Slim K

A Revolution in Tunisia? FAIL! The Religious and Radical Islam spread like a Cancer? Yes, but ineffective and FAIL! Prosperity and Peace in North Africa? FAIL!

The political situation in Tunis is more complicated and less optimistic. Political freedoms have been secured, but social problems remain. The economic crisis has not disappeared. The ruling coalition of Islamists and Social Democrats is losing popularity and society is becoming increasingly polarized and impatient. Contraband alcohol is flowing from Tunisia across its now open border with Libya, a country that formally observes the Islamic ban on drinking. Libyans admit that alcoholism had increased during the final years of Moammar Gadhafi’s rule as people looked for a way to spend their modest share of the country’s oil wealth. Now the Libyans have come up with a new export of their own: selling off the former regime’s arsenal. Some of those weapons have found their way into Tunisia where they are warehoused for possible future needs.

This Islamic movement is incompetent of leading, let’s face it! Major failure! If elections are held soon, the Islamists would have to relinquish power. The main reason is that their electorate is rapidly diminishing. They won the last elections not so much through popular support but because of the fragmentation of their opponents.

Everything looks peaceful at the moment, but as the old saying goes, “If you keep a gun in your home, it will probably get used.” http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/tunis-the-birthplace-of-the-arab-spring-2-years-on/478586.html

Tunisian Islamist cleric Adel Almi, president of Al-Jamia Al-Li-Wassatia Tawia Wal-Islah has called for Amina’s flogging and stoning to death saying Amina’s actions will bring misfortune by causing “epidemics and disasters” and “could be contagious and give ideas to other women…” *It’s a shame this is happening in 2013, more reason to get rid of Religion from Government and keep them separate forever!!!!!!

“The government is not only helpless on this issue, but they also cripple us and the whole society from doing what is needed,” said a spokesperson for the Tunisian Association for Democratic Women.

The Arab Spring charade continues.. inequality, injustice, discrimination against women and other, no jobs, dead economy and much much more. But let’s have faith, Religion will save it.. With an Islamic Government like Ennahdha, who has doubts, they are doing a great job, I’m sure things will get much better.. “soon”, let’s pray!

Yet another Arab Spring Failure Event! Opposition leader Chokri Belaid routinely received death threats for his outspoken criticism of Tunisia’s Islamist-led government. He talked about the bullying on his frequent television appearances but said he didn’t fear for his life. Well this Wednesday morning, a gunman shot and killed Belaid in front of his home as he was leaving for work, according to an eyewitness. Belaid’s political allies and even his Islamist opponents are decrying the murder as an assassination, sparking new protests in the cradle of the “Arab Spring.” …Arab Spring my ass!

Has anyone noticed, that most killed victims from that region, may it be from Egypt, Libya or Tunisia are from “opposition”, and never Muslim Brotherhood, Salafis, or Ennahdha members!?!? Coincidence?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/06/world/meast/tunisia-opposition-leader-killed/index.html?hpt=wo_c1

Members of Tunisia’s small drag queen population have reported increasing harassment and surveillance under the country’s post-revolutionary regime.

“The show is currently surviving under an emergency state,” the commercial director of a drag show in Sousse recently told Tunisia Live. “We had to take down our fliers to minimize the risk of the actors being recognized.”

*Its a shame Tunisia has some great diversity of people (and a big gay community, believe it or not.. decades if not centuries), Tunisia needs to wake up even Turkey and elsewhere in the Middle East and north Africa has famous drag queens on TV and Entertainment (so what?).

I think, what goes on between two consenting adults (it’s their choice) is no ones business but their own and in terms of religion only god can judge them, not people or law.

Leave the gays and lesbians alone, let’s focus on more important issues for example, like the economy, education, jobs.. FOOD!

Read more about Tunisian drag queens. http://www.tunisia-live.net/2013/01/28/tunisian-drag-queen-shows-threatened-by-discrimination/

“These saints are Muslim by definition. They have reached a level of wisdom, goodness, tolerance, insight, and perfection that justify their special place,” says a Tunisian historian.

This is sad to read, these people who did this are so poor minded, so ignorant, so pathetic with no perspective whatsoever .. Do they really think, they can achieve anything by desecrating Jewish graves, destroying mausoleums and historic sights?, to me it’s nothing more than Stupidity and spreading terror. 

Thirty-four shrines of Tunisian saints have been either burnt or partially destroyed since the revolution, according to the Ministry of Culture.

Tunisia’s historical and cultural patrimony finds itself threatened by these incidents, which have caught the attention of the many Tunisians who value the cultural worth of such mausoleums. While the perpetrators are largely believed to be religious hardliners, they are in fact ignorant of the social and religious importance of the shrines they destroy, say historians.

“Islam was able to easily spread because of its tolerance. It did not wreck previous cultures, but absorbed them,” Sophie Ferchiou, a Tunisian sociologist and author of ‘Plural Islam,’ told Tunisia Live.

The U.S. State Department is airlifting armored vehicles and other equipment to its missions in Tunisia and Somalia, part of efforts to boost security in the wake of last week’s attacks on diplomatic compounds in North Africa and the Middle East.

Something more interesting in this article is.. that it presents inaccurate facts! And I don’t understand the naive view of the West, thinking North Africa had “free & democratic” elections after the so called “Arab spring’ !? That’s absurd. For example, the error in the article about power-sharing in the Government, says: “Last October, the country’s first democratic elections resulted in a power-sharing agreement between the Islamist Ennahda Party, which controls the legislature, and its two secular rivals, one of which controls the presidency, and the other the Prime Minister’s office.” - That’s NOT true!

Fact is, Ennahdha -the Islamist party- controls both the legislature and the Prime Minster’s office. As it does most ministries.

Moncef Marzouki from the CPR Party has the Presidency while Ben Jaafar from the Takattol Party is President of the National Constitutional Assembly (ANC as it is referred to in Tunisia, by its French acronym), the parliament running the country.

It is also a fact that “president” Marzouki has been stripped of most the Presidency’s power as part of the Troika negotiations to share power. Tunisia has been in a de-facto parliamentary system since October 23, 2011. Ben Jaafar, has even less powers and for the most part, plays the role of a figure head in the assembly.

Point is, Tunisia’s current Government is a JOKE! And it’s going to get funnier after the next so called “free & democratic” elections on Oct 23, 2012. Get some Popcorn & grab a Beer! http://world.time.com/2012/09/16/political-battles-in-tunisia-shade-attacks-on-u-s-embassy/

Oh, how predictable this is!! Tunisia Losing “Economic” direction? Tunisia didn’t have a general direction to begin with! They overthrew President Ben Ali (or should I say, He resigned), and that’s about it.. What a waste of a “Revolution”, more an illusion! Tunisia is precisely what we can expect - we saw it in South Africa. Economically the countries degrade once they have democracy, but become more stable. Stability without Prosperity (can’t have it all in Tunisia). Keep praying ;)