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Tunisia arrests Islamic jihadists after premature detonation

Apr 7, 2014 9:40 am By Robert Spencer

Supporters of Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clash with riot police at Hai al Tadamon in Tunis“Ansar al-Sharia, listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, was one of the most hardline movements calling for an Islamic state to emerge since Tunisia’s 2011 uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.” So once again we see that those who want to establish an Islamic state think that violence is a useful means to get what they want. This simple and obvious fact, however, is routinely and strenuously denied by “experts” in the West.

“Tunisia arrests Islamist militants after bomb mishap,” from Al Arabiya, April 7 (thanks to Twostellas):

A group of Islamist militants have been arrested by Tunisian police after they accidentally exploded a bomb they were manufacturing as part of a planned attack on the country’s commercial city of Sfax, Reuters reported the government as saying on Sunday.

The eight suspected members, who belonged to the militant group of Ansar al-Sharia, were arrested as part of a raid in Sfax, a Mediterranean port city around 170 miles (270 km) southeast of the capital Tunis, the interior ministry said late Saturday, Al Arabiya reported.

Two of those arrested were wounded in the bomb blast while handling the explosive, the ministry said in a statement.

Ansar al-Sharia, listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, was one of the most hardline movements calling for an Islamic state to emerge since Tunisia’s 2011 uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

With an economy heavily reliant on foreign tourism, Tunisia has been cracking down on Islamist militants that it views as a key challenge on its path to full democracy.

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama praised Tunisia as the poster child of the Arab Spring as he unveiled $500 million in new assistance to help revive the North Africa nation’s faltering economy.

One of the Arab world’s most secular states, Tunisia has adopted a new constitution and a caretaker government has taken over as a way to ease tensions between a leading Islamist party and secular opponents until elections due later this year.

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  1. duh_swami says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 10:23 am

    It’s very generous for Rasool Obama to give another Islamic country taxpayers money to help them with a struggling economy. If we can save the Tunisian population the horrors of food stamps and welfare, we have done a good deed.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 11:10 am

    Western politicians ASSUME they ‘know’ Islam is democratic, whereas the reverse is true.

    Sharia says that if a ‘ruler’ (i.e. dictator) is ‘unjust’, then he may be replaced in a coup d’état. Indeed, Muslims have a duty to overthrow a dictator if he does not enforce ‘God’s laws’. Top-down government is Islamic. Democracy by the people, for the people isn’t Islamic.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 7, 2014 at 11:13 am

      The only way for Muslims to ‘vote’ is to mount an insurrection and install a new dictator who will inevitably become as hated as the previous, yet they will not be able to remove him unless he fails to enforce Sharia.

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