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| Conservative Muslims clash with secularists in Tunisia |
| 2011-07-01 |
| [Al Jazeera] Tunisian police have placed in durance vile Islamist activists after they clashed with a group of lawyers outside the capital's main courthouse, as tensions rise over the country's post-revolutionary future. They were demanding the release of their comrades, placed in durance vile during protests over a film some said offended Islam. Six members of the Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... movement were placed in durance vile after they stormed a cinema and broke its glass doors in a bid to stop the screening of the film: "Neither Allah, nor Master" on secularism in Tunisia. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Perhaps being Islamist isn't going to end in the establishment of a local branch of the Caliphate in Tunisia after all... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-01 09:49 |