This probably wouldn't go over big with the radicals, but it is a step in the right direectioin.
Tunisia's Ennahda ‘to separate politics from religion’
© Fethi Belaid / AFP | Ennahdha party leader Rached Ghannouchi arrives for a session at the Assembly of People's Representatives in Tunis on February 16, 2016.
Text by FRANCE 24
Latest update : 2016-05-20
Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party will separate it religious activities from political ones, its chief said in statements published Thursday, declaring there was “no longer justification for political Islam” in the country post Arab spring.
Rached Ghannouchi, an intellectual who once advocated a strict application of Islamic sharia law, made the comments to France’s Le Monde newspaper ahead of a weekend congress to formalise the change.
"Tunisia is now a democracy. The 2014 constitution has imposed limits on extreme secularism and extreme religion," he was quoted as saying.
"We want religious activity to be completely independent from political activity.
"This is good for politicians because they would no longer be accused of manipulating religion for political means and good for religion because it would not be held hostage to politics," said Ghannouchi.
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Tunisia's Ennahda ‘to separate politics from religion’
© Fethi Belaid / AFP | Ennahdha party leader Rached Ghannouchi arrives for a session at the Assembly of People's Representatives in Tunis on February 16, 2016.
Text by FRANCE 24
Latest update : 2016-05-20
Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party will separate it religious activities from political ones, its chief said in statements published Thursday, declaring there was “no longer justification for political Islam” in the country post Arab spring.
Rached Ghannouchi, an intellectual who once advocated a strict application of Islamic sharia law, made the comments to France’s Le Monde newspaper ahead of a weekend congress to formalise the change.
"Tunisia is now a democracy. The 2014 constitution has imposed limits on extreme secularism and extreme religion," he was quoted as saying.
"We want religious activity to be completely independent from political activity.
"This is good for politicians because they would no longer be accused of manipulating religion for political means and good for religion because it would not be held hostage to politics," said Ghannouchi.
Continue reading at:
Tunisia's Ennahda ‘to separate politics from religion’ - France 24?
