Tunisian court fines TV boss who screened 'Persepolis'

"This verdict is an affront to the freedom of the press"

AFP: A Tunisian court on Thursday slapped a small fine on the head of the Nessma television station for undermining morality by screening the film "Persepolis," which included depictions of God. Nabil Karoui broadcast the award-winning Franco-Iranian film which recounts the Iranian revolution and its aftermath through the eyes of a young girl, on October 7 last year. The screening prompted attacks on the station's offices and Karoui's home by activists linked to Salafism, a conservative strand of Islam >>>

03-May-2012
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amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

What the USA could not do through war, it is doing through

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saying it is pursuing democracy for others.

//www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#neocoloni...

historical examplein the name of progress and democracy

A most curious instance of U.S. “philanthropy” was the “reform” that Massachusetts Senator Henry Dawes rammed through during the 1880s. In 1883, at a meeting of Eastern philanthropists, Dawes, an Indian “expert,” spoke of his recent visit to Indian Territory. Almost certainly speaking of the Cherokee, Dawes painted a portrait that even the most Indian-friendly observer would have blushed at. What Dawes said was true, about how there were no Cherokee homeless, how the Cherokee Nation had no debt, how high literacy was and the like. For what the Cherokee had endured, what they accomplished was truly astounding, although they still had their problems, as every society does. Dawes then came to the nub of the issue as he saw it,

“Yet the defect of their system was apparent. They got as far as they can go, because they own their land in common. It is Henry George’s system, and under that there is no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization. Till this people will consent to give up their lands, and divide them among their citizens so that each can own the land he cultivates, they will not make much more progress.”[225]

Seldom has there been a more frank admission about what really drives Western civilization. The Cherokee surely had a “civilization,” something arguably more civilized than anything the whites ever had, but it was not selfish enough. Dawes tried remedying that defect. Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887. It broke up tribal lands into individual plots, at 160 acres for a head of household, down to 40 acres for a child. Such arithmetic took away 10,000 square miles of land that had been designated for the Cherokee tribe, and that land was used in the famous Oklahoma homesteader rush of 1893, complete with a starting line and gun to start the race. What Jackson could not do by outright fraud, Dawes accomplished under the rubric of “philanthropy.” The Cherokee heatedly contested such “philanthropy,” and the U.S. government responded with the 1898 Curtis Act, which abolished the governments of the Civilized Tribes. The names, faces and tactics changed, but the game remained the same.


amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

The point of the article is that Tuisia is going in the

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hands of extremists, not democratic forces.  Extremism is what the USA wants for Libya, tunisia, egypt, syria, iraq, afghanistan and Iran, NOT democracy. This is neocolonialism and people have to be kept in the dark about what is really going on, so the media doesn't connect the dots, otherwise everyone would see it openly and the policy would have opposition.  Since no one knows of the policy how can anyone oppose it.


choghok

Yes and "A separation is Shia propaganda"

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These salafists must be even more degenerated than our basijis.