Obama 'Admin' guest Rachid Ghannouchi Thanked For Helping Hamas and Fatah To Reconcile

Obama 'Admin' guest Rachid Ghannouchi Thanked For Helping Hamas and Fatah To Reconcile.HT: TGMBR

A top Hamas leader and the Palestinian ambassador to Tunisia have thanked Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Muslim Brotherhood-linked party, Ennadha, for his role in brokering last week's reconciliation deal between Fatah and the terrorist group.
Ghannouchi has been the most prominent Islamist leader in Tunisia for over 30 years and was banned from entering the U.S. during the 1990s because of his support for Palestinian terrorism.
The Obama administration lifted the ban in 2011 following the Arab Spring even though he never renounced his support for terrorism. He met with top State Department officials in Washington last year and during his most recent visit in February.

Rachid Ghannouchi (many spelling variations) is the head of the Tunisian Ennahda Party, essentially the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia. Mr. Ghannouchi has been a member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) and is currently and Assistant Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), both organizations led by Global Muslim Brotherhood Youssef Qaradawi. 

In2009, an Egyptian news report referred to Ghannouchi as a leader of the MB “abroad.” Ghannouchi is also one of the founding members of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi organization closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and dedicated to the propagation of “Wahabist” Islam throughout the world. 

Ghannouchi is known for his thinking on the issue of Islam and citizenship rights. In January 2011, Ghannouchi returned to Tunisia after a long exile in the U.K and two weeks after the Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben was forced from power in the events which triggered the “Arab Spring.”

Mr. Ghannouchi gave a 2011 Arabic-language interview in which he predicts the end of Israel, a viewpoint which is not surpassing given that he has had a long history of ties to Palestinian extremism and calls for terrorism. 

From 1988-92, the Islamic Committee for Palestine organized conferences and rallies in the United States that featured the leading figures from Islamic extremist movements throughout the world. One example of such a conference took place in Chicago from December 22-25, 1989 and featured Mr. Gahannouchi as a speaker.  Its theme was “Palestine, Intifada, and Horizons of Islamic Renaissance” and other speakers included Abd Al-’Aziz Al’Awda, the “spiritual leader” of Islamic Jihad and Muhammad ‘Umar of Hizb Al-Tahrir, the Islamic Liberation Party.

For more on the extremist background of Rachid Ghannouchi, go here.Hmmmm......"I will stand with my Muslim Brothers'