Late last year, largely unnoticed in the west, Tunisia‘s president, Moncef Marzouki, gave an interview to Chatham House‘s The World Today. Commenting on a recent attack by Salafists – ultra-conservative Sunnis – on the US embassy in Tunis, he remarked in an unguarded moment: „We didn‘t realise how dangerous and violent these Salafists could be … They are a tiny minority within a tiny minority. They don‘t represent society or the state.“