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Tunisian Universities Under Islamist Siege
Gatestone Institute 9 May 2012
By Anna Mahjar-Barducci
Tunisian Universities are being threatened by Salafist activists. Since late November 2011, the Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Manouba, north of Tunis, has 
France freezes assets of Tunisian Imam
Pakistan Observer 8 May 2012
Paris—The French finance ministry froze the assets of a radical imam from Tunisia who is underthe threat of expulsion for anti-Semitism, an official announcement said. Mohammed Hammami, 76,
Religion: 62.5% of Tunisians are practicing Muslims
ANSAmed 8 May 2012
TUNIS, Some 62.5% of Tunisians are practicing Muslims who pray five times a day, as prescribed by Islam, according to an opinion poll carried out for the Arab-language newspaper
Tunisian TV chief fined for airing 'Persepolis'
France 24 4 May 2012
A Tunisian court on Thursday slapped a small fine on the owner of the private Nessma television station for undermining morality and public order by screening the film "Persepolis," which
Video: Controversial Islamic Scholar Youssef El-Qaradawi to Visit Tunisia
Tunisia Live 18 April 2012
By Samia Fitouri
Qaradawi draws controversy, saying "Europe is miserable with materialism, with the philosophy of promiscuity” and that "Europe will find no lifesaver or lifeboat other than Islam.”
Tunisia: Muslims Threaten Church, Cover Its Cross with Garbage Bags
FrontPage Magazine 10 April 2012
By Raymond Ibrahim
According to Al Quds, last Tuesday it was revealed that the Christian Orthodox Church in Tunis, one of very few churches in the country of Tunisia, is being "abused” and receiving
Swing Low Sweet Sharia
New English Review 9 April 2012
By Nidra Poller
In October 2011 an extraordinary opportunity to apprehend the ill-defined "Middle East” conflict was offered in the form of a play within the play. Discourse was disabled by flesh and blood images acting out the drama with exquisite unity and perfect casting. Playing the role of Israel, Gilad Shalit, courageous survivor of five years of unspeakable deprivation, emerged frail, pale but gloriously resistant. The little that we know of the conditions of his imprisonment is already too much.
Tunisia's Governing Islamists Admit Talks with Salafis
Israel National News 3 April 2012
By Elad Benari
The head of Tunisia's governing Islamist party revealed on Monday that he was in talks with Salafi Islamists to keep pursuing their agenda via legal means, despite their being unhappy with the fact
Tunisia: crossroads of fanatical preachers and jihadists
ANSAmed 30 March 2012
TUNIS - For more than twenty years the gates of secular Tunisia defended by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali were shut to those who wanted to make a banner of Islam. But the fall of the dictator
Tunisia: crossroads of fanatical preachers and jihadists
ANSAmed 29 March 2012
TUNIS - For more than twenty years the gates of secular Tunisia defended by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali were shut to those who wanted to make a banner of Islam. But the fall of the dictator
Islam's defining moment with democracy
Christian Science Monitor 28 March 2012
Muslims living in democracies of the West and Asia already know their practice of Islam can best flourish where religious freedom is protected and women’s rights are honored. Now two Muslim countries
Tunisia rally: "Fight the Jews, enter Paradise"
Elder of Ziyon 27 March 2012
Tunisian youth should "train" to "Fight the Jews" and enter "paradise". This call came during a demonstration in downtown Tunis called for by Islamists who want Islamic Sharia to be "the
Tunisian Islamists step up demand for Islamic state
Chicago Tribune 26 March 2012
By Tarek Amara
TUNIS - Thousands of Tunisian Islamists took to the streets on Sunday to step up their demands for the creation of an Islamic state in one of the most secular Arab nations. About 8,000
The True Perpetrators of The Antisemitic Attacks in Toulouse and Throughout the World
Israel Insider 24 March 2012
By Barry Rubin
What a tragic, evil joke. A drive-by shooter in the beautiful, almost magical, city of Toulouse, France, murders three Jewish children and a teacher in front of their school. Various VIPs issue statements about how terrible is this deed, how unspeakable.
The unfinished revolution of Tunisia's women
FRANCE 24 8 March 2012
By Sarah LEDUC
To commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8, Amel Ben Attia says she will trade her customary jeans and sneakers for the colourful flowing traditional Tunisian robe still worn by peasant
No One is Safe under Islamist Regimes -- not even Muslims
American Thinker 27 February 2012
By Neil Snyder
President Obama, leaders in his administration, and most Democrats in Congress would have us believe that the Arab Spring is good for Arabs in the Middle East and for the rest of the world because it is a prelude to democracy. They fail to recognize these simple facts:
* A sizeable minority of Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa are Islamists.
Security forces clash with radical Islamists in Tunisian town
Al Arabiya News 24 February 2012
Police in a Tunisian town used tear gas on Thursday to break up a crowd of about 200 hardline Islamists, armed with sticks, swords and petrol bombs, who set fire to a police station, witnesses told
Tunisia: Nation Recognizes Controversial Islamist Organization
allAfrica.com 23 February 2012
By Asma Ghribi
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, a civil society organization striving for the implementation of sharia in Tunisian society, changed its name to the Moderate
How Islamists hijacked the Arab Spring
ABC Sydney 20 February 2012
By John Bradley
British author and former foreign correspondent John Bradley warns that the Arab Spring has been hijacked by dangerous extremists. Eleanor Hall: The World Today
Controversial Cleric, Advocate of Female Genital Mutilation, Challenges Tunisian Critics
Tunisia Live 16 February 2012
By Charles Baeder
Wajdi Ghoneim, the fiery Egpytain cleric notorious for his controversial stances on a number of social and political issues, issued a challenge – via Facebook – against his "secular and liberal”
