Tunisia: Attack on US Embassy Was an Assault on Democracy

Tunisia has been viewed by the West as the Arab Spring’s major success story because of its relatively peaceful democratic transition and election of a moderate Islamist government. However, the September 14 attack on the U.S. embassy and an American school demonstrate the challenges facing the country from a small dedicated group of radical Islamists who reject democracy and the West and are determined to turn the country into a strict Islamist state.

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