Moussi accuses Qatar of funding suspicious associations in Tunisia
The head of the Free Destourian Party in Tunisia, Abir Moussi, expressed her alarm at the continuation of what she described as the Brotherhood danger in Tunisia, and the Qatari support for a number of suspicious societies.
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Moussi said in an interview on the private channel Attessia yesterday that she has sound and visual evidence of the involvement of known names with “an octopus organ”, which she described as suspicious.
Moussi said she is working to cleanse the political atmosphere of an octopus organ that brings together the Brotherhood on the one hand, Islamic thinker Hmida Ennaifer on the other, and modernists “who want to restore a new consensus with the Brotherhood”.
Abir Moussi accused Hmida Ennaifer of seeking to open the Tunisian field in front of the Iranian extension, without clarifying the way of doing so, saying that she wrote the Prime Minister regarding all these facts and did not receive a response
These accusations come amid the efforts of Abir Moussi and her party to demand the closure of the branch of the International Union of Muslim Scholars because of what they see as the spread of extremist and obscurantist thought.
Last week, the party organized a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the International Union of Muslim Scholars in the center of the capital, demanding its closure. Meanwhile, security forces units were stationed in front of the union headquarters after the latter issued a call to the country’s authorities to protect its office.
Abir Moussi accused the security forces, behind them President Kais Saied, of providing security and political enthusiasm to the union, which she described as extremist.
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“This is not an institution or a development organization, and the sit-in will not disrupt its work. It is rather a den of extremist thought whose aim is to strike at Tunisian sovereignty”, she said, stressing that she will continue to oppose it until it is closed.
On Sunday, the International Muslim Scholar called on the Tunisian authorities to protect his office, after the President of the Free Destourian Party announced the return of a sit-in in front of his headquarters to pressure the authorities to close it.
The Free Destourian Party, an extension of the dissolved Destourian Democratic Rally, which dominated authority in Tunisia for 23 years under the leadership of the late Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted by the January 2011 revolution, carried out its first open sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Union of Muslim Scholars in November 2020, to return again in March 2021.
Last year, the Tunisian judiciary rejected a lawsuit filed by the party to stop the union’s activities in the country.
However, Abir Moussi does not criticize the Union of Muslim Scholars, but demands to decide on the funding of a number of associations, pointing out that they are a front for the financing of the Islamic Ennahdha Movement.
The Department of Audit had published a report on the involvement of Ennahdha, the Tunisian Heart Party, and the Tunisian Bread List in foreign funding, amid calls to dissolve these parties in the event that it was proven that they were involved in taking money from abroad during the last election campaign.
