Arab Spring? Hardline Islamists Reportedly Terrorize Tunisian Police Station and Liquor Stores Saturday
- Posted on May 26, 2012 at 8:38pm by
Erica Ritz
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(The Blaze/AP) — Hundreds of hardline Islamists terrorized a Tunisian town on Saturday, attacking a police station and stores selling alcohol.
The official TAP news agency said police fired tear gas in Jendouba to disperse groups of ultraconservative Muslims known as Salafis, some armed with clubs or sabers.
Four people were arrested and police were searching for others, Interior Minister Ali Laarayedh said on Radio Mosaique.
There has been a resurgence of hardline Islamists since the fall in February 2011 of Tunisia’s autocratic leader, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had jailed many Islamists and forced others underground.
TAP said 200 Salafis reacted violently to the arrest on Friday of a fellow Muslim adhering to their brand of Islam. They threw Molotov cocktails and stones at Jendouba’s national security headquarters, their numbers growing to some 500 as they moved to the center of town. They set fire to the police station and pillaged bars and stores where alcohol was sold en route, some calling for a holy war.
As police used tear gas, soldiers took up positions outside public buildings. The Salafis eventually took refuge in a mosque, TAP said.
(Photo: AP)
The violence came a week after Salafis attacked bars and other places selling liquor in Sidi Bouzid, the central western town where the spark of the Tunisian revolution that triggered the Arab Spring was lit.
In a dramatic display of force, hundreds of Salafis dressed in Afghan-style garb gathered from several regions in the holy city of Kairouan last Sunday. With some bearing sabers and astride horses, they carried out martial arts exercises or rode around under the eye of Abu Yadh, whose real name is Seifallah Ben Hassine. He was imprisoned under Ben Ali but pardoned after his fall.
Here is an example of one of the martial arts demonstrations, uploaded onto YouTube by Tunisie Numerique:
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ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 12:44pmThank HAJI HILLARY and BO for doing a fine job of bring the Muslim brotherhood to the fore, along with the great and wonderful SHARIA that the powers of hate, that want us all in its ugly grasp. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.
Report Post »cristo52
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:13amObama loves this. This is “his people” throwing off the chains of colonialism. Wonder how that “reap/sow” thing is working, kinda like the “hope/change” thing.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:07amIstn’t it wonderful, as Obama & CO. told us? DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM to follow….
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:24amDEMOCRACY without a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC is a THUG-OCCRISY/MONARCHY.!
Report Post »FREEDOM becomes only for the King…but HE will soon find out …He is bound tighter-than-chains…to HIS Throne! He will eventually BEG to go back to that “much-better” history, but HE will be stuck there until death. All his lemmings will just love their “new-world-order”(sarc.). They’re all “equal” now….they ‘re ALL SLAVES!! :-(
Grace1798
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 9:11amYes and I think that Democratic leaders will keep putting them in power in USA so that this TOO can happen here in USA. I don’t drink, so yea, let them do this here too! This is, afterall, the Democrat‘s dream isn’t it? Go for it man! LOL.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:46amObama should meet with them. they could smoke some obamaweed and all mellow out.
Report Post »TWO BITS
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:41amWith no foundation of freedom in place, the celebrations have evolved into survival of the fittest. Islamists will dominate the Middle East, and religious and human rights will go up in smoke. Generations of radicals will pose a security threat to our country forever.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:35ammuslim ninja’s.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:33ameverybody was kung fu fighting. i didn’t watch the video just the picture was too funny. they should play that old song to the video “everybody was kung fu fighting”.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:28amanother happy time in the middle east. the muslims live to protest and burn and kill. all in the name of their false god.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 1:37pmI for one really enjoyed that video above of the Muslim Dance Troop. If they would add a female to their shenanigans they could give France a run on their Dance Of The Apache.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:08amOccupy Tunisia
Report Post »Arc
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 2:04amGlenns predictions coming thru…..A Caliphate.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:42amThe current Caliph lives in London!
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 12:33amYou hand muslims rakes and they turn them into weapons to kill Jews and their own cousins. Irrigation and cultivation is beyond their understanding…can’t get past the Cain rituals.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 12:06amThe undirty secret is, the Arab Spring really is an Arab Spring. It’s not horrific and cataclysmic. It’s nonviolent, perfect, and beautiful. Read the less censored articles about it. It’s their Tea Party.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:40amThat Tea is laced with LSD… and causes one to Misinterpret Reality!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:53pmOf course… Cary Nation would be proud… and giving support!
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:13amThey’re just………..“RECYCLING”!
Report Post »moneyshot556762
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:41pmIts looking real promising in middle east nowadays.. Alls they need is democracy and they will be just fine.. lol
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:43pm“ARAB SPRING? HARDLINE ISLAMISTS REPORTEDLY TERRORIZE TUNISIAN POLICE STATION AND LIQUOR STORES SATURDAY”
There’s a PROBLEM with this whole “Islam is the enemy strategy”–Islam is just a little TOO CLOSE to Christianity and Judaism (particularly the former) for comfort of the two. In fact, Islam is to Christianity what Christianity is to Judaism–a subsequent (and considered “heretical” by the older ‘orthodox’ faith) prophet claiming to have a “revised” and “truer” message from God than the old faith which got it “mostly” right.
Every story about the “violence” of “hardline Islamists” is just one more proof of the poisonous influence of ALL theistic beliefs.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:55pmAn atheist that is an expert on religion…interesting concept, it is….
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:56pmIslam claims to be the original “faith” and contends all others are heretical corruptions .
Report Post »Islam calls for the death of all none muslims That is insufficient evidence for the condemnation of all faiths.
The Third Archon
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:07pmLike most, I wasn’t always an atheist–I was indoctrinated into the Christian faith in the usual manner of Americans. But once I was equipped with the capacity to critically question my beliefs, turning that ability to theological beliefs revealed how difficult, ultimately impossible, it was to come up with (as a human) answers to the metaphysical questions (and assertions) posed by theology. And so, while I make no claim to know whether or not GOD is real, I can be as CERTAIN as humanely possible that the arrogant ecclesiastics of every various religion that has existed are JUST AS IGNORANT of the truth (about theology) as I am.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:09pm@Mr. Fitnah
Report Post »1) Not true of the majority of Muslim practice.
2) Regardless of what they SAY about themselves (it is not uncommon for groups to tell their own myths of exceptionalism), the historical fact of the matter is that Islam has similar origins from the Abrahamic tradition, as Christianity originally did from the Jewish tradition (or as a more contemporary example, the Mormons from mainline Christianity).
Inlightofthings
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 4:20amI would think one would have needed to study all religions mentioned in depth to support such claims. Simply denouncing God does not qualify anyone to compare and contrast religion to any level of detail. You have a skilled tongue, making me equally suspicious.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 4:25amIf you truly knew the beliefs of Christians and muslims then you would know that they are exact opposites.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:24am@ archon………. no booze for you. muslims worship a false GOD. you can not compair christians and jews to muslims.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:39pmThis seems to be a clipped video of one I found yesterday on memri.org
They really don’t like Obama very much, in fact they call him a pig.
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3445.htm
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:23pmSo now they are trying to make you think that there are two groups of islamists, Hardcore and Softcore. I’m not buying that B.S.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:34pmHear, hear… was just getting ready to say something similar.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:07pmAgreed.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:19pmJust as “The One”, hoped for his brothers.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 8:58pmAwwww yes .. the “religion of peace” strikes again.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 8:49pmNo surprise here…wait ’til “Spring” turns to summer in Libya, Egypt, Yemen etc etc…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:25pmBy the end of summer, they will look like Chicago.
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