Tunisia’s Manouba University is a major site of resistance to Salafist activity in that country.
Students, faculty, and administration are fighting back strongly, and the government, after first remaining silent about the Salafists blocking classes there until women can attend in full veil, has now condemned them.
Coverage here from the university’s website (in French).
If Tunisia’s not careful, it’s going to start looking like Israel.
January 28th, 2012 at 3:51PM
[…] were at the forefront of this protest, since they have the most to lose. Salafists have already occupied a university, demanding an end to its no-burqa policy (they were eventually made to […]