What does ‘moderate Islamist’ mean?
By AYMENN JAWAD AL-TAMIMI
11/16/2011 22:57
Tunisia’s elections have renewed the fictitious talk about the true nature of Islamism.
In the run-up to the Tunisian Constituent Assembly elections and the aftermath that saw a plurality of seats won by the al-Nahda (Renaissance) party, you may have noticed frequent references in the media to this political organization as a “moderate Islamist” party. This is of course not the first time such terms have been used to denote Islamist political factions: recall, for example, how the ruling AKP party in Turkey is often called “mildly Islamist” (to borrow The Economist’s phrasing).
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