Calling for firmness and imposing order following the attack on the US embassy<\/p>\n
Ghannoushi: fundamentalists are a danger for Tunisia<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Deputy Secretary General for Minorities at the IUMS and head of the Islamic Al-Nahda Party sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannoushi said that salafi jihadists pose a danger for Tunisia and that the Tunisian state should use firmness after the attack on the US embassy.<\/p>\n
He continued that “every time some groups or parties transgress freedom, firmness must be used as well as insistence on imposing order.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ghannoushi added that “these people constitute a danger not only to Al-Nahda but to public freedoms in the country and its security. That\u2019s why we are all confronting these groups, but in ways that respect the law\u201d.<\/p>\n
On another level, Ghannoushi refused accusations to the Tunisian government of laxity for refraining from arresting a jihadist leader called Abu Iyad suspected to be involved in the attack on the US embassy and an American school in Tunisia last Friday.<\/p>\n
Four protesters were killed, 49 wounded and 91 police officers wounded within these clashes.<\/p>\n
Seif Allah bin Hussein, known as Abu Iyad who leads the Ansar Al-Sharia group in Tunisia, gave a speech afternoon Monday at the Al-Fath Mosque in the capital, surrounded by his supporters but was able to leave the location undisturbed despite the intense presence of security forces at the beginning of his speech.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Calling for firmness and imposing order following the attack on the US embassy