Posted on 10/24/2011 5:51:04 AM PDT by EBH
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities counted votes Monday in carefully watched elections, with early signs that a once-banned Islamist party is leading in many constituencies in the country that unleashed uprisings across the Arab world.
Tunisia was known for decades for its repressive leadership but also for its progressive legislation on women and families, which secular-leaning Tunisians fear the moderate Islamist party Ennahda would roll back if it takes a commanding number of seats in the new assembly being created by Sunday's elections.
Ennahda believes that Islam should be the reference point for the country's system and laws but maintains that it will respect women's rights and is committed to democracy and working with other parties.
"During the campaign the Islamist party was quite disciplined in saying they will protect human rights, they will protect the rights of women and maintain equality, but in fact this is an open question," said Ricky Goldstein who observed the elections for the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "Their discourse in some areas was vague and ambiguous."
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that a once-banned Islamist party ....
Gee...what exactly is that party pray tell?
“Moderate Islamist party” is a phrase that sends my BS meter into the red zone.
Gird your loins!
(I read that in my brand-new edition of Biden’s Quotations.)
Yep, here we go!
The domino effect in North Africa and the Middle East is launched...
I just hope my kid won’t be draftable by the time we have to in there...
Arab spring, my a**...
By the time the Caliphate is established in the Middle East, we should already have found additional sources of oil. And if the camel jockeys still want to mess with us by then, we should nuke them. Sort of like what we threatened the Soviets back in the days.
Well, if we are to find additional sources of oil to sustain an effort anywhere in the world, we sure are taking our sweet time, don’t ya think?
Got to get the a**hole in the white house outta there to achieve any energy goals...
Gee...I don't think they like Progressives very much, Barack. What a tangled web has been woven.
Why am I not surprised?
Yeah--if you steal a loaf of bread, they only chop off two and a half fingers instead of your whole hand.
Amen...
but then the o’bozo we have as a leader is really a “progressive muslim”, at best...
an oxymoron for sure..
Barack and his agitators have just been used by the theocracy. They thought they could get away with ...accomplishing what? Giving them freedom without nation building?
I’ll be darned. They didn’t choose freedom. They chose an islamic theocracy.
So true...
All these vacuums that are being created by the downfall of dictators will be filled by the muslim fundamentalists and where will O’bozo be? Holding Moochelle’s purse in some mall in Chicago while our kids will be shipping out...
Epic fail...
We destroy Islam by expoloiting our own natural resources and making the Middle East irrelevant.
“Got to get the a**hole in the white house outta there...”
Truer words have never been written.
A conservative president and Sarah Palin as the Secretary of Energy would set America’s energy independence in the right direction.
Ah, wonderful mental picture of how that would look...
Let’s hope the dream becomes reality...cheers!
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) worked with the Russians during the Cold War only because they, like us, cared about their own survival. Alas, crazed Islamists don't have that mindset.
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