After Rachid Ghannouchi’s Ennahda Party won Tunisia’s recent elections the MSM fawned over him as a “moderate” Islamist, but the fact is he a dangerous radical who as recently as May said he hoped the “Arab Spring” would lead to “the extinction of Israel.”
(IPT) — A radical Tunisian Islamist leader, denied an entry visa into the United States during the 1990s, is scheduled to make two appearances on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, will attend a forum on the Arab Spring at the Cannon Office Building, an announcement from the event’s sponsor, the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s (MPAC) said. He’ll also attend a special dinner Tuesday evening.
Ghannouchi’s Ennahda Party recently won the majority in the first free parliamentary elections since the ouster of Tunisia’s longtime ruler, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Though hailed as a pro-democratic and moderate party by several media outlets and political figures, Ennahda, and its leader, have provided ample evidence to the contrary.
In a May interview with the Al Arab Qatari website, for example, Ghannouchi called for the destruction of Israel and expressed optimism that the Jewish state would disappear in the very near future.
The Arab Spring “will achieve positive results on the path to the Palestinian cause and threaten the extinction of Israel,” Ghannouchi said. “I give you the good news that the Arab region will get rid of the bacillus of Israel. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the leader of Hamas, said that Israel will disappear by the year 2027. I say that this date may be too far away, and Israel may disappear before this.”