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| Tunisian Salafists storm female student hostel to stop dancing |
| 2013-04-20 |
| [Al Ahram] Hardline Islamists threw stones and bottles at young women in a student hostel in Tunis to stop them staging a performance of dance and music, witnesses said on Thursday, in another blow to secular freedoms in the country that spawned the Arab Spring. Since secular dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fell two years ago in the first of multiple revolts across the Arab world, moderate Islamists have won election and radical Moslems have targeted symbols of a hitherto mainly secular society. Female university students housed at the Bardo district hostel in the capital were just starting a weekly show of dance and music on Wednesday evening when dozens of hardline Salafists |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The police were present and did not move. Sounds like the police were in on it. Kinda thing I'd expect from Obama's cops if Union thugs attacked a peaceful Tea Party. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-04-20 14:51 |
| #1 were they doing the Elaine Benes dance? Cuz I'd make em stop too |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-04-20 08:55 |