AMMAN —
Islamic Action Front member and former
lawmaker Dima Tahboub said that the party seeks to alter its perceived image as
an opposition party, readying itself for a conducive opportunity to assume
power.
اضافة اعلان
Speaking on
Wednesday at the conference ‘Islamists, a decade since the
Arab Spring’ Tahboub
said that “one way to do so (assume power) is to find solutions to women’s
issues according to western discourse, and to define the relationship with the
“Zionist entity” and continue to reject it” as well as to draw out plans to
address poverty, unemployment, and international conventions.
“It is no longer
sufficient to raise the slogan ‘Islam is the solution’”, she said, adding that
“the opposition philosophy has stuck with Islamic movements, because those
movements have always practiced opposition rather than power.” She further
questioned if Islamists have actually practiced authority, or “was a year’s
experience in Egypt only good to extinguish the fire!”
Tahboub said she
does not have an issue with running for the party’s secretary general position,
and that she might win or lose. She said that the change within the party
towards women has been “reconciliatory” and was based on internal revisions,
and not because the party sought to improve its image to the world.
“We do not seek
to please anybody by engaging women in the party, or for others to be accepting
of women,” she said, adding that the party’s achievements towards women are
exemplary.
Tahboub rejected the
term ‘political Islam, saying “Islam is holistic; political, economic, and
social, “and not only a prayer rug.”
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