11.10.2011, 00:10
Mal wieder was aus Tunesien. Nach dem Sturz des Ben Ali Regimes scheint auch dort der politische Islam auf dem Vormarsch:
Zitat:Islamist protesters attack Tunisian TV station over animated film Persepolis<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/10/islamist-protesters-attack-tunisian-persepolis?newsfeed=true">http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct ... sfeed=true</a><!-- m -->
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Based on writer and co-director Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, the Oscar-nominated animated tale follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian revolution. Protesters said the film denigrated Islam and were particularly outraged by a scene in which God appears before Satrapi to teach her about forgiveness.
Police arrested around 50 Islamists before they could reach the offices of the Nessma private television channel, which broadcast Persepolis on Friday. "Three hundred people attacked our offices and tried to set fire to them," Nessma chairman Nebil Karoui told AFP.
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Zitat:Tunisia Islamists re-emerge as political force<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/tunisia-islamists-reemerge-as-political-force/2011/10/10/gIQA75omaL_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/afr ... story.html</a><!-- m -->
The election will be the first in the political transitions under way in the Middle East and north Africa. Campaign events organized by Nahda begin with a prayer and have a buzz lacking at other parties’ rallies. In a community hall in Hay Taddaamun, a working-class Tunis suburb, women outnumbered men in the audience. Party flags and bandanas with Nahda slogans were distributed to children, while party members performed comic sketches mocking the former regime.
The party, decimated in the 1990s by Zine al Abidine Ben Ali, the former president who posed as the defender of secularism, has regrouped since the regime was ousted in January.
Opinion polls suggest it could emerge as the biggest party in the elections, although it is still likely to be well short of a majority. Its rapid re-emergence has alarmed secular sections of society and sent liberal parties scrambling for ways to compete with the Islamist message in an effort to win over elusive younger voters. Its influence is also apparent in the pledge from many parties to “defend Tunisia’s Arab and Islamic identity”.
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