Rashid al-Ghannushi
Rashid al-Ghannushi
Rached Ghannouchi, also spelled Rachid al-Ghannouchi or Rached el-Ghannouchi, is a Tunisian politician, co-founder of the Ennahda Movement and serving as its "intellectual leader". He was born Rashad Khriji...
NationalityTunisian
ProfessionPolitician
CountryTunisia
religion respecting
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
continue models source
Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.
age information
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.
real democracy needs
What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.
believe mean democracy
There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.
husband divorce law
Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.
believe should-have rights
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.
long tunisia problem
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
believe views doubt
There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.
dream country peaceful
I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.
needs dictatorship
The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.
medicine lasts revolution
Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.
country spring believe
I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.
military believe struggle
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.