Tunisian Revolution
Reader comment on item: The Tug of War for Tunisia

Submitted by Ali Alyami, Jan 23, 2011 18:50

The Tunisians are among the least religious people in the Arab and Muslim Worlds. . The men and women who gave their lives to oust the butcher of Tunis were not protesting to restore Islamic law. They were fed up with a tyrant family that oppressed and humiliated them for more than two decades.

The only way the Islamist may have a chance in Tunis is if the West let the Saudis, Iranians and other Arab and Muslim dictators pour billions of dollars to build infrastructure and feed people like they did in Gaza and Lebanon.

Ali Alymi

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