Anything breaststroke toward the Arab world could it inspire in us a Democratic surge? Hopefully it.
For our gaze on the Arab-Muslim world is twisted from the beginning of the 1990s, articulated by a strong current but that concern has emerged, particularly USA: neo-conservatism. This movement sought to reaffirm the moral superiority of the West on the other civilizations of our planet, criticizing the top "Islamic civilization", supposedly incapable of rationality or impervious to democracy. This simplistic and biased view (where to place Indonesia or Turkey in this civilization supposedly homogeneous?), Has long been guilty of supporting tyrants like Saddam Hussein, the Saud family, Mubarak, Ben Ali, Kadhafi, Bouteflika and many others - on the pretext that these dictators as a bulwark against Islamism.
But it is the Arab street that reminds us these days the importance of collective mobilization against the state. And without that Islamism will be a large part in most democratic countries in shock ...
Here, nearly 250,000 people signed a petition calling 1 Jean Charest to resign , given his stubbornness in not wanting to trigger a Public Inquiry into the construction and government contracting and its refusal to impose a moratorium before we embark on the exploitation of shale gas ...
Are we able to move from words to deeds? A simple click from Facebook or Twitter with us can also lead to an extraordinary mobilization to demand the resignation of Jean Charest?
A work colleague of mine has just launched the initiative on 12 March, go from words to deeds and come STREET show your anger against corruption and blindness of our Prime Minister! (Venue: Canada Place, corner of Peel and Rene-Levesque - Date / Time: Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:00)
This could be the start of something ... Our version 2.0 of the Arab spring ...
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