Spencer: A jihad in Tunisia

Two women of my family and friends were on a vacation to Tunisia together some years ago. And they agreed afterwards: never again.
That two middle-aged and elderly women cannot go out for a stroll without being greeted by lewd gestures is not the best recommendation for Tunisia. And this in a holiday resort that should not be unacquainted with strangers.

When Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled from power and fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday, The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin hailed this "Jasmine Revolution" as a "remarkable event: a popular, secular revolt in a Muslim country"
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What makes Ms. Rubin assume this is going to *stay* "secular"? Opposition to the Shah in Iran was widespread—including many secular and "moderate" (in the Islamic sense, at least) components. But it was Islam that carried the day.

More:

A factory worker in Carthage had similar high hopes: "This is like the French Revolution," he said enthusiastically. "It's the end of an era. I'm hoping there is real change. We can't continue like this." Political analyst Ahmed Lashin declared: "The Arabs have been repressed for too long. They are eager for change and are on the verge of explosion."

But what kind of change? What kind of Reign of Terror might come in the wake of this new French Revolution?
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Notice this Tunisian factory worker did not cite the *American Revolution*—a comparatively civilized affair, which did not explode into savage insanity and revenge once the British were ousted.

There was indeed a bloody "Reign of Terror" in the wake of the Iranian "Islamic" Revolution, and, as the events of the last two years show, it is not over yet.

I'm afraid I agree more with the opinions of Slamdunk and Jaladhi here, Buraq. After all, Iran has neither mellowed nor collapsed in over thirty years, and is now threatening the world with nukes.

And if there was a full collapse of governments across the Magreb, then there is always the baleful example of Somalia, which has festered without anything resembling a real government for over twenty years.

You wrote:

A total breakdown in electricity and water supply, no food, no services of any kind, and so on, would result in a line of imams hanging from lamposts.

Islamic dictatorships....? Bring 'em on. They're doomed.
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Unfortunately, Buraq, I believe—if you have a Somali-style Islamic hell-hole—the only reason you would have "Imams hanging from lampposts" would be if the rival Jihad factions had declared them "insufficiently Islamic" and killed them in the name of Islamic "purity".

... of course knowing nothing about the history and the culture of the country.

Good point, Mazz.

Know why they call U.S. Marines Leathernecks? Back at the turn of the 19th century, the Jihadis built a fleet of attack boats called corvettes and proceeded to raid Infidel merchant ships at will, and with success. At one point, the cost of ransom payoffs made by America to Moslem Activist strongmen (Jizya) reached nearly 50% of the federal budget.

So, President Thomas Jeffeson bought a copY of the sacred Ko-Ran, and proceeded to send the nascent U.S. Navy to the Mediterranean to straighten the Moslems out.

Admiral Perry, the father of the U.S. Navy, soon found his Marines being decapitated. So he arranged for them to wear thick leather neck braces to help avoid his mean losing their heads. Trouble was, broken necks remained a common for his Marines.

So, Perry then arranged for more firearms and even artillery to solve the problem, which it eventually did. That's whey the line The Shores of Tripoli in the Marine Song. Yeah, I know, Tripoli is in Libya, but there were major battles in Tunisia too.

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That copy of the Ko-Ran that Jefferson bought? It was used by the born Afro-American revert Representative Keith Ellison, D-MN, for his swearing in (he rejected using a Bible). Oh, the irony.

But that's what American Dhimmitude is all about: willful ignorance.

Islam rushing in where secular angels would fear to tread would result in a few years of Boko Haram/Al Shabaab 7th century viciousness, then the game would be up for Islam. 
A total breakdown in electricity and water supply, no food, no services of any kind, and so on, would result in a line of imams hanging from lamposts.
Islamic dictatorships....? Bring 'em on. They're doomed.

Like SOMALIA, the "pirates haven" of the Indian Ocean. This could be the new "industrial" revolution for Dar-al-Islam, a PIRACY Network from Mali to Indonesia, for glorious 'Allah' and the myth of its Moon-god 'prophet' of 7th century pagan Arabia.

This is the legacy of primitive Islam, that food, water, infrastructure, electricity and roads, medical and social services, all disappear... for inshallah "Allah provides". Indeed, all natural life is snuffed out, like in Taliban held areas, no music, no art, no education, no joys of life except the five-times-deep-groveling to the Moon-rock at Mecca. The game is up, with war and more war, mass civilian killings, machete wielding genocide, mass rape of women, mass murder... mass Islam. Jihad Tunisia? Like Somalia? "They're doomed".

"Two women of my family and friends were on a vacation to Tunisia together some years ago. And they agreed afterwards: never again."

Why would anyone go to Tunisia?

"Tunisia does not have an Ayatullah-in-waiting to takeover."

Actually there's a guy called Rachid Ghannouchi, now in exile in... London LOL, who said he'll return home now. Don't know if he's the next Khomeini though.

Those Swiss bank accounts Wiki is exposing will have their names and Arafat's.

But Chaka Khan sang it:

A long time ago in the 600's
Mohammad gave us this wrong
He called it "A call to Islam"
And the jihad still lingers on

It was new and very strange
Blew the heads off Jews and Christians
Few could go along
But the jihad still lingers on

Rape and thievery to name just two
Together they grew
The idea was young and strong
And the jihad still lingers on

They paved the way for generations
From Mohammad to Imam Rauf
No one could stop the winds of change
Without them where'd jihad be?

Valette and Sulieman were there before
The past you can't ignore
The torch is lit, we'll keep the flame
And the jihad remains the same

In the 600's
A night in tunisia
In the 1000's
A night in tunisia
In the 1500's
A night in tunisia
In the 2000's
A night in tunisia

Here's the melody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSP72EjOjFI

My apologies to Miss Chaka.

may be that was a code : Night = Darkness = Islam?

Interestingly, Dizzy had become a Baha'i in 1970, so probably knew what Islam was all about.

And The Malady Still Lingers On...

Thanks for the link. Ghannouchi is a canny politician and is a leader of the Islamic party Ennahda (Hizb Nahda), which is much like Turkey's AKP, but he is not a religious leader like Khomeini or al-Sadr in Iraq. He is holding a political Ace in his hands, but is not yet ready to jump into the fray till the dust settles down. As he says in his recent FT interview - "However I have no political aspirations myself, neither for standing as a minister, for parliament or president. Some are presenting me as a Khomeini who will return to Tunisia – I am no Khomeini".

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24d710a6-22ee-11e0-ad0b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1BS42TlmW

That was good, SD. ; )