I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

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• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictators

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who d

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in a

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that j

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the re

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and t

• Rashid al-Ghannushi:

  We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition