Arab liberals and Bin Ali

You have to see the extent to which this Arab liberal (former radical leftist) Al-`Afif Al-Akhdar (read the lousy book about him by lousy Wahhabi Arab liberal, Shakir Nabulsi) has been praising Bin Ali over the years and hailing his government as a model of secular Arab governance.  (By the way, unlike all other Arab liberals, I would not classify Al-Akhdar as a "Wahhabi liberal" because he has been quite critical of Saudi Arabia and Wahhabi fanaticism and for that he was banned from Al-Hayat and from all other Saudi media).