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… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
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… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful,… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
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… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
