Joe,
Your apology is as appreciated as it was unexpected, so I should also apologise for forming too harsh an opinion of you. I believe the person who finds relief in being sincere and honest with themselves is a person whom Allah has blessed with His guidance. And although you might not call yourself a believer...don’t believe it :-) Insha'Allah, we’ll meet soon!

salaams

Thank you, Grateful - but I hope that 'Yvonne Ridley' is not a pseudonym for a spokesperson for Islamist groups who are skilful enough politically to try to insert themselves into the changes in Tunisia as the 'revolutionary' alternative.

Ultimately, the struggle in countries like Tunisia will still be between the secular progressive forces, including moderate Moslems for whom their Islam is one thing but their rights as day-to-day citizens are another - and the Islamist forces, aided by their dumb-@rse 'leftist' allies.

The Islamists - as in Iran, and as with al Qa'ida - are not a progressive alternative, but a force which will drag countries and people back into pre-capitalist, pre-bourgeois, semi-feudal societies. It's amazing that anybody should have to actually spell that out.

Joe

Joe,
What do you make of Turkey?

@ Joe

Talk turkey with care.

Grateful qari ride Trojan

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