Recently I had occasion to reread the book of Sayyid Qutb, the ideologue of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood [hanged in 1966] titled "Milestones on the road." Specific points that I had not noticed thirty years ago this time have caught my attention. Indeed, why not see Jacobin radicalism that emerges from the works of Qutb?! It is thus quite striking resemblance between radical political projects, be they secular or Islamic.
Whether in the name of reason or religion, proponents of these projects feel "mission-oriented avant-garde." They are convinced that they alone know what is right and go into battle without a thank you, which for them is the "only true revolution" against the institutions and society (the "bourgeois", the "reactionary" the "ignorant" or "superstitious") who obviously lived in "darkness".
The goal, according to Qutb, was thus to "change society from its roots." So that was the vision of a sociological construction whose engine is powered by the power of an authoritarian state. It is a characteristic common to all radical movements since the French Revolution until the late twentieth century.
This approach has obviously been an important function during this period. But today, companies are not as passive. Through education, urbanization, communication, income which are not only insured by agriculture or by the state but by the market economy, with the discovery of an external world, these companies have won maturity.
State paternalism is questioned and demands for more freedom and democracy reinforce each other. Thus fades the vision of an authoritarian state in favor of a design where the public is limited by the expansion of freedoms. Decentralization tends to intensify the political, whether the political parties themselves, civil society or local government.
Even the "single truth" is hit by this wave of decentralization. It is now recognized that there are many truths. The "Zeitgeist" is more focused on the State but on the individual and society. President Gül, in May 2003, at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Tehran, warned the heads of state of Muslim countries and called for reforms focusing on the concepts of "democracy , prosperity, peace and freedom.
" "We must develop a new vision animated by a rational thought promoting the rights and freedoms and equality between the sexes." 
Whether in the name of reason or religion, proponents of these projects feel "mission-oriented avant-garde." They are convinced that they alone know what is right and go into battle without a thank you, which for them is the "only true revolution" against the institutions and society (the "bourgeois", the "reactionary" the "ignorant" or "superstitious") who obviously lived in "darkness".
The goal, according to Qutb, was thus to "change society from its roots." So that was the vision of a sociological construction whose engine is powered by the power of an authoritarian state. It is a characteristic common to all radical movements since the French Revolution until the late twentieth century.
This approach has obviously been an important function during this period. But today, companies are not as passive. Through education, urbanization, communication, income which are not only insured by agriculture or by the state but by the market economy, with the discovery of an external world, these companies have won maturity.
State paternalism is questioned and demands for more freedom and democracy reinforce each other. Thus fades the vision of an authoritarian state in favor of a design where the public is limited by the expansion of freedoms. Decentralization tends to intensify the political, whether the political parties themselves, civil society or local government.
Even the "single truth" is hit by this wave of decentralization. It is now recognized that there are many truths. The "Zeitgeist" is more focused on the State but on the individual and society. President Gül, in May 2003, at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Tehran, warned the heads of state of Muslim countries and called for reforms focusing on the concepts of "democracy , prosperity, peace and freedom.
" "We must develop a new vision animated by a rational thought promoting the rights and freedoms and equality between the sexes."
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