Posted on 03/01/2011 7:54:13 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
AFP - Tunisia's Islamist movement Ennahda, banned under the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who was toppled in January, has been legalised 30 years after it was formed, it announced Tuesday.
"The Ennahda movement has just been legalised," spokesman Ali El-Aryadh told AFP.
The interim government installed after Ben Ali's fall on January 14 after weeks of street protests granted unprecedented freedoms and allowed exiles to return despite the bans from the old regime.
Ennahda (Awakening) leader Rached Ghannouchi returned on January 30 after nearly 20 years in exile, mostly in London, to be welcomed by thousands of people.
He founded the movement in 1981 with intellectuals inspired by the influential Muslim Brotherhood born in Egypt.
The group was tolerated in the initial years after Ben Ali took power in 1987 but denied legal registration.
An Islamist-backed coalition won 17 percent of the vote in 1989 elections, even though the vote was heavily falsified, leading to a crackdown on the movement.
About 30,000 activists and Islamist sympathisers were arrested in the 1990s and many went into exile.
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Buh Bye Tunisia.
What could go wrong?
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
Tolerating the intolerant sucks
I just wish I could grab one of those IDIOTS with the coexist bumper sticker by the throat and shove their face right into this mess so they would see the light. They wouldn’t get it even as the dull rusty scimitar was severing their head from torso.
I pretty much regard anyone with more than zero bumperstickers on their cars as being idiotic a-holes.
I wholeheartedly agree. The only reason to legalize a group of terrorist wannabees is to get them to come out into the light — then round them up and execute them without trial — then defile and dump their bodies into the sea.
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