1) d'un revirement de la part d'un groupe terroriste islamiste égyptien publié dans le journal pro-gouvernemental égyptien Al-Mussawar le 19 juin. Le groupe aurait, je dis bien aurait car j'ai de la peine à y croire, critiqué ses options et ses actions terroristes, dont le meurtre de touristes occidentaux à Louxor en 1997:
"In the interview, Zohdy criticized the group by touching on its antigovernment terrorism campaign in the 1990s and its tactics.
"Inside Islamic Group and other (Islamist) groups some people know that we have revised our positions in accordance with Islamic Sharia (law) and found that killing civilians is prohibited. It is not right to rebel against the state at all. We, for example, have revised the issue of rebellion against the state with weapons, and we found that there are many points barring and prohibiting such rebellion," he was quoted as saying.
He then expressed apologies to the Egyptian public, and was quoted as saying, "(The Islamic Group owes the Egyptian people) an apology for the crimes which (the group) has committed against Egypt. We are even thinking of paying blood money to the victims."
He also condemned the Sept. 11 attacks, for which the United States held the Al-Qaida network of international extremist Islamic fundamentalist responsible.
2) d'éditoriaux de divers journaux du Moyen-Orient non précisés faisant part de leur surprise devant ce revirement: The group's self-criticisms and apologies apparently have been received with some shock in the Middle East and the Islamic world because none of the extremist Islamic fundamentalist forces had been expected to make any self-criticism or apology considering their fanatical views.
3) d'un éditorial du 2 juillet d'un quotidien libanais, As-Safir favorably evaluated the group's self-criticism.
"As far as is known, no Arab political party or group has taken this path before, and the political leaders who have offered apologies of this sort can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Moreover, such apologies have been mostly of a personal nature. The Egyptian Islamic Group's move points to the need for other Arab political parties and groups to revise and critique their experiences," it said in its editorial.
4) d'un éditorial du journal saoudien Asharq al-Awsat, qui recommande aux autorités saoudiennes de se pencher sur l'éducation religieuse des jeunes membres d'AlQaida, qu'ils qualifient de "manquant de discernement": "If we contemplate changes such as those in the Islamic Group in Egypt, we can see that extremist Islamic movements can abandon their extremism and return to the right path. We may come to realize that process of religious reform that is affecting Islamic Group members in Egypt today may have the same effect on Al-Qaida's eager youth. This can be achieved by addressing these elements with wisdom and good advice," Asharq al-Awsat said in an editorial on July 2.
J'ai demandé vérification de ces surprenantes informations à des personnes lisant l'arabe, et si elles s'avéraient véridiques, il s'agirait d'un cinglant démenti tant à l'idée répandue du manque de liberté de la presse en pays musulmans/islamistes qu'en celle de l'impossibilité de l'évolution de cette religion ...
Ceci étant, je ne crois pas, et les personnes à qui j'en ai parlé non plus, à la sincérité du revirement des terroristes égyptiens. A notre avis, il s'agit soit d'une déclaration arrachée sous la contrainte, soit d'une négociation en vue d'une réduction de sentence (ils sont condamnés à mort).
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