Tunisian opposition figure and President of the Free Destourian Party (PDL) Abir Moussi has announced her bloc\u2019s decision to submit of a new draft resolution designating the Muslim Brotherhood, as a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking during a news conference, Moussi said the draft resolution demands the government to formally \u201cclassify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization that is hostile to the civil state\u201d.<\/p>\n
The draft resolution also calls the state to \u201cconsider any person or entity that has connections to this organization in Tunisia as being guilty of a terrorism-related crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we want a clear political position,\u201d Moussi said. \u201cPolitical parties and politicians who want to openly dissociate themselves from the Muslim Brotherhood organization must prove so and vote in favor of this draft motion.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome political entities and civil society groups in Tunisia have leaders and members who belong to the Muslim Brotherhood and receive funding from the organization,\u201d she added, stressing that such a situation is \u201cinconceivable\u201d as it is a \u201cthreat to national sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Muslim Brotherhood is considered a \u201cterrorist organization\u201d in a number of Arab countries as well as European countries and the United States.<\/p>\n
Recently, the PDL and other opposition blocs have been raising the stakes in their confrontation with the Ennahda Islamist Movement over its leader Rachid Ghannouchi\u2019s meddling with the country\u2019s foreign policy agenda and his close ties with Islamists in Turkey and Qatar.<\/p>\n
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Tunisian opposition figure and President of the Free Destourian Party (PDL) Abir Moussi has announced her bloc\u2019s decision to submit of a new draft resolution designating the Muslim Brotherhood, as a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d Speaking during a news conference, Moussi said the draft resolution demands the government to formally \u201cclassify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":203040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7863],"tags":[2484,9400,67082,67084],"class_list":["post-203039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-section","tag-egypt","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-pdl","tag-terrorist-organization"],"yoast_head":"\n