Wherever Sharia experiences a resurgence, the observable effect is an increase in harassment and a decline in tolerance, of human rights, and civil liberties. Note the woman below who even found the grocer scolding her about her jeans. And she observed: "Everything becomes tougher: Going to see a gynaecologist, what to wear, how to talk."
The good news in this story is that not all Tunisians are ready to welcome their new overlords without a fight. What remains to be seen is whether they have the political will and strength in numbers to counter a highly aggressive and well organized campaign for Islamic rule, and a ruling party that will try to play both sides as long as it can, but will throw in its lot with Sharia when push comes to shove.
Younger Tunisian girls may soon have to ask their mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers how things used to be. "Thousands protest conservative Islam in Tunisia," from Agence France-Presse, January 28:
Thousands of Tunisians angered by the increasing prominence of ultra-conservative Islamists in a country only recently freed from dictatorial rule took to the streets in protest Saturday.An AFP correspondent estimated several thousand activists, professors, artists and other demonstrators flooded the streets of the nation's capital, including along Bourguiba Avenue, a well-known thoroughfare that became a centre for dissent during protests that led to the ouster of dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali a year ago.
Some in Tunisia are angry by the growing influence of radical Islamists, known as Salafists, who have dominated headlines in recent weeks.
Police on Tuesday ended a weeks-long sit-in by Salafists at the university in Manouba, about 25 kilometres (15 miles) from Tunis. The Salafists were angry the university had banned the full-face Muslim veil, or niqab, over security concerns if students were concealed from head to toe.
Journalists have also suffered attacks at Salafist protests.
"We are here to speak out against aggression against journalists, activists and academics," said Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, founder of the Democratic Progressive Party.
"And to tell the government that Tunisians' hard-fought freedoms must not be compromised."
Sarah Kalthoum, a retired teacher in her 70s, said she was concerned by what she viewed as regressive ideas from Salafists.
"We spent our lives educating people, and now some want us to go back in time 14 centuries," she said.
Some in the crowd said they are sensing an encroaching religious conservativism in their everyday lives.
"The grocer told me the other day, 'I don't like your jeans,'" said Leila Katech, a retired anaesthesiologist. "I told him I didn't like his beard."
Outstanding.
Through this religious prism, "Everything becomes tougher: Going to see a gynaecologist, what to wear, how to talk," Katech said. Following Ben Ali's ouster, many Tunisians in October voted for the Islamist Ennahda party, which now dominates the government.
Again, when push comes to shove:
Anxious not to alienate its more radical members, the moderate Islamist party has remained quiet or reacted timidly to some Salafist incidents....
Through this religious prism, "Everything becomes tougher: Going to see a gynaecologist, what to wear, how to talk," Katech said.
Freedom lost is very hard to regain. A 1400 year war against freedom had been waged by Islam, today's re-emerging Jihad, championed by theo-political rule of mullah tyranny over democratic-constitutional rule of law. Human rights are not part of their equation. Fight them, or submit. That's Tunisia's choice today. Their descendants will either thank them for their fight, or curse them from their submission.
Thomas Jefferson said:
To Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria: Choose wisely. We are watching history in the making throughout the Islamic world.
What's the betting that in every newly freed Arab country there will not be another free and fair election once sharia law has been implemented? Shades of animal farm, the islamic version.
"Younger Tunisian girls may soon have to ask their mothers,
grandmothers, and great-grandmothers how things used to be."
Watch and weep: "Iran Before 1979"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF47rrHd7wo
Thanks Carter and other lefties!
"The grocer told me the other day, 'I don't like your jeans,'"
In Iran they say: "I don't like your sandals"
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/red-sandals-in-iran-des-sandales-rouges.html
Jeans? That's what gets the jihad's panties in a twist? In any Western country, no one would do business with this Islamic fashion critic and everyone would laugh him out of town.
The western media really sucks.
In the Muslim countries, they are easily deceived by smooth talking Arabs.
But when you take a closer look, its always Islam that dominates every aspect of life.
Take this article here, praising "Secular Tunisians"
They seem to have a completely different understanding of ”secularism’, check this out:
This is from a radio station that was supposedly ‘secular’ during the reign of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Jeddah where he enjoys the protection of the Saudi Arabian royal family:
… the biggest office in the building was occupied at the time by the station’s most popular on-air personality — a preacher known as Sheikh Mohammad Meshfer.
But that secularism, which ended with the Arab Spring, came only at the point of a spear, or the barrel of a gun.
“we used to marginalize these Islamists, now, we need to accept them, and we need to know how to deal with everyone in society. Otherwise this will be a dictatorship again, and we don’t want that.”
The staff at Zeitouna have never been raging extremists. That they were allowed on the air under the previous regime is testimony to their moderation.
So even in “pre-Islamic times” the biggest office in the building was occupied by the stations most popular 0n-air personality – an Islamic preacher?
What kind of ‘secularism’ is that?
http://sheikyermami.com/2011/12/26/secular-tunisians-worried-about-rising-tide-of-islamic-fundamentalism/
Islam has always been a retrograde force in any society where it gains a foothold.
Arabs in Tunisia or any other country will never be free until they are willing to give up this atrocity that they think is a religion.
The staff at Zeitouna have never been raging extremists. That they were allowed on the air under the previous regime is testimony to their moderation.
Shades of Bolshevism in Russia 1917? They never learn, you can't deal with coercive political forces, esp. theo-political, through appeasement; the end is tragic. I sense doom for "Arab Spring" in Tunisia, or Egypt et al. With Islamic fundamentalists it will look more like Ayatollah's Iran than they know. Too bad, what a waste of humanity... History in the making.
.. my last was in answer to sheik yer'mami | January 29, 2012 12:56 PM
So it seems destined. that references to former President Ben Ali will soon be referred to as "the good old days."
Some in Tunisia are angry by the growing influence of radical Islamists, known as Salafists, who have dominated headlines in recent weeks.
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Well, good. But will the "secularists", or "moderates", or whatever the less fanatical Muslims are calling themselves, have sufficient numbers to resist the growing tide of Islamization?
Recent history shows that's damned unlikely.
We may have spent our lives educating people, but we allowed the influance of wrong minded people in our educational systems.
This is from A.C.T. for America.
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"Who's Vetting Muslim Chaplains On College Campuses?
http://news.investors.com/Article/598759/201201241804/college-muslim-chaplains-al-qaida-hamas-background-checks.htm
Homeland Security: To please Muslim-rights groups, more and more colleges are hiring Muslim chaplains, only to watch them radicalize students. Campuses need tougher background checks.
Alarmingly, some chaplains have actively supported al-Qaida and called for violent jihad against "kaffirs," or infidels. And yet they still have access to students, and remain on the university payroll.
Take Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, Muslim chaplain at Northeastern University in Boston. He has urged Muslims to pick up the "gun and sword" on behalf of recently imprisoned al-Qaida terrorists.
Last month, Faaruuq held a fundraiser for Aafia Siddiqui, a one-time MIT student also known as "Lady al-Qaida," who's serving an 86-year prison sentence for opening fire on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Siddiqui, a senior al-Qaida operative based in Pakistan, was captured with notes about a "mass casualty attack" in the U.S., along with a list of New York landmarks.
"What a brave woman she continues to be, and how much her bravery and her faith and her belief warrants our support at this time," said Faaruuq, as he encouraged Massachusetts Muslims to help raise $30,000 for her appeal.
"She's only guilty of defending herself," he said. In fact, Siddiqui yelled "Death to America" as she fired on soldiers. A federal judge called her actions premeditated.
While ignoring such evidence, the Northeastern chaplain condemned American soldiers as "kaffirs" and exhorted Muslims to "cut through" them with machetes.
"Go out and do your job," he said, referring to jihad.
No wonder Islamic extremism has spread at Northeastern.
Then there's Khalid Griggs, assistant chaplain at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Upon his hiring, Wake Forest's president praised him as a "well-respected individual."
Yes, well-respected among the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Griggs has served as a leader of the Islamic Circle of North America, or ICNA, cited in the Muslim Brotherhood's recently declassified founding archives as one of its front groups. He is also a senior official in the Muslim Alliance of North America. MANA was co-founded by radical Muslim cleric Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
"It is difficult to understand how the president of such a respected American university could have remained so oblivious to the serious implications of allowing an individual like Griggs with openly publicized links to the Muslim Brotherhood access to Wake Forest students," said terror expert Clare Lopez.
ICNA is an offshoot of the Muslim Students Association, another Brotherhood front. MSA has grown to one of the nation's largest college groups with more than 150 campus chapters.
MSA chapters from New York to California have extolled suicide bombers and other terrorists as "martyrs" and the "only people who truly fear Allah."
And they are a big reason why, according to a recent Pew Research poll, one in four college-age Muslims in America support suicide bombings.
MSA also organizes anti-Israel student rallies, and hectors college administrators into Islamizing campus facilities. MSA and Muslim chaplains work in lockstep.
Clearly, regents and administrators are clueless about this dangerous threat. Unless they put in place better vetting systems, radical Islamists will be able to infiltrate college campuses and indoctrinate impressionable students who graduate to become jihadists instead of productive members of society."
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It appears that Islam is many many times more effective than A. Hitler was. Islam actually has the U.S.A. funding them. And all this time our legislators approve of Islam and go after people who understand the ideology of Islam.