Nationalism, islamism … - What colors will the arabs fly after their “spring”?

...!” But, as it always happens, some people start the revolution while others take over (or ruin) it. The pioneers of the revolution were intellectuals but it was the broad masses which became its driving force. They did not need freedom, much less democracy which was unknown to them but justice, dignity and subsistence. That was what the new leaders-Islamists promised and the people followed them. For decades, the Islamic fundamentalists, that is, advocates of a return to the roots would put forward one idea: all the troubles of the Muslim world occurred because the wicked rulers had departed from ...