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by Tharwa Boulifi
• September 9, 2016 at 5:00 am
- "I hate
Christians and Jews. I don't know why. I don't have any apparent
reason to hate them but I always hear my mom talking badly about
them. She hates them too, and this is why I hate them, I guess. Mom
has always told me that Muslims are Allah's favorite people," —
F., a 15-year-old Tunisian girl.
- "They said
that non-Muslims deserve to die; we should have no pity for them.
They will burn in hell, anyway." — M., a 16-year-old Tunisian
boy.
- People who do
not read tend to fear things they do not know, and this fear can
turn into suspicion, aggression and hate. These people need to fill
the void, to remove the discomfort, so they turn to terrorism to
create a goal in their lives: defending Islam.
- As most Tunisians
do not read, they watch TV a lot. "After watching 'The Sultan's
Harem,' I wanted to be one of the Sultan's concubines, to live in
the Ottoman Empire era; I wanted to be like them," said S., a
14-year-old Tunisian girl.
"The Sultan's Harem", a Turkish TV series
popular in Tunisia, shows attractive concubines trying to seduce the
Sultan by dancing, singing, and being obedient and submissive -- all of
which can encourage girls to join the "sexual jihad", by which
girls provide sex to jihadists.
A Pew Research Center report, published in 2013, entitled, "The
World's Muslims, Religion, Politics and Society," explored attitudes
and opinions of Muslims around the world regarding religion and its
impact on politics, ethics and science.
A sample of 1450 Tunisian Muslims from all the 24 governorates of
Tunisia were interviewed between November and December 2011. According to
the study, 50% of Tunisians consider themselves living a conflict between
their religion and the modern world. According to the report, 32% of
Tunisians consider divorce unethical -- the highest rate in the Arab and
Muslim world -- compared to 8% in Egypt, 6% in Lebanon and 3% in Jordan.
Although 46% respondents said that religion is compatible with the modern
world, the study indicated that the Tunisian population is more prone to
advocate individual choice -- with 89% favoring -- in wearing the niqab
(face-veil).
by Burak Bekdil
• September 9, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Apparently what
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal understands of democracy is totally
different than what the term means in more civilized parts of the
world.
- If Prince
Al-Waleed so passionately defends democracy, he should spend less of
his office time in showing solidarity with undemocratic leaders, and
more in giving at least a bit of democratic breathing space to his
own people.
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal meets with Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, May 6, 2015.
In the Saudi Kingdom, the primary source of law is the Islamic
sharia, based on the principles of a school of jurisprudence (Hanbali)
found in pre-modern texts. Ultra-puritanical judges and lawyers form part
of the country's Islamic scholars.
But there is another main source of law: royal decrees. Simple death
penalty along with beheading, stoning to death, amputation, crucifixion
and lashing are common legal punishments. In the three years to 2010,
there were 345 beheadings. But the legal system is usually too lenient
for cases of rape and domestic violence.
The common punishment for offenses against religion and public
morality such as drinking alcohol and neglect of prayer is usually
lashings. Retaliatory punishments are also part of the legal system, such
as, literally, an eye for an eye. Saudis can also grant clemency, in
return for money, to someone who has unlawfully killed their relatives.
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