Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Back Where It All Began...

A Victory for Arab Liberals
"Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahda has caved to overwhelming pressure from liberal, leftist, and other secular parties and abandoned its push for making Islam the basis of the country's new constitution.

Just a few days ago I spoke to several people here in Tunis who thought a compromise might be reached, that Sharia law would be described in the constitution as a source of legislation rather than the source, but it looks like the Islamists won't even get that much."
Let's hope, like the original Arab Spring, this victory for modernism will spread East.

It used to be that Egypt (under Gamel Abdel Nasser) was the center of the Arab world. Maybe that is changing. Interesting times.

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