re: #24 ProTARDISLiberal

Not surprised. Tunisia though won’t have any of it. I am worried about violence, but I don’t think this will be as threatening to the stability as the MB in Libya.

And this actually is in some ways good news. Tunisia is right now MB-ruled. So essentially, you have one group of radicals threatening the other, and its mutual. It’s good thing to see the radicals attacking each other, weakening each other. It allows more liberal groups to strengthen.

Combined with the Libyan Crackdown on Militias today in Tripoli and Benghazi, which will expand country-wide over the next weeks and months, and this song will describe my thoughts on this.

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Tunisia’s governing party is aligned with the MB, but is somewhat more moderate than the majority of the Brotherhood. That’s part of why the Salafists hate them, seeing them as the Islamist equivalent of RINOs .

Tunisia has also got a active Islamist terror force with it’s borders, hiding near Kasserine Pass (yes, the same Kasserine Pass where Rommel beat up on the US II Corps in 1943). That plus the recent MB blockades of government offices in Libya have likely convinced the Tunisian government that it needs to take a hard line against the Salafists. They are correct in that conclusion.