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Thousands of cheering supporters welcome Tunisian Islamist party leader on return from exile
Canadian Press via Google ^ | January 30,2011 | Bouazza Ben Bouazza
Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 9:55:07 AM 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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Thanks for the cutting edge updates Unc!
This thing is becomming very predictable. It’s no longer a long shot as to what direction it is going!
Right there we see the power of words. If the war the west is waging since 2001 had not been named WOT but WOI this creep would have spent his time in jail in Britain (at best).