Tunisian Elections and the Road to the Caliphate  Pages: 1 2
Tunisia, where the 2011 Arab uprisings began, remains an ominous
model for where these uprisings will end.  The nation’s first
round of elections are in, and, as expected, the Islamist party,
al-Nahda, won by a landslide, gaining over 40% of the seats in
the national constituent assembly.  As usual, the mainstream
media, interpreting events exclusively through a Western
paradigm, portrayed this largely as a positive development.
Thus, a Washington Post editorial, “Tunisia again points the way
for Arab democracy,” asserts how “the country’s leading Islamic
party claimed victory—and that, too, could prove a positive
example.”  Other reports, perfunctorily prefixing the word
“moderate” to “Islamist”—an oxymoron to common sense, an
orthodoxy to the MSM—gush and hail “democracy.”  Such sunny
depictions are not mere products of Western projection but
augmented by conniving Islamists who spoon-feed the world what
it wants to hear.  Thus, an MSNBC report,