Kvinden Tawakkul Karman er en af lederne i demonstrationerne mod regeringen i Libyen. Hun deler Nobels Fredspris 2011 med to andre kvinder. Komiteen bag prisen lovede ellers, at de dette år ikke ville vælge nogen kontroversielle vindere. Hvis man som komiteens formand Thorbjoern Jagland mener, at Det Muslimske Broderskab er vigtigt for frihedskampen, er dette løfte ubrudt…:

Nobel Peace Prize goes to women’s rights activists

“Karman, 32, is a member of a political party linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement sometimes viewed with suspicion in the West. Jagland, however, called the Brotherhood “an important part” of the Arab Spring.”