Op-ed: Tunisia’s Ennahda movement renounces political Islam

<p>Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, the most successful Islamist party to emerge from the Arab Spring revolts early in this decade, has renounced political Islam and declared it will operate in the country’s politics as “Muslim democrats.”</p><p>A party congress over the weekend in the beach resort of Hammamet voted almost unanimously to drop Ennahda’s traditional religious work and participate in Tunisian politics as a regular political party.</p><div id="attachment_483271" class="wp-caption module image alignleft"><p class="wp-media-credit"><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Rached Ghannouchi, 74, an Islamist activist who developed into an influential Muslim thinker during his 22 years of exile from Tunisia’s earlier dictatorships.&nbsp;</span></p>
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