I am not making this up: a propagandist for Saudi princes lectures the new Tunisian president on true democracy

This must enter into a script for the theater of the absurd.  `Abdur-Rahman Ar-Rahsid (columnist for the mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, and director of the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law, Al-Arabiyyah) lectures and instructs the new Tunisian president on the true rules and features of democracy.  Kid you not.  I think that Saudi propagandists don't think that a democracy is a democracy unless they see heads rolling in public squares and limbs being chopped off.  Beheadings in public squares are the primary element of democracy for them.