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Tunisia Braces for Protests Over French Cartoons
[VOA News]  A week after Mohammedans worldwide vented their anger at an anti-Islam film made in the United States, authorities in Tunisia are bracing for more unrest this Friday - this time because of French cartoons making fun of the Mohammedan Prophet Muhammad.Right now it's a typical weekday afternoon in downtown Tunis. The main Habib Bourguiba Avenue is choked with traffic and pedestrians. One thing that is different, however, are the barbed wire and police flanking La Belle France's elegant embassy. The extra security comes ahead of Friday prayers - and a day after a French magazine published cartoons mocking the Mohammedan Prophet Muhammad. Tunisian authorities clearly don't want a repeat of last Friday, when violent demonstrations by Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... outside the U.S. embassy here killed four Tunisians and injured dozens of others. Posted by: Fred 2012-09-21 |
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