I think Western media had a lot to do with the assumption of people that the Arab Spring will lead to a liberal and secular Middle East. They completely exaggerated the role of Social Media and downplayed or even ignored the role of Mosques and Friday prayers. I read somewhere that many Arab Christians attend Friday prayers in Syria, not to pray, but to take part in the organisation of protests. But the Western media can't be blamed to think the protesters demanded a secular state, because those where the voices they heard, the liberal-minded, Western-educated, English-speaking Twitter and Facebook users, which make up a tiny chunk of those populations.
I also find it extremely presumptuous to speak of an "Islamist winter", which shows how many people are buying into the idea of an Islamist boogeyman. First of all, many post-revolutionary Arab countries had free and democratic elections. The media in those countries gave all parties the opportunity to present their programs and the people had the choice. The Islamists won and I think we are ought to felicitate them for that. The people have chosen Islam, not secularism. To say they did that because they're uneducated is quite insolent. Perhaps they just voted for Islamist parties because they had the best campaigns and talked about the needs of the people, rather than just glorifying the West, which was largely what the secular parties were concerned with.