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Ed Webb

How Tunisia dealt with the 'Islamic question' - Amanpour - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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Tunisia ennahda Islamists Salafists constitution politics

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  • “There was some dispute about enshrining sharia,” he said, “that’s why we had to push away the controversy and we settled for what was said in the 1959 constitution about Tunisia as an Arab country.” 
  • there will be no sharia or anti-blasphemy laws in the Tunisian constitution
  • Rabbi Benjamin Hatab leads Tunisia’s main synagogue and said that Ghannouchi had reached out to the country’s Jewish community. "He declared that the country would not change and that the only difference would be that it would be more democratic than Ben Ali's Tunisia,” the Jewish leader told Ynet.
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  • constitutions are built on what's agreed upon
  • “I wanted to tell the Salafists that they must be - they must work under the law because the law will give them all the ability to form political parties, to work in societies, to work in mosques,” he said about the video. “What I wanted to do is to convince them to become part of the legal system, like other countries like us, like leftists or like radical groups in Germany or in Italy and Ireland, which left - which abandoned violence and now work under the law.”
  • Tunisian society is a Muslim society, but a moderate one. That's why there is no hope for any radical group to control the Tunisian society, because it's a society which went through a revolution against dictatorship and will not allow any group like that, even in the name of a religion
Ed Webb

Egypt deserves better | Egypt Independent - 0 views

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Egypt constitution opinion analysis

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  • Unless the opposition devises means to inform the greater public of why they should not accept the proposed draft, weary and disillusioned citizens will, despite misgivings, vote “yes” just to have done with it and “move forward.”
  • far from restoring stability, rushing the constitutional referendum will set an ever more divided Egypt further back
  • I write this in Upper Egypt, where communities awaiting a decent high tourist season, the first in two years, are grimly watching it dissolve before their eyes thanks to agitation in Cairo. They will largely vote “yes” for anything that allows them to get on with their lives, as will many nationwide whose livelihoods have suffered since January 2011.
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  • What the opposition has learned in the last two years about communicating in ways that average people can understand will soon be apparent.
Ed Webb

Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair - Opinion - Ahram Online - 0 views

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Egypt analysis opinion MN ikh wan Israel media US USA

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  • Ed Webb on 12 Dec 12
     
    Bernard Lewis, not Louis.
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