From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy — Rached Ghannouchi (Foreign Affairs, 2016)

Ennahda has moved beyond its origins as an Islamist party and has fully embraced a new identity as a party of Muslim democrats. It has ended all of its cultural and religious activities and now focuses only on politics. Tunisia's new constitution, ratified in 2014, enshrines democracy and protects political and religious freedoms, so the party no longer accepts the label of "Islamism." In this new democratic stage, the question is no longer one of secularism versus religion.
Our objective is to separate the political and religious fields. No political party should claim to represent religion; the religious sphere should be managed by independent and neutral institutions. Religion should be nonpartisan. Imams should not hold positions in any political party.
Under the new constitution, all Tunisians enjoy the same rights, whether they are believers, agnostics, or atheists. Ennahda has called for a participatory approach to reforms based on a vision of "compassionate capitalism" that balances the freedom of enterprise with social justice and equal opportunity. Ennahda supports mandating equal gender representation on all party lists and stronger maternity-leave rights.