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Salafists fight secularism in Tunisia's universities

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In Tunisia, conservative Islamists are becoming increasingly insistent - we look at protests held at one university in Manouba. Also, Libya’s Prime Minister and Tripoli's residents urge former fighters to put down their weapons and go home. Finally, Africa's biggest shopping complex opens in Morocco, but some fear it will drive a deeper wedge between the have's and have-nots.

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Salafis

by Anonyme - 22/12/2011 - 20:43

Bismillah, verily the Tunisian government is plunged in the ocean of secularism that is not from Allah but rather stems from the devil himself. In the end, everyone is going to return to Allah, so either a Salafi who accepts and wants Allah's rule or you are a secularist, communist, capitalist etc,. (followers of man-made laws/systems) who do not want no sharee'ah let alone thinking about the hereafter.

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