Posted on 01/30/2011 8:55:07 AM PST by Pan_Yan
TUNIS, Tunisia — The leader of a long-outlawed Tunisian Islamist party was welcomed at the airport by thousands of cheering supporters on Sunday as he returned to his homeland after more than two decades in exile.
Rachid Ghanouchi and about 70 other exiled members of Ennahdha, or Renaissance, flew home from Britain two weeks after autocratic President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced from power by violent protests. Ghanouchi took up a megaphone to address the crowd outside the airport, but his voice was drowned out by shrill ululating cries and shouts of "God is great!"
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The new activism by Islamists — who want a role for Islam in their country's politics — is feeding jitters that extremism may be on the rise in Tunisia, long a Westward-looking nation proud of its modern identity: women enjoy widespread freedoms, Muslim headscarves are banned in public buildings and abortions, a deep taboo in most Muslim societies, are legal.
Ennahdha insists that fears of radicalism have no merit. Before leaving London, Ghanouchi tried to reassure the country's women, saying he believed they deserve "the freedom to study, to work and to help build the country, whether they wear the veil or not."
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Wow.
Never seen this type of thing happen before. Nooooo sir!
If the Tunisians think they are going to get “democracy” with the Islamists, they will soon be disabused of that notion.
> Wow.
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> Never seen this type of thing happen before.
Yes.
I’m underwhelmed.
These people just love having the immam’s boot heel on their necks. All it takes is one word from him and they will die a brutal, painful death.
Idiots.
This could be Iran to the 9th degree...
Welcome Sharia law to North Africa, as in days of yore.
Yeah this development was not predictable. /s
A bloody war and/or series of wars will be the ultimate result.
As one citizen of Iran stated after the revolution “They promised us heaven but created hell on earth”.
Look on the bright side.. the more countries the Islamists (political Islam, Sharia law, jihad advocates) take over the more hard targets there are.
No more claims that it's only a bunch of people who are making war against us..
(Yes, we should be careful to avoid annihilating the innocent in those Islamist countries as we defend against Islamism.)
Personally, I don’t think an Islamist state would work in Tunisia. This might result in some of the Islamists having their heads handed to them in the end.
...great.
Just great.
What’s really fascinating is the idiots in Europe giving these maniacs asylum until they can return and take over.
Khomeini returned from France, right?
Uh oh. Arab-wide Caliphate, here we come.
Maybe we can sow dissention among the various Islamofascists and they can murder each other for the next hundred years.
Otherwise, they’re coming after us.
Yes he did, but sadly, I think we were paying him to stay there.
Lots of Iran happening all over the place
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