It is good that Rached Khiari is being investigated, but it also should be noted (although it only will be here) that many, many other Muslims in Tunisia and all over the world agree with him.
“Tunisian MP probed for allegedly glorifying beheading of French teacher,” DW, October 18, 2020:
Tunisia has launched an investigation against an MP for allegedly glorifying the murder of a teacher in Paris who was decapitated in a brutal Islamist terror attack this week.
The Public Prosecutors Office in Tunis said the independent MP Rached Khiari’s remarks on social media and his position in parliament would be examined, the state news agency Tap reported on Saturday.
The 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday afternoon in a town northwest of the French capital after recently holding a class on freedom of speech in which he showed caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
Islamic tradition forbids any images depicting the religion’s prophets.
Chiari took to Facebook in defense of the beheading, saying: “To insult the messenger of God” is “the greatest crime,” and whoever committed it had to “bear its consequences.”
Defiant after probe announcedIn another post following the announcement of the investigation, Chiari he said could renounce his immunity to prosecution and his position in parliament, “but I will not renounce my conviction for the crime.”
The prophet is “more important and greater than fame, parliament, politics and the whole world,” he added….