“Pundits and politicians are already ringing the alarm bells. The common refrain you hear in the US: The Middle East is being overrun with religious radicals bent on oppressing women and destroying Israel. That is nonsense, of course.” — Reza Aslan Of course! “Zionist Entity to Be Sued over Abu Jihad Assassination,” from Al-Manar, November […]
Tunisia: Imam calls for jihad, says nation’s leaders “have mistaken the US for God as they establish the laws and write the Constitution”
In other words, he wants Sharia and only Sharia, and is envisioning Islamic supremacists killing and being killed (cf. Qur’an 9:111) in order to get it. “Tunisia: Imam calls jihad, Salafites to prepare shrouds,” from ANSAmed, November 2: (ANSAmed) – Tunis -The new imam of the Nour mosque appointed after his predecessor Aymen Amdouni was […]
Tunisia: Islamic supremacists roam Tunis armed with knives after killing of Salafist
Democracy and freedom on the streets of “Arab Spring” Tunisia. “Armed Islamists on Tunis streets after clashes,” from AFP, October 31 (thanks to 538): TUNIS “” Dozens of Islamists, some armed with knives, took to the streets of Tunis on Wednesday after deadly clashes overnight, but there was no sign of additional security despite authorities […]
New York Times op-ed calls Tunisian Islamic supremacists “bearded savages”
Will Mona Eltahawy spray-paint the New York Times offices? Will Souhir Stephenson and the New York Times be called “racists” and “bigots” in indignant editorials in…the New York Times, as well as the Washington Post, CNN, et al? Will the politically correct elites recoil in horror and write a thousand counter-op eds denouncing the Times […]
Tunisia: Critic of Islamic supremacist regime fined for “drunkenness and indecency during Ramadan”
More glories of the democratic and pluralist “Arab Spring” in Tunisia. “Tunisian anti-Islamist blogger fined for ‘indecency,’” from Middle East Online, October 30 (thanks to Twostellas): TUNIS – A Tunisian court on Tuesday ordered blogger and anti-Islamist activist Sofiane Chourabi to pay a 104 dinar (52 euro/$67) fine for drunkenness and indecency during Ramadan, he […]
Sharia in action in Tunisia: Islamic supremacists cut off four fingers of alcohol salesman
Selling alcohol: haram. Amputating four fingers of an alcohol salesman: pleasing to Allah. “Tunisia: Salafist Extremist Attack Alcohol Sellers,” from ANSAmed, October 29 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – Rome, 29 October – An alcohol beverages seller was attacked in La Manouba by a group of Salafist extremists, who cut off four of his fingers. The […]
Tunisia: National Guard protests government’s leniency toward pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists
Here is still more indication that the “Arab Spring” is not now and never was the pro-democracy, pro-Western movement that the mainstream media assumed and insisted that it was. “Tunisia: National Guard protests gov’t pr-Salafist leniency,” from ANSAmed, October 29 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – TUNIS – For three days beginning on Monday, Tunisian National […]
Tunisia: Thousands of secularists protest against “Arab Spring” Islamic supremacist government
“No to emerging dictatorship .. not for religious dictatorship.” Oh, the Islamophobia! “Tunisian secularists protest against Islamist rulers,” by Tarek Amara for Reuters, October 22 (thanks to Twostellas): TUNIS (Reuters) – Thousands of secularist protesters accused Tunisia’s Islamist government on Monday of undermining a transition to democracy by failing to stem violence after a secular […]
Tunisia: Islamic supremacists murder secular politician
Note that the Islamic supremacist group is called the Association for the Protection of the Revolution. The group thereby reveals that they have none of the Western illusions about the nature of the “Arab Spring,” and never did. They don’t think it was a wonderful outpouring of democracy and pluralism that was “hijacked” by pro-Sharia […]
Tunisia: Violent confrontations between Islamic supremacist and Leftist students
The once-storied love affair is fraying in both Egypt and Tunisia. “Leftist-Islamist Struggle Fuels Tunisian University Violence,” by: Noureddine Baltayeb for al-Akhbar, October 5 (thanks to Heliogabalus): Tunis – The faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Tunis closed on Thursday and suspended classes for three days after violent confrontations broke out […]