A draft bill presented to the Tunisian parliament that would give women and men equality with regard to inheritance laws and allow Muslim Tunisian women to marry non-Muslim men has drawn anger from conservative circles in the country and the wider Arab world. And herein lies the problem: across the Arab world — and the […]
Tunisians protest against return of Islamic State jihad terrorists from abroad
“Many of them want to return, and we can’t prevent a Tunisian from returning to his country.” European authorities say the same thing about people whose roots in the country to which they wish to return are far less deep. The objection to this line of reasoning is that in joining the Islamic State (note […]
Tunisian President: “Tunisia is determined to prove that Islam is not incompatible with democracy”
This will be a tall order, given that the only stable, functioning democracy that has ever existed in a majority-Muslim country was in Turkey, and that one was founded as a direct and explicit rejection of political Islam, and is being slowly and steadily dismantled by an authoritarian ruler who believes in political Islam. So […]
Tunisia: 50 dead in Islamic State bid to “establish a new emirate”
“Ten members of the security forces were killed in the fighting in the border town of Ben Guerdane, which Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi condemned as an ‘unprecedented’ jihadist attack aimed at ‘establishing a new Islamic State emirate.’” The Islamic State has global ambitions. No, it will not take over the world, as it wishes […]