Tornado Alley (PROG)

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"“We’re surrendering our right to think and speak differently,” said Hamadi Redissi,
one of the two men, still bearing a scab on his forehead from the attack last week.

The challenges before Tunisia’s year-old revolution are immense — righting an ailing economy, drafting a new constitution and recovering from decades of dictatorship that cauterized civic life. But in the first months of a coalition government led by the Ennahda Party, seen as one of the most pragmatic of the region’s Islamist movements, the most emotional of struggles has surged to the forefront: a fight over the identity of an Arab and Muslim society that its authoritarian leaders had always cast as adamantly secular.

The popular revolts that began to sweep across the Middle East one year ago have forced societies like Tunisia’s,
removed from the grip of authoritarian leaders and celebrating an imagined unity, to confront their own complexity."

[...] .. my in .. "to confront their own complexity." .. OH YES! .. how more complex that has to be, than for any one individual!

"“It’s like a war of attrition,” said Said Ferjani, a member of Ennahda’s political bureau, who complained that his party was trapped between two extremes, the most ardently secular and the religious. “They’re trying not to let us focus on the real issues.”"

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""As in Egypt, the prominence of the Salafis since the revolution has taken many Tunisians by surprise. Their numbers pale before their brethren in Egypt, but like them, they are assertive and determined to make their presence felt, often embarrassing more moderate counterparts like Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood.""

For Ennahda and the 'reborn' Muslim Brotherhood, we could pray to the universe ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ptqXqjsZw

thank you .. and ALL the others who fight for ..