The Economist recently published an article entitled Now is the time on the subject of Tunisia. In that article, they mentioned Rashid Al-Ghannushi, the leader of ?izb al-Nah?ah, the Tunisian Renaissance Party.
Al-Ghannushi is a well-known Islamic intellectual, so it was somewhat surprising to see The Economist portray him as a fundamentalist; but more outrageously, the article claimed (incorrectly) that Al-Ghannushi threatened to hang a prominent Tunisian feminist!
When they were notified of this horrendous error, the editors of The Economist had the decency to issue a public apology, saying: [loonwatch.com] Read more
