TUNIS, Jan 30 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people gathered at Tunisia's main international airport on Sunday to welcome Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi who is returning home after 22 years in exile.
Supporters of Ghannouchi's Ennahda movement, which had been banned for two decades, crowded into the arrivals area of the airport and held up banners reading: "No to extremism, yes to moderate Islam!" and "No fear of Islam!"
A group of about a dozen secularists were holding up banners reading: "No Islamism, no theocracy, no Sharia and no stupidity!" (Reporting by Lin Noueihed; Writing by Christian Lowe)
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