{"id":4426,"date":"2011-10-24T04:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2011-10-24T04:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T04:41:22","slug":"after-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4426","title":{"rendered":"After you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ By <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; democracy, Tunis, Islamism, Ghannouchi ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ghannouchi.jpg\" title=\"ghannouchi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ghannouchi.jpg\" alt=\"ghannouchi.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/oct\/23\/tunisians-flock-to-vote-free-elections\">Tunisians flock to voting stations for first taste of democracy in 50 years<\/a>, Tunis,\u00a023 October 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When An-Nahda&#8217;s leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, who recently returned from 22 years exile in London, arrived at his polling station to vote, followed by camera crews, he walked straight to the entrance. But he was jeered by crowds, who said: &#8220;The queue, the queue! Democracy starts there!&#8221; He swiftly took his place at the back, adding: &#8220;The people have a hunger for democracy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Book:\u00a0 <strong>Azzam S. Tamimi<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rachid-Ghannouchi-Democrat-Islamism-Religion\/dp\/0195140001\/\">Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism<\/a>, OUP (2001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ By Charles Cameron &#8212; democracy, Tunis, Islamism, Ghannouchi ] . From The Guardian,\u00a0Tunisians flock to voting stations for first taste of democracy in 50 years, Tunis,\u00a023 October 2011. When An-Nahda&#8217;s leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, who recently returned from 22 years exile in London, arrived at his polling station to vote, followed by camera crews, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674,228,133,526,476,78,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-biography","category-book","category-charles-cameron","category-democracy","category-ideas","category-islamist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}