A member of the group ascribes the growing presence and aggressiveness of pro-Sharia Islamic hardliners in Tunisia — people who think stabbing an atheist is a pious act — to the “so-called revolution” of 2011. You know, the “Arab Spring.”
“Tunisian Islamist extremists are threatening and attacking freethinkers, a sign of increasing violence in Tunisia following the 2011 revolution,” by Tara Abhasakun, Conatus News, March 1, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Last week, Tunisian citizen Nacer Amari, a member of an organisation called Tunisian Freethinkers, announced on Facebook that the president of the organisation had been stabbed and assaulted by Islamic extremists outside a bar in Tunis.
The attackers, believing that they had not inflicted enough harm, continued to follow the victim, Hatem Al Imam, to his home, where they attempted to break in.
Ameri said that members of the organisation had been attacked in the past and that he has also received death threats.
Two other members of Tunisian Freethinkers spoke to me about their experiences with attacks and threats from extremists.
A Revolution Gone WrongSarah Angel, another member of Tunisian Freethinkers, said that the growing extremism was a result of the “so-called revolution” in 2011 when President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted.
“Tunisia’s constitution is relative[ly new]… and we are a country that is ahead of humanitarian laws in the Middle East as a whole…[for] example… the first country to prevent polygamy. But after the so-called revolution, political Islam penetrated into the entire country in an unprecedented manner, assassinations accumulated like the assassination of Chokri Belaid, Mohamed Al Brahmi, and others without any consideration from the state.”
The two assassinated people who Angel mentioned, Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Al Brahmi, were political leaders who were both assassinated in 2013 for their opposition to Islamist parties….
elee says
Our world or theirs? Oh and……see how these “Arab Spring” thingies turn our?
john spielman says
yup and ‘islamic scholar ” is an OXYMORON
mortimer says
Ah … Arab Spring… it’s turned into another ARAB-ISLAM WINTER in no time, hasn’t it?
FREE-THINKERS are not welcome in ANY place where SHARIA LAW raises its UGLY HEAD.
Karen says
Yes, they demand more oppression….from Sharia and Islamism.
R Russell says
The UK tourists were given the go ahead to holiday in Tunisia again just last month. This was because the Home Office had black listed Tunisia as a holiday destination after the massacre in 2015.
I doubt any report of this attack will be reported in the UK media.
Will holiday makers find out that Tunisia is still not as safe as it is made out to be?
mortimer says
RR, hot news for UK Home Office … NO ISLAMIC COUNTRY IS ‘SAFE’ for DIRTY KAFIRS … (not even the UK since London’s mayor said…”GET USED TO IT”.)
Muslims are required to HATE all dirty KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’.
Message to Home Office: GET THAT? “HATE KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’.”
Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
gravenimage says
Insane news, R Russell. Of course it is not safe for Infidels there.
Gjallarhornet says
And Tunisia is hailed, time and time again, as the most up to date and least jihadi arab country ….
A couple of months after the beach massacre there the papers here filled up their traveling sections with articles proclaiming ‘now it is safe to go to Tunisia again’.
Something tells me, that maybe that feeling of safety may not be so self evident. So my personal advise for the sun hungry ‘haven’t got a clue’ European vacationer would be to hold ‘buy flight Tunis’-urge a bit and pick another country. Like maybe … Uruguay. The country with the smallest number of muslims in the western world.
Eur says
We already said here that it was a matter of time. Murderous Muslims
Phil Copson says
Why would anyone even want to support the economies of most of these places anyway ?
I’d no sooner give my holiday money to evil dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, Turkey etc than have a holiday in North Korea or the killing fields of Cambodia.
Hilariously, some woman from the Zimbabwean government was being interviewed on the BBC yesterday, appealing for British tourists to spend money there; she was so utterly moronic that when she tried to name “the big five” amongst African wild-life species that the country boasts, she could only think of the names of two animals.
Still – to be fair – I suppose if you’re a government minister in Zimbabwe, you probably do have to stop and think for a moment whether you’ve still got any elephants and rhinocerii left, or whether your mates with the pick-up trucks and machine-guns have killed the last ones yet…..
LeftisruiningCanada says
“I’d no sooner give my holiday money to evil dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, Turkey etc than have a holiday in North Korea or the killing fields of Cambodia.”
I know what you’re saying, and for NK you’d be right since everything is pretty much owned by the State, but In Cambodia for example, the people in general are not responsible for what is happening, or did happen, there and could use the money that tourism brings in. (At least no more responsible than we in the West are for things we get blamed for).
Many Turks don’t want the ottoman empire stuff back. It would be possible perhaps to visit there and try to spend money in places that are more western looking. It would take research of course, but it could be done.
On a certain level (a level which the mad muslims are not on) we are all just folk trying to feed our families and keep a home together.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Phil.
gravenimage says
Tunisia: Muslims beat up and stab president of Tunisian Freethinkers
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This poor man. I’m glad he survived–but in the increasingly disturbing environment in Tunisia he may not.
Pious Muslims hate free-thinking–or thinking of any kind.
Lydia Church says
Well, after all, who would be so pompous as to presume that one had the freedom to think in a muslim country??? Any thoughts not in agreement with their evil tyranny are to be annihilated by killing their source of origin, the people who are actually thinking!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes….imagine if every thought not conforming to mohammad’s evil was haram.
FYI says
They are going after atheists in Egypt too..
The koran curses Jews and Christians{“allah’s curse upon them” k9:30};it curses the Jews simply because they are Jews and the Christians simply because they are Christians.
islam however,absolutely does not tolerate atheists.
But people must have the right to reject religion if they wish:allowing mass islamic immigration into the west is bad news for Atheists,Christians,Jews,Gay people etc.
islam is a violently intolerant cult based on a book that preaches hatred and promotes the Sunnah or example of a self-appointed “prophet” who was a mass murderer{Abu Dawud 4390} and admitted terrorist.
“I am made victorious through terror”
Bukhari 4:52:220
I don’t care if you are an Atheist,Agnostic or a member of a non-islamic religion[Hindu,Buddhist,Jew,Christian etc}:We can ALL see the common enemy is…. islam..
All non-muslims(and ex-muslims) are potential enemies to the Godless islamofascist savages.
islam:with its false anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-freedom god “allah” and its murderous false “prophet” muhammed.
muslims will either force you to convert,murder you or steal from you via a jizya tax.
Apparently, the concept of obeying ANY of God’s actual Commandments{laws which forbid stealing,homicide,bearing false witness…} appears to be completely lost on muslims..and that’s because their allah teaches them that they are free to do so…and to hate “infidels”..
Who is causing all the trouble in the world?
Who is at war with ALL religions and those of no religion?
Who is attacking the places of worship of Jews,Christians etc?
islam and its followers.
Look at the Godless,demonic savages of isis;Do they obey ANY of God’s Commandments?No!
Instead they follow their gospel of hate,the warped and immoral teachings of their god allah’s commandment of God-violating “holy” koran and their mass-murdering polygamist “prophet”.
Matthieu Baudin says
Tunisia is a type of litmus test for the possibilities of civil society within Traditional Islamic Communities. If Tunisia goes under, so will the whole of Islamic North Africa.
Politicianophobia says
Just some manic muslims.