- In Tunisia, the Islamists Al Nahda Party emerged victorious with 41 per cent of the votes. Perhaps the most 'worrying' success was that of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. (Gulf News)
- TUNIS, Feb 17 (Reuters) Tunisian police fired tear gas today to disperse hundreds of conservative Islamists who poured out of a mosque after noon prayers calling for an Islamic state in the Mediterranean holiday spot now governed by a moderate Islamist party. (Deepika Global)
- Wajdi Ghonim, an Egyptian Islamist preacher, has recently visited Tunisia, where he gave a series of religious lectures. His visit has been the centre of a heated debate on citizen media. (Global Voices Online.org)
- Less than two months after Tunisias Islamist-led government took office, successive visits by radical clerics have heightened fears among Tunisians that hardline version of Islam was allowed to spread across the country. (Middle East Online)
- Buoyed by electoral successes of their counterparts in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, Islamists in Algeria are predicting major wins during the election. (Huffington Post)
- Nahda, the Brotherhood chapter that won Tunisia's election, supported the nomination of a non-Islamist president yet kept key ministerial portfolios. Egypt's Ikhwan are proposing a similar arrangement. (Economist.com)
- Well, it is not quite so. (AINA)
Sunday, February 19, 2012
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