Tunisia remains under attack from extremists who cannot bear to see a country succeed in rebuilding its inclusive institutions. The country came through the trauma of revolution relatively calmly, exemplified by the way the religiously inclined Al Nahda government stepped down in 2104, in the face of a wave of violence, to voluntarily allow an interim government to take over and draft a new constitution. Tunisia’s various political entities have succeeded in putting the continuity of their nation above narrow party interests.
This is why the terrorists of Daesh (the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) attacked the country yet again, as a suicide bomber killed 13 people earlier this week. This incident occurred several months after June when a gunman attacked a beach resort, killing 38 people, and after March when a group of gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum in Tunis, killing more than 20 people. Daesh does not have a declared group in Tunisia, but it is clearly interested in fomenting violence and mayhem. As the Tunisian government has declared a state of emergency and struggles to deal with the latest outrage, it needs all the support and help it can get.
