Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
Calling the FIS party hardline Islamists is actually really misguided, they have more in common with the Tunisian al-Nahda party or with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt than with the Islamic Jihad movement or the old Mujahideen-ê Ghalq in Iran.

So when you look at the kind of line the government has been utilising, of course they pander to the predominantly Muslim population, in fact, they're probably willing to call any law they pass as being consistent with Shari'a, which is actually a popular trend that has existed in the Islamic world for more than a hundred years now. Does this mean it's actually taken from the Qur'an? Not at all. You're confusing rhetoric and practice here.
I am calling GIA and GSPC hardline islamists. FIS is more or less part of the establishment. Still very much an islamist movement.