islam; all realized that the republic     and the revolution is a legitimate son to the Islamic movement and that the     Islamic project was the one that founded the ideology of the revolution     against feudalism and centralism of the Arab Islamic Egypt and the project     of Arab unity and Arab League and the agricultural reform, spreading     education and health and Arab leadership of Egypt and resisting the     imperialist project represented particularly in resisting it destructive     mastermind, the Zionist entity: around all this ties began- since late     1980s- to be strengthened between the national and Islamic movements,     leading to establishing an institution for joint struggle \u00a0\u00bb the Islamic     National Conference\u00a0\u00bb, a joint struggle for the same goals with adding the     democratic dimension that the project lacked and resisting the same enemies,     to bypass what Sayed Qotb named in another context the grim conflict:     between Arabism and Islam, the conflict that Sayed Qotb- May Allah have     mercy on him- did not spare any effort in his second stage to ignite the     conflict between both of them, contrary to the ideology of the Muslim     Brotherhood of the martyred Imam- May Allah Have Mercy on him- and     materialized in the Arab unity paper, one of the latest papers of the key     view that they approved.          <strong>11-What are the most important incidents and schisms that hit Nahda     Movement; where are Abd Al-Fattah Mourou and Al-Gourshi?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoush:<\/strong> Mr. Abd Al-Fattah Mourou is one of the     most prominent Founding Fathers of the Tunisian Islamic movement; he is     generous, educator, man of letters, and an excellent speaker. He worked hard     all over the country to spread awareness of the truths of Islam, stirring     people and rallying them around Islam and the movement&rsquo;s institutions. It     was natural- under an extremist secular and police state which is repressive     authoritarian, corrupt and tyrant- that he is arrested despite his     well-known moderation- to remain in prison for more than three years; he was     not released except after he was on the brink of death, after suffering from     serious diseases: high blood pressure, disorder in heartbeats and the     diabetes. Later, he experienced a life of alienation for several years; when     the elderly tyrant was toppled and his successor declared a breakthrough     plan that included Islamists while they were in the midst of the crisis,     sheikh Abd Al-Fattah quickly declared supporting\u00a0 in the name of the     movement according to the declared official statements and promises;     nevertheless, on first test of those promises in the first elections, they     collapsed and they returned to their old habits; 99.98 % was the rate of     votes allegedly garnered by the president and his party that garnered seats,     while the Islamic movement- the real winner- wasn&rsquo;t only deprived of its     right but an eradication plan was decided and a plan for drying the springs     of Islam was decided against it, summoning for this all ant-Islam and     anti-Arabism movements that garnered nothing in the elections, to launch in     the early 1990s, a comprehensive campaign; the movement&rsquo;s leadership     included tens of thousands who fled the attack through migration and there     those whose health problems prevented them from migration declaring     withdrawal- topped by sheikh Abd Al-Fattah- whom the brothers respected and     evaluated and knew from his health condition since the first ordeal that he     is no longer prepared to any more ordeals. S we know, he spared no effort in     easing the ordeal on those suffering from it along with their families. He     isn&rsquo;t allowed to do any activity outside the circle of his career- a     successful lawyer, and he is even continuously under close security     surveillance; he is banned from traveling even to the perform pilgrimage in     the Holy House of Allah. There is no talk in Tunisia about Da&rsquo;wa activities     of any kind, even Qur&rsquo;anic lessons are banned. Mosques are closed just after     performing the prayers and preaching in them without a licence from the     Prime Minister is an actionable crime which may lead to imprisonment. The     official media is low and the official policy is dead. Culture is nearly     identified with prostitution; however, outside law controls, a wide Islamic     awakening and active political and union are acting attracting a multi     talented man like sheikh Morou with his distinguished position.          As for the colleague journalist and intellectual, Salah Al Gourshi, he     withdrew from the movement in early 1970s, with number of respected brothers     due to ideological disagreements related to the extent of commitment to     Sharia; they were known at that time as the Islamic Left which is originally     attributed to Egyptian intellectual, Hassan Hanafi, and they were later     known as Progressive Islamists, including Dr. Hamida Al Nifr; they are     nowadays activists in the civil society institutions, doing their best in     developing the Islamic thought according to their method. Mr. Salah has     activities in defending human rights, including prisoners&rsquo; rights, in his     leading position in the Tunisian association of human rights and as renowned     journalist. We ask Allah to guide us and guide them; the arena for serving     Islam can contain every one with good intentions and straight methods.           <strong>12-More than 25 years ago, the Nahda Movement was founded; what is     your evaluation of the Nahda Movement and its performance in 25 years?\u00a0 the     Nahda Movement: evaluation &amp; achievements?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> the Nahda Movement is one of a few     political movements &#8211; as we know &#8211; that reformed its path more than once to     spot what is right and what is wrong. It released its latest evaluation     after its conference in 1995 in which it spotted on itself and on others-     authorities and opposition- mistakes that contributed to what the country     faced including a serious crisis and a suffocating blockage. The mistakes     that the movement spotted in itself included: a weakness in estimating the     repercussions of the International situations on local situations specially     concerning the Gulf War in 1991, and a carelessness in consultation and     cooperation with the opposition, and not controlling the rashness toward the     election arena in 1989, causing an unbearable disorder in the body of the     existing balances. This was the same mistake committed by the Islamic Front     later on. The Islamic movements that ran for elections benefited from that     lesson, for example in Morocco and in Egypt, and they decreased their     participation.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         As for the achievements of the Islamic movement \u00a0\u00bb Nahad\u00a0\u00bb, they may seem to     be none and over specially- which isn&rsquo;t true- specially after the ordeal     that began in 1981 till nowadays &#8211; except for a few breakthroughs in 1984     then in 1988, but the suppression machine was resumed with full efficiency     since 1991 until this day against people-!.No. The ordeal- whatever its     aggravation is- but it does not destroy or eradicate original calls; it     consolidates it and boosts its legitimacy if it resisted and persevered its     principles and kept its unity; the movement succeeded in all this, thanks     God; the blow that does not kill you, strengthens you. We are sure that the     deep effect left by the movement in its environment is so deep that it can&rsquo;t     be eradicated by any blind tyranny that terrifies people to the extent that     they leave any symbol or sign that may link them to you, and they hide even     while committing the prayers, fasting reading Quran or wearing the veil and     they may pretend that they attack them to survive, but this does not prevent     them from a passive resistance against tyranny, waiting for calamities that     mat destroy it; When they feel that the tyrant is waning, they begin to move,     attacking in whispers, and then in public and they then rebel; this is what     has started to happen nowadays through the emergence of a violent wave of     religiousness that amazed the enemies of Islam who put and carried out the     plan of drying the springs and eradication. No wise man who knows how much     these people are faithful to those who defended religion and served them and     were harmed for this; no wise man can imagine that such a movement that     served its people for more than two decades to the extent that every     district in a village or city and no school, faculty, administration or     factory remained without supporters and preachers, specially in schools and     universities where the majority is young men- students and pupils- supported     their movement; 1998 elections materialized this wide loyalty, making the     ruling party face for the first time since its establishment a real popular     power while many other movements were marginalized; a movement like this     faced detentions among its leaders and members up to more than thirty     thousands in a comprehensive and destructive attack on them and on their     families and relatives; the country&rsquo;s history did not witness like this     before; every family was repressed\u00a0 because of an affiliation, to the     movement or a sympathy or kinship or friendship, especially that the     movement members are well-known in their districts, villages and among their     families and their colleagues as models of success and good manners. Can a     wise man imagine that a police regime that possess only the stick from the     legitimacy account, can obliterate the beautiful memories about them from     people&rsquo;s hearts and turn that picture upside-down in the eyes of their     families, neighbourhood and friends, so that they believe that these     faithful men who served them and they experienced and learnt religion from,     are terrorists; is it just because the authority which is famous for     deception and lying and continuous repression against every opposing power     and free voice, accused them of this? No. Peoples are faithful to those who     served them and sacrificed for their sake. The newly grown plant may lean     because of the stormy wind but it is not broken and it quickly restores its     nature the moment the storm ends. This is what has actually started through     a violent awakening that penetrates all classes. Its faces include takfir     and faithfulness.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         In parallel to this religious awakening, there is a political and social     awakening mentioned before, and many things are to come.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         What is worth noting is reminding with the special cultural environment tin     whose context the improvement surfaced; it was an environment that     westernization controlled to the extent of tempting the tyrant that end of     Islam is close, making him dare to commit what no ruler dared to do in the     Islamic history whatever the extent of his tyranny; he even offended its     beliefs and rituals in a way that happened only in the republics of former     Soviet Union; it was an environment in which there was a boycott between the     new generation and Islam; the country&rsquo;s interest was turned from the East     into the West; the Islamic movement emerged, like Mousa (Moses) who was     brought up in Pharaoh&rsquo;s Palace. However, this was the surface, but the     popular depth remained tied to the East. The blatant offences of the tyrant     against Islamic sanctuaries like his drinking alcohol in Ramadan daytime (while     people were fasting) and calling on people to imitate him, and his mocking     at paradise, hell and prophets&rsquo; miracles, were a stunning shock to people     waking them from the state of coma into which the leader had been pushing     them during the struggle against occupation; the birth of the Islamic     movement was expressing a restored awareness and a response to the call for     sticking to identity; it wasn&rsquo;t amazing that a few group of young men began     working- during the 1970s- to call for performing the basics and rituals of     religion and in less than a decade life was restored to mosques after     abandoning them for a long period of time and the Islamic Da&rsquo;wa extended to     schools, faculties and culture clubs and all modernist institutions that     were founded on the bases of secularization and boycotting Islam and its     civilization with doctrines the secularization wandering in them; small     mosques were established; lessons, the Islamic book, the veil, the Islamic     art like the religious songs spread. Also, the movement became active in the     unions field and supported the union institution in its conflict against the     greedy Capitalism.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         In the political field, two months after the authorities declared allowing     political multiplicity, it declared establishing \u00ab\u00a0the Islamic Trend Movement     \u00a0\u00bb which turned- to be in accordance with the parties law- to the Nahda     Movement. It declared, in its constitutive statement, a political program     that fully adopts the democratic method. Including a pluralism that does not     exclude any trend and it renounced violence, as a way for solving     ideological and political disputes; and it approved citizenship as a basis     for equally distributing rights including the participation of women and     secular powers. This shocked at that time many Islamists. Such a declaration     didn&rsquo;t remains as an election slogan only but the movement worked for diving     it an ideological basis and to discover an original democratic culture in     the land and legacy of Islam; we think that \u00a0\u00bb the Nahda\u00a0\u00bb was a forerunner in     doing this and that its contribution to linking it to Islamic origins is     considerable; its effect exceeded the narrow Tunisian framework to reach the     general Islamic arena. However, what the Nahda did in 6-6-1981 and took the     initiative in it and was denounced in most Islamic circles is nowadays a     main part of the culture of the main course of the Islamic movement.     Believing in it is on the rise, due to the horizons and opportunities that     it opens, and the outlets of evil and sedition that it closes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Therefore, despite the tedious efforts that the authorities exerted to     entice movement to violence as a reaction on its tyranny, the movement     managed- thanks to God- to control its young men and nothing but a very few     and limited incidents were attributed to some of its members, after     arresting leaders and instigating beastly police elements against its youth.     Although the leadership denounced it, but it was taken as a basis for     legitimating the plan of eradicating the main rival of an overused ruling     party, under pretext of fighting terrorism and extremism and defending gains     of modernism. With dealing a blow to the main rival, it destroyed politics     as a whole- for a while.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Because the Nahda refused to be triggered to violence in response to the     eradication plan targeting it, Tunisia avoided falling in the violence     holocaust caused by the isolation and plots of regimes and their enticing     the Islamic movement in more than one country, not because of the     wakefulness of the security services as they claim, while the greatest     international services couldn&rsquo;t prevent violence when a group wanted to     ignite it, specially if it is like the size of the spread of the Nahda; but     the countries was protected from more disasters thanks to God who guided the     movement to be abide by a method of prudence, patience and the endurance and     rejecting the enticement plan. But under blocking the Nahd&rsquo;s moderate     educational role and within the atmospheres of alienation, calls for     violence infiltrated into the country in the last years, and the security     services failed to prevent acts of violence from happening. Nowadays,     hundreds- if not thousands- of Tunisian young men are behind bars in Tunisia     charged of preparing acts of violence, while local and international human     rights organizations reported the rude, affected and inexperienced     fabrication of the accusations against the movement of committing violence     and coup attempts against authorities. This kept the door open in front of     returning to holding dialogues, meetings and cooperation between the Islamic     movement and other political parties- both in power and the opposition;     nevertheless, the authorities kept ignoring all calls of dialogue and     reconciliation that the movement launched, even considering holding a     meeting between the movement and the opposition as a red line that crossing     it may exposes its committer to the severest anger. Despite that, many joint     seminars and dialogues were held in this context between the Islamic     movement and a group of leftist, national and liberal parties, leading to     forming the first and widest political opposition gathering which was named     after its date \u00ab\u00a018 October\u00a0\u00bb. This meant that the authorities plan to isolate     and alienate the movement and to disperse the opposition to weaken it for     ever, has filed. We consider all opposition movements as our partners in     homeland and in our responsibility for it. While we respect different     viewpoints, but we confirm our conviction that change should be carried out     through an organized frontal work, or it shouldn&rsquo;t be carried out. We may     face another 7 November coup against the first, unless the opposition takes     bolder moves towards a serious opposition work that forces the existing     authority to respect people through responding to opposition demands or to     compel it to leave. In all cases, although the movement remained the     authorities&rsquo; permanent obsession despite their repeated declarations that     they have eradicated it to the extent that they denied the presence of any     political prisoners in their detention camps; however, no one in the country     can deny that nowadays the Nahda is not just a bright history which is full     of sacrifices for the sake of defending Islam and freedom, but it is a     reality on the ground in people&rsquo;s hearts and is in all sections and concerns     of the society; no wise man can imagine a democratic future for Tunisia     without giving it a considerable account.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Briefly, we can consider \u2013 as the most important achievement for the Nahda     in terms of identity- is that it managed- thanks to God- to open the way in     front of returning Islam to the midst of modernist institutions in Tunisia,     after the occupation sidelined it and \u00ab\u00a0independence \u00a0\u00bb came so as to destroy     it in terms of beliefs, rituals, Sharia and institutions and even habits and     traditions. Its defense for the identity wasn&rsquo;t a work that was apart from     the intellectual, social and political fields, but it has taken place in the     midst of this field, closing ranks between principles and values of Islam     and defending sciences, technologies and values of original modernism:     freedom, democracy, worker&rsquo;s rights and the participation of woman and     supporting the liberation causes particularly the Palestinian cause and all     over the world including the movement of the struggle against the apartheid     in South Africa. All that was based on Islamic values and principles. In     general, the Islamic movement in Tunisia is integral part of the general     Islamic movement in the region and its future can only be seen within this     context, specially the Islamic movement in Egypt, the heart of Arabism and     Islam.          <strong>13- What is your program and view regarding the future in Tunisia;     do you have a view on reform in Tunisia?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> Our program is the same program that     we declared when we entered the political field in 1981, and it is     summarized in one single word: freedom, which is the main key for solving     all problems of our country, and it is a great purpose of prophethood \u00a0\u00bb He     will enjoin on them that which is right and forbid them that which is wrong.     He will make lawful for them all good things and prohibit for them only the     foul; and he will relieve them of their burden and the fetters that they     used to wear. \u00a0\u00bb Al-Araf. We notice in the principles and mechanisms of     contemporary democracy, and human rights principles a sufficient translation     for the freedom demand if it is materialized; it is a sufficient translation     that can liberate our nation from the biggest obstruction that afflicted it     since the ominous coup against the consultation regime and turning it into a     tyrannical reign that takes its legitimacy from violence. The development of     technologies of communication and, controls and country-nation concepts have     increased; the authoritarianism of the authorities and the separation of the     elite culture from the public culture and linking the decision-making with     foreign considerations, all this increased this country&rsquo;s alienation and     repression, making liberating people&rsquo;s will and restoring their control over     their rulers and easing their pressure on people so that they could sigh in     relief and guaranteeing their key national, Islamic and human freedoms,     making these the most important and first priority on which the success of     every program or mission relies and depends. Our noblest demand is freedom     including human rights and democracy. Our bitter enemy is tyranny, whatever     its source is. Our allies are all freedom supporters in our country and all     over the world. Our means are rallying public powers led by one or more     national fronts to launch a civil struggle to impose a democratic change     that was delayed in our country because of contradictions and divisions     among the elites and because the major powers failed us. The situation of     the opposition in such a case is similar to the situation of the national     movements that were struggling for the independence; they weren&rsquo;t required     to table details of their future programs, because their program was- in a     nutshell- driving the occupation out. We are facing nowadays a worse     internal occupation that succeeded in deceiving people with the illusion of     independence and with its achievements and making seditions and specially     fuelling ideological conflicts between Islamists and secularists, bringing a     side closer today to attack the other and then turns round to oppress it in     the second round, alternately. What is required nowadays is to mobilize all     liberal powers whatever their ideological backgrounds to demand a liberation     from the internal occupation- or achieving what our fair colleague Al     Marzouqi called the second independence assuming that there was a suspected     first independence. But we shouldn&rsquo;t repeat past, being content with singing     anthems of freedom and independence, something that allowed the leaders to     turn \u00a0\u00bb the independence \u00a0\u00bb into a hollow drum. This time, the meeting should     be clear regarding a model for a future country- a country that abides by     the principles and mechanisms of contemporary democracy which we consider as     the most faithful contemporary translation to the Islamic Shura.          The Nahda\u00a0 Movement is nowadays in the amidst of the battle against tyranny     and mafia; we cooperate with serious opposition movements to impose a     serious democratic change through means of a civil struggle calling on all     laborers, students and parties to close ranks in order to make this     democratic change through backing and escalating pressures, specially in     street movements, strikes and sit-ins. Our brothers in the East shouldn&rsquo;t     commit the mistake of ignoring the Nahda in terms of its leaders in exile.     The Nahda moves inside the country through its leaders who are widespread     all over the country. The political, social and cultural life in the country     hasn&rsquo;t produced- unlike some Maghreb countries-\u00a0 several Islamic movements.     The Nahda is still the most prominent symbol of active Islam in Tunisia, to     the extent that it is remembered in public or in secret whenever Islam is     mentioned. It is still representing an obsession or a painful complex for     the authorities, as it bet on eradicating it and boasted before the world     that it achieved this sacred historical mission that rattles the beds all     the world&rsquo;s masters, deserving a reward; whenever the Nahda said- inside or     outside the country- that it is still alive and that its presence is     developed, the authorities got enraged; What shall we do more than what we     did when we called it repeatedly to a reconciliation but it insisted on its     stubbornness, which- I think-will destroy it.          From this mouthpiece, I greet all Tunisian freemen, topped by the brave men     who are behind bars for more than 15 years, sticking to and abiding by their     principles in Islamic steadfastness, patience and dignity. I also greet all     people supporting the freeman both inside and outside the country and I     greet the leaders of the serious opposition specially those affiliated to 18     October movement who backed the Nahda whatever their trends, including the     brave chief judge, Al Mokhtar Al Yahyawi who seized the opportunity of the     advent of Ramadan in the country and sent a call of solidarity with the     Tunisian prisoners who are jailed in tyranny prisons calling for     intensifying pressures for ending their imprisonment. I thank very much the     brave judge who gave a great precedent and a great example in his calling     for freedom flag and his fierce defense for the Islamic prisoners in the     tyranny prisons and I highly appreciate his call for escalating a campaign     of pressures for emptying prisons of conscience; I call with him for closing     ranks in the lines of struggles and escalating pressures through the     petitions and sit-ins and all forms of civil moves to release the prisoners     release, so that Tunisia becomes a dear free homeland for all its citizens.          <strong>14- What is the effect of the Muslim Brotherhood movement on the     Maghreb Islamic movements?<\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> the effect is a reality, though its     size and depth differs from one country to another. All were undoubtedly     affected by the Islamic ideology formulated by the Muslim Brotherhood     theorists in terms of Islam&rsquo;s comprehensiveness in issues of belief and     politics, issues of worldly affairs and the hereafter, issues of economy and     manners, international relations, to the extent that the contemporary active     Islamism is Muslim Brotherhood-styled. Most the active Islamists in the     Maghreb were taught according to the ideology of Al Banna, Qotb, Al Ghazali,     Al Qaradawi, Sayed Sabq, Abdul Qader Awda and Al Moudoudi; in the second     stage of maturity, their effect extended to the local Islamic heritage     represented in the reformist movement&rsquo;s achievements which were in turn     closely related with their likes in Egypt: the Movement of Al-Afghani, Abdou     and Rasheed Reda. Sheikh Ibn Ashour in Tunisia, Ibn Badis in Algeria and     Al-Fasi in Morocco are considered- like Al-Banna- affiliates to the Islamic     League movement. Every progress that the Muslim Brotherhood achieves in     Egypt definitely has generally speaking positive reflections on the Islamic     movements and on the image of Islam in the region and all over the world.     Concerning the cooperation between the Maghreb Islamic movements, it is very     limited and the chances of meeting are rare because every movement is     greatly preoccupied with its concerns; I ask Allah to support all of them.          <strong>15- How do you see the future of the Middle East region under the     full domination of the Israeli enemy and the US full support? will The     United States succeed in establishing the New Middle East as cited by the US     Secretary of State? How do you see the future of the Islamic movements in     the new US system?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> the US policy led by the coalition of     a gang of Neo-Conservatives and Likud members is in a state of confusion;     whenever it wants to get out of a trouble, it falls in another worse one. It     has considered Islam, its institutions, movements and its countries as an     enemy against which it gathered weapons and formed armies and coalitions and     it operates weapon factories and controls over energy sources to fully     guarantee a full control over the world; its strips this region of all the     powers of resistance and rejection; any thing confronting the Hebrew State     must be removed. The 9\/11 events were a golden opportunity for kicking off     this horrible plan; they rushed to Afghanistan and focused on Iraq and they     attacked it before achieving the first target. Before achieving the second     target in which they face a fierce resitence and their deaths are on the     rise, they encouraged their Israeli thuggers to attack in order to eradicate     Hezbollah in preparation for devouring the other rejectionist powers: Syria,     Iran and Hamas, and for their bad fortune and stupidity of Israeli thugger,     they shared the same bad luck. Their blood is shed in all these open battles.     Their strength of deterrence and intimidation against the world are wasted.     Also, the real intentions of their morals have been revealed, and their     targets one after the other were disclosed. They couldn&rsquo;t in the midst of     their pompousness with the strength and control of their machines, realize     the overwhelming uprising all over the Islamic nation and its new     generations&rsquo; understanding of the techniques of the age. They did not     realize that the man is the master of the machine, and that the more the     size of secularization increases along with missing the meaning of and     target from life except worldly pleasures among their US or Zionist citizens,     it is the product of the same civilization which is witnessing an increasing     disintegration amid its societies, the more the spiritual and cognitive     level increases among our people because: A: because of the meaning that the     Islamic awakening gave to the meaning of his life, making him ready for     sacrificing at any time, including sacrificing his life instead of leading a     life that they turned into a humiliation and hell-like; B- and due to the     university graduates including engineers and other academic qualifications,     managing to use the defensive and offensive means that they posses with the     highest level of efficiency. It has been on the rock of the generation of     the uprising and its improving human belief level and the technical     cognitive level, that the plans of the New and Greater Middle East were     destroyed. The shameful army was scandalously defeated by some hundreds of     Muslim young men whose souls were full of faith and they were fully     insisting on resistance, seeking martyrdom; their minds were full of     experience and knowledge and their bodies were trained; consequently, the     limited means of power in their hands turned into a great deterrence that     imposed on the savage enemy for the first time in the history of the     conflict a terrible balance of power that forced it into retreating, and     disappointing the US administration which was waiting to prey on the victim.     While they were hoping that the victory in Lebanon and liquidating the power     of the resistance may tempt them either to prey on another target: Syria or     Iran to compensate for the wounds they faced in Iraq wounds or at least     cover a US withdrawal from Iraq to escape a daily bloodshed that they suffer,     making their people starting to feel the pains with the rise of cost of the     invasion. However, I think that the Likud gang, that controls the US     decision makers, will make the US giant get more involved in an attack on     Iran, under the pretext of fighting a war against terrorism. Iran does not     definitely want such a war, but it has surely prepared for it; its seeking a     nuke weapon- if it is so- is just to achieve a deterrence and a balance of     fear that defend it against the Zionist US aggression, something that both     of them don&rsquo;t want it to possess, so that Muslims remain always in the reach     of hand and a source of blackmail.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         \u00a0The mentally that controls the ruling gang in the superpower is a very     dangerous \u00ab\u00a0mentality\u00a0\u00bb because it is full of myths and legends about the     apocalypse; it is a Talmudic Torah mentality, but there is nothing more     amazing than it to lead a great imperial power that no country in the world     can confront; its leadership is about to collapse; the big empires collapse     not because of outside factors but from fatal mistakes. Allah the     all-truthful said\u00a0\u00bb And when We would destroy a township We send commandment     to its folk who live at ease, and afterward they commit abomination therein,     and so the Word (of doom) hath effect for it, and we annihilate it with     complete annihilation. \u00a0\u00bb Al-Israa. It is so fortunate that Bush leads the     Western world and that Sharon and his pupils lead Israel. They will not only     push these countries to involvement in successive wars of attrition;     whenever they want to get out of one of them, they fell in another worse one,     till its dignity- its greatest asset- is wasted, making peoples who were     fearing its power, attack it, but it also leads the region&rsquo;s regimes who are     loyal to it to a similar fate, because this blind loyalty alienates and     separates them from their peoples and they abandon their tasks of defending     them, like what happened to the Egyptian regime and the entire Arab regime     whose submission to the US will reached the limit of refusing to meet to     issue a statement of condemnation like what it was doing in the past, while     the peoples are burning; This is none of its affair, but it brings closer     the end of these regimes and accelerates the movement to change and topple     these horrible regimes, reminding us of the statelets on the rim of the     peninsula; when Islam emerged, they were affiliated to the major powers and     they collapsed with their collapse. This makes the question directed to- not     the fate of the Middle East- but about the fate of the US empire and its     Israeli thugger in the Middle East and the regimes loyal to them; all these     are in a state of confusion an anarchy, giving more opportunities for the     rejectionist and resistance powers, and to the street movement led by     national, regional and international coalitions: movements and countries,     that support the resistance as being the future for overthrowing overused     regimes enjoying an international support; nowadays, we see the feet of the     giant soaked in mud and shame, who will help those affiliates.          <strong>16- Islamic presence in the West:     <\/strong> <strong>A- What are the Muslim priorities in the West?<\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> the Islamic presence in the West is     mostly new resulting from migrations and a few of them are out of converting     to Islam in addition to the Balkan and Eastern Europe Muslims who are     basically European. The total number may be more than forty millions     including the Russian Union Muslims. The priority of these people is the     priority of every Muslim group whose number decreased or it wants to keep     its religion, specially that it is a minority which is liable to be     dissolved amid a more superior majority dominated by a secular irreligious     culture that poses a serious threat to the new generations. The necessities     of keeping religion include establishing its institutions like mosques,     centers, schools and gatherings which are an environment where belief and     the spirit of the group flourish.          Parallel to this mission, there is a Da&rsquo;wa (preaching) for Islam through     openness to society and showing the image of Islam in the attitude     represented in Islam as clear behavioral models, respecting laws and     fulfilling promises and sincerity in talking and good behaviour and a good     taste and a permanent readiness for helping others and having the initiative     to greet others, a good neighbourhood and an effective participation in the     cultural, social and political lives, specially from the new generations .<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         The more the believers succeed in making the positive merging into their     society, a merging that encourages the pillars of their Islamic personality     without isolating them from their surroundings, and they become effective,     the more the Muslim society in the West manages to achieve the ordains of     its religion including offering aid to its brothers- the believers all over     the world as being a part of the Islamic nation, given that this takes as     within laws which- thanks to God- give the Muslim as a citizen many rights     which if used for supporting his brothers, there will so much good in the     media, material aid or political levels whether through his participation in     parties, in election campaigns or through his participation in marches and     sit-ins as during the crises of Bosnia, Palestine, Iraq or Lebanon.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         There is not necessarily a conflict between the one&rsquo;s loyalty to his     religion and his loyalty to his homeland. The new generations of the sons of     emigrants do not know a homeland for them except these homelands where they     were born, because Islam is not related to a specific people or a specific;     wherever you can perform freely your religion rituals, you can live; the     migration isn&rsquo;t a must except if he faces a war in terms of his religion and     force into converting to another religion or he is bared from performing the     ordains of his religion. In the democratic West, the democratic revolutions     agreed on sidelining the churches domination to guarantee for people freedom     to choose their beliefs, a right that Islam provided to all those living on     its land since the Madinah state till nowadays, while the Western countries     could not provide the freedom of belief except after struggling for hundreds     of years. There is no contradiction in terms of democratic freedoms between     being a Muslim and having any nationality that ensure the private and public     freedoms. There is no difference between being a Muslim from Egypt, Syria     and Pakistan and being a Muslim from Britain, America and Swede, due to the     universality of the message of Islam. Undoubtedly, the Arabs are nowadays a     small group among Muslims and most Muslims don&rsquo;t speak Arabic, to the extent     that English may be more capable on achieving communication nowadays among     the Islamic elites. This is to the extent that the ones who can&rsquo;t speak     English feel outcast in many Islamic conferences that gather several Islamic     nationalities.\u00a0\u00a0           <strong>B- Do you see that the idea of ( the West comprises war countries)     is still haunting many of those living in those countries?     <\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> No, all Muslims public don&rsquo;t even     think of these false issues, let alone speaking about them; even the Muslim     elites don&rsquo;t discuss such extremist views. These are voices which are not     reflecting the reality; the problems of these voices are immersed in the     problems of pas ages,; such issues were raised due to the law of force that     was dominating the relations between countries; those countries which wen&rsquo;t     attacking others are like what Zohair Ibn Abi Salma- a pre-Islamic poet-     said describing the law of that time\u00a0\u00bb The one who doesn&rsquo;t defend his     territories with his weapon, will be destroyed and the one who doesn&rsquo;t wrong     abuse people, will be abused.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         It is true that force is still ruling the world, but there is beside it a     law that grew and is controlling using it; the strong country may ignore     abiding by this law, but they will look at it as a rouge state; It\u00a0 wasn&rsquo;t     like this in the past. The relations between countries are organized by     mutual treaties and recognitions, making safety available for people     wherever they go as long as they abide by laws, contrary to the past when     the safety of the Muslim believer was confined to Islamic countries; if he     went out of them, he loses that safety because he is in an abode of war.     Therefore, the prophet peace be upon him banned believers from carrying the     Quran outside the abode of Islam because religious freedoms were not     guaranteed except in the abode of Islam. As a matter of fact, one of the     most important definitions of the abode of Islam is that it is the country     where the Muslim is safe and can exercise his religion rituals publicly and     safely, making the abode of Islam practically the abode of justice and     freedom. Muslims in the West are not in a state of war with the countries     where they stay but they are in safety that may surpass the safety that     their brothers enjoy in the traditional Islamic countries because of the     spread of injustice.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">         Even the Western countries which are in a state of war with Muslims, this     doesn&rsquo;t mean that the issue of war moves to the Muslim minority, considering     itself in a state of war with their country severing and breaking all     conventions, committing a kind of treachery not found in our religion.     However, this does not prevent the Muslim minority from objecting to their     country&rsquo;s foreign or domestic policies, but through the legal means.          <strong>C- Evaluate the Islamic work in the West during the previous period?<\/strong> <strong>Rashed Al-Ghannoushi:<\/strong> It realized important achievements on     the level of awakening the Islamic identity among millions of emigrating     Muslims who have a limited culture and science, protecting them from the     danger of dissolving.\u00a0 That took place through establishing mosques, Islamic     centers, schools and stores and Muslim councils which are accountable in     front of the country. The Islamic presence in the West still has serious     tasks, specially on the level of developing an Islamist discourse which is     suitable for the Western environment instead of continuing to import the     problems of the Islamic world. One of the worst obstacles facing this newly     grown Islamic Da&rsquo;wa is the emergence of tense atmospheres around it     represented in the rise of the far right movement on the one hand and the     hard-line doctrines among some Muslim youth on the other hand, adding fuel     to fire and escalating the campaign against Islam, its preachers and its     institutions; this obliges the Muslim society in the West to close ranks in     order to resist strictness and the negative images about Islam, and to curb     its disagreements and learns from their environments the art of dialogue,     accepting the other and searching for common points which are many as a     basis for the Islamic unity between the various ideological schools and the     juristic doctrines, Sunni, Shiite, Salafi and Sufi\u2026etc. The Islamic presence     in the West faces challenges, the most important among which is the     international campaign against Islam led by the Zionist Conservative gang     for distorting its image, isolating it and linking it with every thing     hateful and posing dangers to urbanization; these challenges include the     challenge of the new generation nd whether it will be an extension of the     Islamic Nation through its positive merging in all cultural, social and     political fields. However, there are with\u00a0 these challenges fronts that are     opened through the appearance of an educated new generation which has\u00a0     modernist education with a deep-rooted Islamic belief. We rely- after Allah-     on the new generation to receive the leadership of Islamic centers and     mosques \u2026etc. The Islamic presence in the West is considered one of most     important two achievements for Islam in the 20th century: after dismiss     occupations armies from the abode of Islam, though it has unfortunately     become a habit nowadays. As for the second achievement, it is the spread of     Islam in the world, making an important bridge of contacts, exchange and     acculturation between the East and the West that may put a final end to     aggression. This includes the severe worry among the Muslim young men in the     West and the crisis of conscience and their increasing anger at the British     policy, driving sections of them to extremism. Blair is still refusing to     admit that the reason for this tendency to extremism among sections of     British Muslim youth is not attributed to what they considered as a presence     of something wrong in Islam. But the reason is that the British policy maker     hasn&rsquo;t realized yet the new facts of the society that he is ruling,     including that Islam is no longer a foreign issue but it is an integral part     of the demographic composition that should be taken into consideration in     every foreign or domestic policy related to Islam that the government wanted     to enact, like what they do towards any policy related to Israel, as they do     not overlook the presence of an effective Jewish minority that may be     affected by that policy. This new fact will impose itself on all future     Western policies, something new still not understood by the policy makers.     However, Muslims should be patient, endure and invest in upbringing their     sons in a civil education that contains the modernism gains within framework     of Islamic values, the Islam of mercy and justice, apart from the     temptations of extremism and being drawn to the holocaust of violence, due     to the fact that they are good believers and citizens who are faithful to     their homelands in which they are living. That is a part of the divine     promise that the world will not end before the light, mercy and justice of     religion prevails all over the world, through the contacts among peoples and     a revolution in the means of communication. It is a new conquest whose     instruments are the good word, the strong argument and showing the mercy and     justice of Islam. \u00ab\u00a0We have sent you as a mercy for all Mankind.\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>  \u00a0<\/div>\n<div> <strong><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">(Source: Ikhwanweb &#8211;   Thursday, November 02, 2006)<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr dir=\"ltr\"\/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\" dir=\"ltr\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/tunisnews.net\/ar\/\"><span>Home<\/span><span lang=\"FR-CH\"> &#8211; Accueil <\/span><span>&#8211; <\/span><span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/body><\/html><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home &#8211; Accueil &#8211; \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629 TUNISNEWS 7\u00a0\u00e8me\u00a0ann\u00e9e, N\u00b0\u00a02356 du 03.11.2006 \u00a0archives : www.tunisnews.net AISPP: Le cycle de l&rsquo;injustice &#8211; Le Docteur 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