December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a recent graduate, wounded by live-evil, victims of indifference and oppression, immolated by fire. This was not the first case. But this time, the story was at the rendezvous. She answered the call of despair and left his entire people Bastille to demolish the government of betrayal.
January 14, 2011: End of political monstrosity. The tyrant, always driven by this mentality of treason, fled. For this reason, the Tunisian people joined the procession of the great modern nations who for centuries have recalled all forces of oppression, violence and ignorance, if present in our humanity, the obvious clarity of the "spirit of justice" and the "logic of indignation."
"The Path to Dignity," was revealed by women and men victims of exclusion, torture, propaganda defaming police, marginalized by political parties, but always standing by independent persons resisting tyranny. We followed them, without really believing that despotism would leave soon and while praying providence to give us enough life to see her fall. And then ... people, their especially young people, these young people trained in global culture of free communication of ideas, and just hit hard, forcing the miserable tyrant to flee. Not content with having ravaged the country for over 23 years, in terms of its human resources, having squandered his money, of having oppressed and tortured his opponents, he left behind his private police to make the country a ruins in order to justify a possible return. Anarchy, for any society, is indeed worse than tyranny. The Tunisian people are attaching them to the national army, put an end to the destruction of the country. Cunning of history: political evil absolute, consuming society, was itself devastated.
It is pretentious, in the heart of the event, want to theorise it or predict its effects. One point seems certain, however. The Tunisian people has revealed in recent events, that the democratic idea was neither eastern nor western or north or south, it went beyond the territories and borders, and was constitutive of our humanity . Man was created to be a Democrat. He does not tolerate torture or discrimination, or the smothering of his thinking being.
is the first time in the Arab world, to the surprise of all, the people rise, not only for daily bread, but for dignity, equal rights and duties, liberty, alternation in power, political pluralism, the fairness of elections, probity and accountability of rulers. We have heard, we have seen bear slogans, principles and values of democracy and the rule of law. We understand by this that the legend of democracy imported from the West is dead. It was a falsehood peddled by all the heads in pain dictatorship or by their Western friends that we suggested in their remarks that democracy is the preserve's beautiful and noble nations of the universe and that's dictatorship for us with the bread was better. We had the right, ultimately, neither bread nor freedom. The people have rejected their lessons and the democratic idea has received the honor of the coronation office by the Tunisian people.
Before January 2011, the democratic era had not yet really begun in the Arab world. This has certainly lived experiences of representative democracy. He practiced votes doubtful for the appointment of Heads of State meetings, it adopted constitutional reforms tailored. This does not correspond to a democratic demand deep from the depths of the soul of the people. Two reasons for this. The first stems from the discrepancy between the official and constitutional status of the people and their real-life conditions. We must return to this point in the policy pursued by some leaders seeking legitimacy for themselves and generalization of social progress for their people. Closely accompanied the development of the rural exodus and life miserable and that peripheral generates, the sovereignty of the masses will be meaningless. Nasser, Bourguiba, Ben Bella, Boumediene, called the people to exercise sovereignty. But it was ultimately struck a wall of exclusion and insecurity, that is, in fact, a denial of citizenship. The second reason comes from the response of a section of public opinion, won by militant Islam, the establishment of parliamentary democracy, considered as a mode of government imported from the West by the national elite itself westernized.
In this climate, the fundamentalist discourse could be an attractive alternative to the coherence of the personality and calming anxieties. The speech drew its strength from the deep springs of cultural heritage, proposed a reconciliation between the voice of the ancestors and the generations, provided a shelter for dislocated identity. The potential of Islamic identity explains the establishment and strengthening of Islam and the failure of the modernizing state. The Tunisian Revolution, revolution in which the Islamist slogans were totally absent, is an inaugural event capital because it challenges Because all these data. Now, democracy is internalized by all the people and political Islam, of all persuasions will have to deal with the mass of the democratic idea. It must be guided by "the spirit of Islam" drawn against the letter.
Self-immolation by burning social protest is an act inherently and fundamentally anti-Muslim at all levels of the standard theological, moral and legal. One can not imagine a worse violation of Sharia. Yet these sacrifices were supported by the people who has mixed his voice to the victims and their massive following funerals. All this was during a radical rethinking of the entire system of government, then his fall. We have not heard anyone say the name of Sharia law: "These are not Muslims, they will not be buried with Muslims." Sharia law has remained silent, abandoned in a society marked, it was believed, by "re-Islamization" of morals. The real man in real life, "tinker" its standards every day, as he can, without worrying about legal and illegal theological and legislative branches. The truth is never one-sided. We live everywhere and always with a heart diffracting and spirit. The operation of standards is not a curriculum but a telescoping perpetual.
However, it is a certainty: in Tunisia, but eventually throughout the Arab world, nothing will ever be before January 2011. Even if, God forbid, the revolution fails, a new order of thought and political action has been inaugurated. January 2011 is the deep divide in our current history.
It remains to win the final battle: to prevent the old demons of our civic spirit, always on the lookout, to be reborn. From the absence the intoxication of freedom, the political wilderness in excess of outbidding partisan struggles of clans, the words incendiary, fundamentalism and demagoguery, the irresponsible remarks and hateful of poor or neglected, the acquis January remain under the threat of Mars.
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