Posted on 09/16/2022 10:46:28 AM PDT by SJackson
After the fighting between Israel and Hamas in 2012, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki announced that he wanted to visit Gaza.
“I congratulate Ismail Haniyeh (the Hamas prime minister) on the victory in Gaza,” he said.
Marzouki had previously met with delegations from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. His support for the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group was so blatant that even the PLO had warned him not to come to Gaza. After leaving office, Marzouki boarded the Hamas flotilla invading Israel. When the flotilla was intercepted, Israel deported him. These days, Tunisia doesn’t want him either.
But Massachusetts does.
More recently an arrest warrant was issued for the arrest of Marzouki by his own country. He was sentenced to four years in prison for national security violations last year.
Marzouki, then in Paris, was quoted as warning that, “I’ll soon return home to Tunisia and overthrow the incumbent regime” and “I’m waiting for a signal from the militants in Tunisia to decide on the date of my return to Tunis”.
Instead, he’s going to Harvard where there are even more militants than in Tunis.
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance at Harvard’s Kennedy School announced that it’s appointing the international fugitive and longtime Islamist ally as a senior fellow. The Harvard announcement makes no mention of either Marzouki’s support for Islamic terrorism against Jews or the fact that he is a wanted criminal. But they do hail him as a hero of the Arab Spring.
Last year, after a barrage of Hamas rockets and terrorist attacks, Marzouki had phoned Hamas boss Ismail Haniyeh to congratulate him for the “victory for the Arab and Muslim Ummah.”
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Marzouki told the Qatari Islamist media operation, “I have always supported Hamas because it is a national resistance movement. When I was president of Tunisia, I received Khaled Meshaal and Ismail Haniyeh, totally ignoring the US ambassador’s indignation at the meeting.”
Harvard has no objection to this. And instead describes Marzouki as a “freedom fighter.”
“I am delighted that President Marzouki has chosen the Ash Center as a place from which to share the wisdom and lessons he has gained in helping to bring democracy to Tunisia,” Archon Fung, Ash’s director, declared, describing a terrorist supporter and fugitive as a “leader who has spent most of his life working to strengthen human rights, the rule of law.”
Nothing says human rights and the law of rule like supporting a racist Islamic terror group.
Aside from Marzouki’s support for Hamas, he’s widely reviled in his own country as a puppet of the murderous Islamist Ennahda movement, a cousin of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its Qatari backers. The thuggish leader had once told Al Jazeera that if secularists come to power, they would face the gallows.
Marzouki will be lecturing at Harvard on issues related to democracy.
“This revolution will be pitiless to them,” Marzouki had warned, “because there will be no reasonable individuals such as Mustapha Ben Jaafar, Moncef Marzouki, or Rached Ghannouchi to call for dialogue, moderation, and national reconciliation.”
Ghannouchi, a key Ennahda figure, and an ally of Marzouki, had endorsed Jewish genocide. “There are no civilians in Israel. The population—males, females and children—are the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed.”
A Harvard Kennedy analysis claimed that Ghannouchi “sounded like Thomas Jefferson”.
It’s understandable that Harvard in its current state can’t tell Jefferson and Hitler apart. Or that it decided to bring in Marzouki to explain democracy and human rights to its students.
While the Harvard Kennedy School is dominated by the name of the deceased president, it was originally funded by a $2.2 million gift from Rep. Lucius Nathan Littauer.
Littauer, a Harvard grad, football coach and Republican congressman, was a Jewish philanthropist. He founded what was then the Graduate School of Public Administration for the sake of public service. Not to provide a platform for supporting the murder of Jews. Under the Kennedy name, the John F. Kennedy School of Government has decided to go another way.
Harvard Kennedy hails Marzouki as a “voice of social and revolutionary activism” who worked for the “strengthening of civil rights in Tunisia”. Marzouki explained that he could not allow female equality in the Constitution because “Tunisian women would be able to marry Christians or Jews”.
And the Islamists whom he depended on would not accept that.
“Everywhere today we see the fragility of democracy,” Marzouki stated. “I am grateful for the opportunity to spend time at the Harvard Kennedy school, with its talented students and researchers, reflecting on what we can do to make democracy stronger.”
In between reflecting on how to strengthen democracy, Marzouki spends much of his time on social media denouncing Tunisia’s current government and calling for more revolution.
If anyone knows how fragile democracy is, it’s Marzouki who allegedly started out as a Marxist and then became an Islamist catspaw and cheers on Islamic terrorists. Like many of the democracy advocates of the Arab Spring, Marzouki knows how to tell western liberals and his Islamist allies what they want to hear. Harvard’s Ash Center celebrates Marzouki as a human rights activist, but they avoid delving into just what sort of rights he advocates.
In 2006, Marzouki appeared on Al Jazeera to blast Tunisia’s secular president for criticizing the hijab.
“The Tunisian dictator personally took the lead on October 11 by excoriating the wearing of the veil in the country,” he fumed. And urged secularists to join the protest by wearing “a black armband on our right arm.”
His stature as a human rights activist was nurtured by an alliance with Islamists and statements in support of their cause on Qatar’s Al Jazeera. And Al Jazeera ceaselessly promotes him. Qatar was the not so hidden hand behind the Arab Spring and remains a major backer of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of its network terror group, Hamas.
In 2016, Mohamed Zouari, a Tunisian member of Ennahda, who worked on Hamas’ terror drone program, was assasinated in the town of Sfax.
Marzouki visited Gaza and took part in a propaganda event by Hamas’ Qassam Brigades where he declared, “From here, from Sfax – from this citadel of Arabism and Islam – I would like to say to heroic, starved, and martyred Gaza, which almost collapses under the destruction, and to our heroes defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque” and urged “following in the footsteps of the martyr Mohamed Zouari for the sake of the noble Palestinian cause.”
This is Harvard’s idea of democracy. It just happens to look a whole lot like Islamic terrorism.
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Evidently, Harvard thinks it can do no wrong. I sure hope its donors think otherwise.
Well, this is the same place where for years it’s been fashionable to put posters of Mao’s likeness up in dorm rooms or faculty offices.
“When the flotilla was intercepted, Israel deported him.”
Israel needs to lighten up and have more fun. A torpedo-armed submarine would have been a better solution, plus you could re-enact WWI U-boat battles.
> “When the flotilla was intercepted, Israel deported him.”
> Israel needs to lighten up and have more fun. A torpedo-armed submarine would have been a better solution, plus you could re-enact WWI U-boat battles.
I like the way you think.
“the Arab Spring”
From which the Middle East got -
(11) the Egyptian Islamist Mohamed Morsi (a Member of the Egptian Muslim Brotherhood) electeAs president, in a short lived reign. As President Morsi issued a temporary constitutional declaration - by executive fiat - in November 2012 that in effect granted him unlimited powers and the power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his acts as a pre-emptive move against the expected dissolution of the second constituent assemblyd president. Most opposition groups rejected the legality of the declaration. The new constitution that was then hastily finalised by the Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly, presented to the president, and scheduled for a referendum before the Supreme Constitutional Court could rule on the constitutionality of the assembly, was described by independent press agencies not aligned with the regime as an “Islamist coup”. These issues, along with complaints of prosecutions of journalists and attacks on nonviolent demonstrators, led to the 2012 protests. As part of a compromise, Morsi rescinded the decrees. A new constitution was approved by approximately two-thirds of voters in the referendum, although turnout was less than a third of the electorate. The result was nationwide protests against the Morsi regime which was believed by a majority of Egyptians to be an Islamist coup. Backing the protestors and the political and religious leaders opposed to Moris, the military stepped in and removed Morsi. So much for western medling and the Arab Spring im Egypt/
(2) Syria - again it was unmistakable that the leading and majority figures in the “Syrian oppostion” was not the organizations and figures publicly promoted in the west. No, the leading organization was the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, and the biggest and stongest armed opposition groups were radical fundmentalist Islamist groups. It was not out of character that the Islmist Morsi of Ehypt gave his support and public approval to the “Syrian Opposition”. In the end. the Arab Spring in Syria resulted in the near total destabilization of Syria, the growth pf ISIS in SyriA, the growth of Russian and Iranian influnce im Syria, the growth and strengthning of Hedzbolla in Syra and eventully an ISIS army capabls of moving back into Iraq and tking over (temporarily) a very large swath of Iraqi territory. Those were the “accomplishments” of the ArAb Spring in Syria.
(3) Tunisia - While the Jasmine Revolution (said to be the start of the Arab spimg) was basically succesful in removinga a tyranical regime, producing a new constitution, electing a new government and seeing a democratic replacement of that government, the legal status of Moncef Marzouki (a “moderate” Islamist) shows the cultural and religious conflicts between Islamists in Tunisia and traditional Tunisian positions is not over.
I think the overall problem demonstrated by the Arab Soring is the very large size of Islamists behind the movements and the obervation that to them democracy is not both means and an end, but just the meamns to an end -poswer to them And from swhich in power they can rule over the interests of those who are not Islamsists and impose Islamist baeed rules on everyone.
Harvard sucks.
Another excellent, excellent article from Daniel Greenfield. Please read!
Ghannouchi, a key Ennahda figure, and an ally of Marzouki, had endorsed Jewish genocide. “There are no civilians in Israel. The population—males, females and children—are the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed.”
A Harvard Kennedy analysis claimed that Ghannouchi “sounded like Thomas Jefferson”.
It’s understandable that Harvard in its current state can’t tell Jefferson and Hitler apart. Or that it decided to bring in Marzouki to explain democracy and human rights to its students.
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In 2016, Mohamed Zouari, a Tunisian member of Ennahda, who worked on Hamas’ terror drone program, was assasinated in the town of Sfax.
Marzouki visited Gaza and took part in a propaganda event by Hamas’ Qassam Brigades where he declared, “From here, from Sfax – from this citadel of Arabism and Islam – I would like to say to heroic, starved, and martyred Gaza, which almost collapses under the destruction, and to our heroes defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque” and urged “following in the footsteps of the martyr Mohamed Zouari for the sake of the noble Palestinian cause.”
This is Harvard’s idea of democracy. It just happens to look a whole lot like Islamic terrorism.
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Harvard takes in real terrorists while teaching against conservative Americans. Maybe we should sent them a few thousand illegals to assimilate'...
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You can hope but it won't happen. Alumni, especially the younger ones, have been completely brainwashed.
If your kid gets accepted at Harvard, refuse to pay for it.
Oh boy. The sheer hypocrisy of “progressives” support for fanatical backwards Islamists.
It is truly astounding that “progressives” take the wrong side in almost everything.
I do not believe that I have every seen their group-think choose the right side since “It Happened on 34th Street”, where the protagonists chose Santa over Macys (?).
How do these so-called progressives ally themselves with regressive fanatical Hamas? Then again, why should one wonder about these ...
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