Tunisian Islamist Causes Outcry With Talk of a Caliphate
15th November 2011
Tunisia’s secularists said their fears about an Islamist takeover were being realized on Tuesday after a senior official in the moderate Islamist party which won last month’s election invoked the revival of a caliphate, or Islamic state. Footage posted on the Internet showed Hamadi Jbeli, the secretary-general of the Ennahda party, telling supporters that “We are in the sixth caliphate, God willing.”
No doubt the outcry was ‘Allahu Akbar!’