#sectarisme

@joshua_landis sur Twitter: Interesting critique of al-Azhar teachings. Wonder how much is true? “#Al_Azhar and #ISIS: Cause and Effect” ▻http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/4257-al-azhar-and-isis-cause-and-effect
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/670595514895872000

As Conflicts Flare Up, Leaders Fan Sectarian Flames in Middle East
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/world/middleeast/as-conflicts-flare-up-leaders-fan-sectarian-flames-in-middle-east.html

In an online statement signed by 55 clerics, [Saudi clerics] warned that if the “holy warriors” were defeated in Syria, Sunni nations would also fall “one after the other.”

Madawi al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the Middle East Center of the London School of Economics, said the strong sectarian tone of the statement represented the sort of pronouncements that have made the region’s hostilities harder and harder to arrest.

“The language of sectarianism involves elimination and purification, and these are very dangerous words to use in any conflict,” Dr. Rasheed said. “It makes it more difficult to see a space for dialogue and political solutions or compromises. Religious conflicts are more difficult to resolve than political ones.”

#sectarisme #délétère #Arabie_Saoudite

#ISRAËL
Un haut lieu du christianisme visé par un probable geste haineux
▻http://www.ledevoir.com/international/actualites-internationales/443115/israel-un-haut-lieu-du-christianisme-vise-par-un-probable-geste-haineux

La suspicion d’un acte d’intolérance a été immédiate. Les auteurs ont laissé derrière eux, en grand et en rouge sur l’un des murs du complexe, un graffiti en hébreu biblique appelant à éliminer d’Israël les idoles païennes.

Le graffiti est tiré d’une prière juive prononcée trois fois par jour.

Depuis des années, des activistes d’extrême droite ou des colons se livrent en Israël et dans les Territoires palestiniens, sous le label « le prix à payer », à des agressions et des actes de #vandalisme contre des #Palestiniens, des Arabes israéliens, des lieux de culte musulmans et chrétiens, ou même l’armée israélienne.

L’émoi causé par l’incendie est d’autant plus vif que le lieu est insigne. Le sanctuaire attire chaque jour environ 5000 visiteurs, selon les autorités catholiques. Il est bâti sur une église et une basilique des 4e et Ve siècles elles-mêmes édifiées là où le Christ aurait multiplié cinq pains et deux poissons pour nourrir des milliers de fidèles.

Il abrite des mosaïques des 4e et Ve siècles qui sont parmi les plus anciennes de l’art figuratif chrétien dans la région, et dont l’une évoque le miracle de la multiplication.

Le site de #Tabgha avait déjà été visé en avril 2014, peu avant la visite du pape en Terre sainte. Selon des responsables catholiques, de très jeunes juifs avaient endommagé des croix et s’en étaient pris à des religieux.

#price_tag #israel #sectarisme

Bombardement de la tombe de Hussein al-Houthi par la « coalition ».
▻http://francais.rt.com/international/2237-yemen-frappes-arabie

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Les forces aériennes de la coalition ont pris pour cible des postes de commandement houthis, une usine de mines et un centre de télécommunications. A Saada, les bombardements ont touché la tombe d’Hussein al Houthi, le fondateur du mouvement chiite éponyme. D’autres provinces ont été touchées, près de la frontière saoudienne et à Aden.

Lebanon’s political scions step up | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Feb-07/286715-lebanons-political-scions-step-up.ashx

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Au Liban les fils s’apprêtent à ("démocratiquement") remplacer les pères

According to Imad Salamey, an associate professor of political science at the Lebanese American University, the whole process was indicative of the continuation of political feudalism in Lebanon, a tradition that has been entrenched for hundreds of years.

He attributed this phenomenon to “the general sense of insecurity in the country and sectarian or communal fear from others.”

“This happens typically when a community senses external threat from other communities. This becomes an option that maintains cohesion among the rank of the community and provides a way to avoid struggle over leadership ... it is the easy way out,” Salamey said.

He noted that the sectarian struggle in Lebanon often emerged as an existential struggle.

“The community feels that it’s going to be wiped out.”

Salamey said that had Lebanon not been a country “where there is communal struggle for power of sectarian orientation,” then political parties could easily modernize and afford leadership struggle.

#féodalisme et son #papa le #sectarisme #Liban

The Futility of #Fatwas Against Isis | Nesrine Malik
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nesrine-malik/isis-islam-fatwas_b_6076310.html

This does indicate that there is a mainstream rejection of ISIS, and this consensus is new and significant. And yet it is #futile. The ideological response to ISIS must be cast from outside the realm of religious authority altogether . You see, Islam in particular, and holy text religions in general, are open to interpretation and selectivity. By responding to ISIS from within its own paradigm, one only validates its basic premise - that there is some authority to be derived from religion, and that there is one valid interpretation that trumps all others. There isn’t. ISIS has used religion as vehicle for a political project, rather than used politics to advance a religious vision.

There is still no honest reckoning about this, and the fact that many Muslims are indeed selective with literal application of the religious text. To admit this would be to concede to the fact that Islam should be a personal matter, not imposed by the state or any political body in any form, and open the doors to secularism.

This is the knot at the heart of the question of Islamic ’reform’. Where is the so-called ’moderate Muslim’, the promised ISIS vanquisher? The Muslims that Ben Affleck pointed out just want to go to work and eat some sandwiches, and not kill any infidels? In many parts of the Muslim world, they are stuck, certainly not endorsing extremism, but living in societies where notional endorsements are implicitly made every day. A simple survey of alcohol consumption in private across the Arab world is a basic but effective indicator of the schism between private irreligious practice under cover of darkness vs pious public dissimulation during the day.

The Arab Muslim state, from Egypt to the UAE, is the most complicit in this hypocrisy, promoting non-negotiable religious values and enshrining them in the constitution, education and public order laws , in a sort of ’curated’ Islam (dare I say, a ’real Islam’), that dovetails as closely as possible with the government’s political needs.

Most Arab states share Isis’s ideology. They’re trying to have it both ways | Brian Whitaker | Comment is free | theguardian.com
►http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/28/arab-states-share-isis-ideology-islam

As far as many of the Arab public are concerned, discriminating against members of the “wrong” faith, or those who hold unorthodox views, is not only acceptable, but the right thing to do. For Arab governments, enforcing religious rules and allying themselves with God helps to make up for their lack of electoral legitimacy.

#hypocrisie #sectarisme #Arabes

Pour Al-Kanz, l’islam est strictement sunnite et les chiites ne sont pas musulmans : Achoura : attention, ceci n’est pas l’islam
►http://www.al-kanz.org/2014/10/23/achoura

Si pour les musulmans (ahl as-sunna wa jama’a) achoura est marquée par le jeûne, pour les chiites c’est un jour de deuil en mémoire de l’imam Hussayn (qu’Allah soit satisfait de lui), le petit-fils du Prophète (paix et bénédiction sur lui).

[…]

Il est important que les musulmans se désavouent de ce genre de pratiques, voire expliquent aux non-musulmans qu’il ne s’agit pas d’une pratique qui relève de l’islam, mais bien d’une tradition chiite. Demain, les journaux télévisés ne vont pas manquer – involontairement – de faire l’amalgame.

Signalé par @baroug dans une réponse de forum :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/305744#message305817
J’en fais un message séparé, parce que c’est important – je pense qu’on a résolument besoin d’une documentation du thème « Comment les musulmans français sont devenus sunnites ».

ISIS and the war of ideas
▻http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2014/october/isis-and-the-war-of-ideas.htm#sthash.UYnfvJqM.STZEhSpn.dpbs

Certes le #sectarisme est la plaie du monde arabe comme le dit Brian Whitaker, mais il n’est pas du tout sérieux de prendre à témoin un officiel occidental sans prise en compte de l’histoire récente (), et de préconiser une « bataille des idées » sans aborder le versant social et économique ni la pourriture des dirigeants arabes (également pris à témoin !) et leur soutien par les mêmes officiels occidentaux.

() Quand l’#USAID finançait des livres scolaires afghans préconisant de zigouiller les athées au nom du Djihâd.

En paywall sur le WaPo :
From U.S., the ABC’s of Jihad ; Violent Soviet-Era Textbooks Complicate Afghan Education Efforts
By Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, March 23, 2002 ; Page A01
▻http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/409274513.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar%2023,%202

Archivé ici :
▻http://supportdanielboyd.wordpress.com/usa-printed-textbooks-support-jihad-in-afghanistan-and-

In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.

The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fundamentalist code.

As Afghan schools reopen today, the United States is back in the business of providing schoolbooks. But now it is wrestling with the unintended consequences of its successful strategy of stirring Islamic fervor to fight communism. What seemed like a good idea in the context of the Cold War is being criticized by humanitarian workers as a crude tool that steeped a generation in violence.

Last month, a U.S. foreign aid official said, workers launched a “scrubbing” operation in neighboring Pakistan to purge from the books all references to rifles and killing. Many of the 4 million texts being trucked into Afghanistan, and millions more on the way, still feature Koranic verses and teach Muslim tenets.

The White House defends the religious content, saying that Islamic principles permeate Afghan culture and that the books “are fully in compliance with U.S. law and policy.” Legal experts, however, question whether the books violate a constitutional ban on using tax dollars to promote religion.

Organizations accepting funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development must certify that tax dollars will not be used to advance religion. The certification states that AID “will finance only programs that have a secular purpose. . . . AID-financed activities cannot result in religious indoctrination of the ultimate beneficiaries.”

The issue of textbook content reflects growing concern among U.S. policymakers about school teachings in some Muslim countries in which Islamic militancy and anti-Americanism are on the rise. A number of government agencies are discussing what can be done to counter these trends.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush have repeatedly spotlighted the Afghan textbooks in recent weeks. Last Saturday, Bush announced during his weekly radio address that the 10 million U.S.-supplied books being trucked to Afghan schools would teach “respect for human dignity, instead of indoctrinating students with fanaticism and bigotry.”

The first lady stood alongside Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai on Jan. 29 to announce that AID would give the University of Nebraska at Omaha $6.5 million to provide textbooks and teacher training kits.

AID officials said in interviews that they left the Islamic materials intact because they feared Afghan educators would reject books lacking a strong dose of Muslim thought. The agency removed its logo and any mention of the U.S. government from the religious texts, AID spokeswoman Kathryn Stratos said.

“It’s not AID’s policy to support religious instruction,” Stratos said. “But we went ahead with this project because the primary purpose . . . is to educate children, which is predominantly a secular activity.”

Some legal experts disagreed. A 1991 federal appeals court ruling against AID’s former director established that taxpayers’ funds may not pay for religious instruction overseas, said Herman Schwartz, a constitutional law expert at American University, who litigated the case for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Ayesha Khan, legal director of the nonprofit Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the White House has “not a legal leg to stand on” in distributing the books.

“Taxpayer dollars cannot be used to supply materials that are religious,” she said.

Published in the dominant Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtu, the textbooks were developed in the early 1980s under an AID grant to the University of Nebraska-Omaha and its Center for Afghanistan Studies. The agency spent $51 million on the university’s education programs in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994.

During that time of Soviet occupation, regional military leaders in Afghanistan helped the U.S. smuggle books into the country. They demanded that the primers contain anti-Soviet passages. Children were taught to count with illustrations showing tanks, missiles and land mines, agency officials said. They acknowledged that at the time it also suited U.S. interests to stoke hatred of foreign invaders.

“I think we were perfectly happy to see these books trashing the Soviet Union,” said Chris Brown, head of book revision for AID’s Central Asia Task Force.

AID dropped funding of Afghan programs in 1994. But the textbooks continued to circulate in various versions, even after the Taliban seized power in 1996.

Officials said private humanitarian groups paid for continued reprintings during the Taliban years. Today, the books remain widely available in schools and shops, to the chagrin of international aid workers.

“The pictures [in] the texts are horrendous to school students, but the texts are even much worse,” said Ahmad Fahim Hakim, an Afghan educator who is a program coordinator for Cooperation for Peace and Unity, a Pakistan-based nonprofit.

An aid worker in the region reviewed an unrevised 100-page book and counted 43 pages containing violent images or passages.

The military content was included to “stimulate resistance against invasion,” explained Yaquib Roshan of Nebraska’s Afghanistan center. “Even in January, the books were absolutely the same . . . pictures of bullets and Kalashnikovs and you name it.”

During the Taliban era, censors purged human images from the books. One page from the texts of that period shows a resistance fighter with a bandolier and a Kalashnikov slung from his shoulder. The soldier’s head is missing.

Above the soldier is a verse from the Koran. Below is a Pashtu tribute to the mujaheddin, who are described as obedient to Allah. Such men will sacrifice their wealth and life itself to impose Islamic law on the government, the text says.

“We were quite shocked,” said Doug Pritchard, who reviewed the primers in December while visiting Pakistan on behalf of a Canada-based Christian nonprofit group. “The constant image of Afghans being natural warriors is wrong. Warriors are created. If you want a different kind of society, you have to create it.”

After the United States launched a military campaign last year, the United Nations’ education agency, UNICEF, began preparing to reopen Afghanistan’s schools, using new books developed with 70 Afghan educators and 24 private aid groups. In early January, UNICEF began printing new texts for many subjects but arranged to supply copies of the old, unrevised U.S. books for other subjects, including Islamic instruction.

Within days, the Afghan interim government announced that it would use the old AID-produced texts for its core school curriculum. UNICEF’s new texts could be used only as supplements.

Earlier this year, the United States tapped into its $296 million aid package for rebuilding Afghanistan to reprint the old books, but decided to purge the violent references.

About 18 of the 200 titles the United States is republishing are primarily Islamic instructional books, which agency officials refer to as “civics” courses. Some books teach how to live according to the Koran, Brown said, and “how to be a good Muslim.”

UNICEF is left with 500,000 copies of the old “militarized” books, a $200,000 investment that it has decided to destroy, according to U.N. officials.

On Feb. 4, Brown arrived in Peshawar, the Pakistani border town in which the textbooks were to be printed, to oversee hasty revisions to the printing plates. Ten Afghan educators labored night and day, scrambling to replace rough drawings of weapons with sketches of pomegranates and oranges, Brown said.

“We turned it from a wartime curriculum to a peacetime curriculum,” he said

US Airstrikes Won’t Eradicate #ISIS
▻http://www.lobelog.com/isis-and-terrorism-a-stand-back-look

(...)

As long as Arab governments are repressive, illegitimate, sectarian, and incompetent, they will be unable to halt the ISIS offensive. In fact, many of these regimes have themselves to blame for the appeal of ISIS. They have cynically exploited religious sectarianism to stay in power.

If it is true that a young man is not radicalized and does not become a terrorist overnight and if it is true that a terrorist group does not develop in a vacuum, then it’s time to stand back and take a strategic look at the factors that drive ISIS and similar Sunni terrorist groups in the Arab world.

1. Intolerant Doctrine. Some Arab Sunni regimes, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, continue to preach an intolerant religious Sunni ideology that denigrates not only other faiths but also Shia Islam. Christian religious places and educational institutions cannot operate freely in places like Saudi Arabia.

Much of the anger that has characterized the Islamization of Muslim societies in recent years has been directed against these institutions. This type of harassment is felt across the region, from Palestine to Saudi Arabia. What makes this reality especially sad is the fact that Christian institutions have been at the forefront of Arab educational renaissance since the 19th century.

The Sunni regimes’ benign neglect of the rapidly spreading Sunni violent ideology and its divisive sectarian policies has allowed ISIS to spread. This does not augur well for its survival. The Saudi brand of intolerant, narrow-minded Wahhabi-Salafi Sunni Islam is not much different from al-Baghdadi’s modern day caliphate.

The Saudis oppose ISIS because of its perceived threat to the regime, but they cannot disavow their theological worldview, which rejects Shia Islam, Christianity, and Judaism and denies women their rightful place as equal citizens. The rapidly spreading ISIS doctrine is making it a bit late for the Saudis and other Sunni regimes to act. Nor will the West be able to bail them out.

2. Arab Autocracy. Sunni Arab dictators have refused their peoples freedoms of speech, organization, political activism, innovation, and creativity. The three “deficits” of freedom, education, and women’s rights that Arab intellectuals identified in the Arab Human Development Report in 2002 are yet to be meaningfully addressed.

Politics is controlled by the powerful with no room for reason or compromise among the different stakeholders and centers of power in society. Those on top commit all kinds of dastardly deeds to stay in power, and those at the bottom are doomed to remain stuck in the proverbial “bottom one billion.” Regimes do not allow the meaningful separation of powers, checks and balances, and independent judiciaries to properly function. Control, fear, and co-optation remain the preferred tools of Arab dictators.

3. Hypocrisy of “Values.”
President Obama has often invoked American values of liberty, human rights, equality, justice, and fairness as the underpinnings of American democracy and of “what makes us who we are.” Yet when Arab publics see Washington steadfastly supporting Arab dictators, who are the antithesis of American “values,” the United States comes across as hypocritical and untrustworthy.

The debates within Islam over whether the faith should return to its 7th century roots, as ISIS’s ruthlessness has shown, or leap into the 21st century modern world, as Turkey has demonstrated, should primarily concern Muslims. They and they alone are the ones to resolve this quandary. ISIS is a violent symptom of this tug of war between intolerant traditionalists and forward-looking reformists. The West should stay out of the debate.

Western security and law enforcement agencies should focus on their own citizens and track their would-be jihadists, but Western military aircraft should stay out of the skies of the Levant.

#hypocrisie #valeurs #Etats-Unis #régimes_arabes #irresponsables #dictateurs #liberticides #prévaricateurs #voleurs #illégitimes #sectaires #sectarisme #instrumentalisation_du_religieux

The Future of ISIS and the Sectarian Response: ISIS has Picked a Fight it Cannot Win
Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 15th, 2014
▻http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/future-isis-sectarian-response-isis-picked-fight-win

#Irak #sectarisme #sunnites #chiites

La rue #Moutanabi, dernier refuge de l’intelligentsia bagdadie
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2014/05/02/la-rue-moutanabi-dernier-refuge-de-l-intelligentsia-bagdadie_4410606_3218.ht

A l’heure où d’autres convergent vers la mosquée pour la grande prière hebdomadaire, ces irréductibles viennent causer #culture et #politique dans une ambiance festive, à l’écart du #sectarisme ethnico-religieux ambiant. « C’est ma bouteille d’oxygène », explique Taha Rachid, chroniqueur pour Tariq Al-Shaab, le journal du Parti communiste irakien. « C’est le royaume de la libre expression », renchérit Leïla Soudani, une esthéticienne, poétesse à ses heures. Durant la semaine, la rue Moutanabi est un simple marché aux livres, l’un des multiples souks spécialisés du vieux #Bagdad, non loin de la rue des tanneurs. Longtemps monopole des plumes officielles du régime baasiste, l’endroit a trouvé un nouveau souffle après la chute de Saddam Hussein, en 2003, grâce à la réforme de la Société des écrivains irakiens et à l’afflux de publications jusque-là interdites.

DUEL DE POÉSIE

Mais c’est le vendredi, jour de congé hebdomadaire, que le phénomène Moutanabi donne toute sa mesure. L’endroit mue en une #agora pleine de vie, un hybride de Fête de l’Humanité et du Speaker’s Corner, ce coin de Hyde Park, à Londres, où des anonymes, juchés sur des chaises, haranguent les promeneurs. Sur quelques centaines de mètres, la Bagdad laïque et créative des années 1960-1970, réapparaît soudain.

#laïcité #Irak

Vow of Freedom of #Religion Goes Unkept in Egypt
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/world/middleeast/egypt-religious-minorities.html

CAIRO — The architects of the military takeover in Egypt promised a new era of tolerance and pluralism when they deposed President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood last summer.

Nine months later, though, Egypt’s freethinkers and religious minorities are still waiting for the new leadership to deliver on that promise. Having suppressed Mr. Morsi’s Islamist supporters, the new military-backed government has fallen back into patterns of sectarianism that have prevailed here for decades.

Prosecutors continue to jail Coptic Christians, Shiite Muslims and atheists on charges of contempt of religion. A panel of Muslim scholars has cited authority granted under the new military-backed Constitution to block screenings of the Hollywood blockbuster “Noah” because it violates an Islamic prohibition against depictions of the prophets.

The military leader behind the takeover, Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, often appeals to the Muslim majority in a language of shared piety that recalls #Anwar_el-Sadat, nicknamed the believer president, who invoked religious authority to bolster his legitimacy and inscribed into the Constitution the principles of Islamic law.

(...)

Mr. Sisi, a former general who stepped down to run for president, often portrays himself as the champion of a benign understanding of Islam, accusing his Islamist opponents of twisting the faith.

“Islam has never been like this,” Mr. Sisi said while addressing his fellow Muslims in a televised speech in August. “It has never scared anybody or terrified anybody, regardless of whether the person it is addressing is good or bad.”

But the clerics closest to Mr. Sisi can be harsh toward those they deem bad Muslims.

Last month, for example, state television cameras followed Mr. Sisi to a military installation for a Friday Prayer service led by Sheikh Ali Gomaa, a former mufti and a close Sisi ally. During the broadcast, Sheikh Gomaa referred indirectly but unmistakably to Mr. Sisi’s Islamist opponents as a “faction of hypocrites” who were “plotting schemes against the Muslims.” He lauded the soldiers and police officers who fought such “terrorists.”

“Blessed are those who kill them, as well as those whom they kill,” Sheikh Gomaa declared. The cameras caught Mr. Sisi listening attentively.

Using religion to legitimize the “coup leaders” and undermine their opponents has become extensive, said Emad Shahin, a respected political scientist who left Egypt because the new government charged him with conspiring against it.

Une #petitesse qu’on ne peut reprocher à #Nasser je crois.

#Egypte #sectarisme #Opportunisme #Sissi #petit

The roots and future of sectarianism in the Gulf
▻http://pomeps.org/2014/03/21/the-roots-and-future-of-sectarianism-in-the-gulf

If institutions and political life in the Gulf were marked by greater inclusivity and pluralism, then sectarian identities would be less politicized and less malign. Social media and regional conflicts would have less of a mobilizing effect on Gulf citizens. Finally, two key variables will shape and perhaps temper the future of Shiite-Sunni tensions in the Gulf: generational change – within royal families and Shiite opposition networks – and evolving splits within Sunni Islamism, specifically conflict between Brotherhood and Salafi currents.

(...)

What has been missing is a focus on the role of institutions and the agency of political elites in inflaming sectarian passions.

#Golfe #sectarisme #élite #instrumentalisation

Can ‘SuShi’ births challenge Lebanon’s confessional system? | Al Akhbar English
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/can-%E2%80%98sushi%E2%80%99-births-challenge-lebanon%E2%80%99s-co

”SuShi” children

A study conducted by the Chamber of Commerce found that there are 400,000 Shia-Sunni mixed sect births in Lebanon, and another 350,000 Christian-Muslim births. Together, they form almost 20 percent of Lebanon’s population. Keeping in line with this growing trend, a new label is being attached to individuals with parents from both the Sunni and Shia sects: “SuShi.” Hisham Kanso, a “SuShi” living between Kinshasa and Beirut said, “the term ‘SuShi’ is just another word coined by the Lebanese, but we will never become a third sect. We support our nation, and we don’t limit ourselves to groups." Aya Haydar, also born from Sunni-Shia parents, hopes that people like her work towards attaining a secular country.

#Liban #sectarisme #laïcité

Educons !... Le délire paranoïaque du système pédago-politico-médiatique continue : alors que le système éducatif est censé donner des repères, des limites et aussi des encouragements à l’esprit critique et à l’initiative des jeunes en formation, on vire des élèves pour un geste dérisoire, parce que quelques tarés fanatiques veulent y voir un geste d’intolérance et de sectarisme. Mais où sont l’intolérance, le sectarisme et l’exclusion ?...

Les deux élèves auteurs d’une « quenelle » exclus de leur lycée - Libération

▻http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2014/01/09/les-deux-eleves-auteurs-d-une-quenelle-exclus-de-leur-lycee_971811?xtor=r

▻http://md1.libe.com/photo/610168-un-fan-de-dieudonne-fait-une-quenelle-signe-de-ralliement-du-polemi

Les deux lycéens scolarisés dans l’Essonne avaient été placés brièvement en garde à vue lundi. Ils assurent n’avoir pas voulu faire un geste antisémite.(...)

#intolérance #sectarisme #exclusion #racisme #totalitarisme #fanatisme #quenelle #1984 #politique #démagogie #éducons

Playing Politics With Religion - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/opinion/global/playing-politics-with-religion.html?_r=1

Par #OUSAMA_MAKDISI

The fact that Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite and that many of the leading military forces are controlled by Alawite officers is an obviously salient factor in exacerbating sectarian tensions in Syria. But the regime is not Alawite in any religious sense. Like the ostensibly “Sunni” regime of Saddam Hussein that long brutalized Iraq, it is essentially despotic.

(...)

The main characteristic of these regimes has not been sectarianism; they manipulate any division among their people to secure and keep power. By contrast, the dynasties of Saudi Arabia and Qatar reject religious pluralism as a matter of state ideology. Both countries have encouraged an extraordinary outpouring of sectarian incitement against the Shiites of the Arab world in a bid to retain absolute power and to undermine what they regard as their most formidable regional foe: Shiite Iran. Tehran has close ties to Damascus and is patron to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

But the intervention by Saudi Arabia and Qatar against the Assad regime is not necessarily for sectarian reasons. Rather, both monarchies have secular interests, namely preserving the region’s pro-Western petroleum order, which provides great benefits to the Saud and Thani regimes. To the extent that they are involved in a major struggle against Iran, they do so in explicit coordination with the United States.

Thus the sectarian dimension cannot and must not be isolated from the far more obvious and salient secular geopolitical one. It is politics that pushes sectarianism, that provides it with the enabling context, and that now encourages and legitimates the devastating violence across sectarian lines that is ravaging Syria and Iraq and Lebanon.

#instrumentalisation_du_religieux ressorts du #sectarisme #moyen_orient #géopolitique

Trois Femen condamnées à quatre mois de prison ferme en Tunisie
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/tunisie/article/2013/06/12/trois-femen-condamnees-a-quatre-mois-de-prison-ferme-en-tunisie_3428978_1466

Une info à l’attention de ceux et celles qui critiquent aigrement les Femen.

Lundi 1er juillet à 19h, #rencontre des #archives_Getaway , à la Maison Ouverte, 17 rue Hoche, M° Mairie de Montreuil ou Croix de chavaux.

Une série de rendez-vous réguliers pour partager les initiatives et chantiers en cours, envisager de nouvelles pistes de travail.

Programme :

• Radios libres, pirates, de lutte, de mouvement... Ouvrir à un travail autour de ces pratiques, cerner comment ce médium a été investi, ce qu’il a de particulier. On se demandera quelles tentatives ont eu lieu ? pour porter quelles paroles, quelles propositions ? dans ou hors d’un mouvement, d’une lutte ? est-il intéressant de se donner les moyens de retrouver des enregistrements ? qu’en faire ? Grâce aux documents disponibles, on essayera de comprendre comment était composé et par quoi était traversé le mouvement des radios libres, et d’envisager ce qu’on pourrait en faire aujourd’hui.

• Projection de Radio Alice à Paris , film tourné fin 1977 en vidéo, à la paluche, par François Pain. #Bifo parle à Laborde. Des membres de #Radio_Alice sont à Paris et enregistrent une émission de radio. Des images de Bologne. Ce film est resté, à notre connaissance, invisible depuis une trentaine d’années. Nous avons pu le faire nettoyer et numériser pour le diffuser à nouveau.

• Des nouvelles du fond. Depuis l’inauguration des archives, un fond conséquent nous a été confié. Nous en ouvrirons ensemble un élément : la petite valise verte.

►http://getaway.eu.org/accueil

►http://getaway.eu.org/presents

#luttes_sociales #groupes_révolutionnaires

Manifestations contre le mariage homosexuel - YouTube
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jguCuE_DOgs