Posted on 03/20/2013 5:30:11 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Social disruption, dramatic declines in mining and tourism and the Feb. 6 assassination of popular leftist leader Chokri Belaid, who was gunned down outside his home in the capital apparently by hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, have all contributed to a darkened atmosphere inside the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
There’s a sullen resentment at the failure of the Islamist government -- it is ruling with two secular center-left parties – to move the economy on.
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I’m shocked, shocked I say that the extremist want to rule. Who knew?
There’s a sullen resentment at the failure of the Islamist government -- it is ruling with two secular center-left parties – to move the economy on.
Eh? What? Seventh century ideology isn't up to 21st century economics? Why, how could such a thing be?
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