Rashid al-Ghannushi
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.Collection: Religion
Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.Collection: Equality
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.Collection: Medicine
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.Collection: Believe
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.Collection: Long
I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.Collection: Country
The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.Collection: Needs
What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.Collection: Real
I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Believe
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.Collection: Egypt
Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Military
I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.Collection: People