Facism breaks out in tourist Tunisia.

squod

''It was believed to be the first such attack on a
hotel in the North African country, which relies
heavily on tourism.
"About 100 Salafis attacked the hotel on
Monday night and smashed all its contents.
They entered the rooms and damaged furniture
and smashed bottles of alcohol," Jamil Horcheni,
the owner of the hotel, told Reuters.
He said ultra-conservative Islamists had
threatened to attack his hotel in May if he did
not stop selling alcohol.
Tunisia, whose authoritarian president, Zine El
Abidine Ben Ali, was overthrown by a popular
uprising last year, now has an elected Islamist-
led government. There have been several
attacks on cultural and tourist sites since the
revolt.
In recent weeks, Salafi groups have prevented
several concerts and plays from taking place in
Tunisian cities, saying they violate Islamic
principles, worrying secular-minded Tunisians
who believe freedom of expression is in danger.''

France 24 (TV News) reports boot boys attacking tourists and smashing up bars.
People protesting over plays and cultural events and police doing feck all.

Nudder tourist destination off the cards. Remeber that place was pedddled as paradise by some travel agents.

The Radiator

Heil Führer

Cookie_Monster

That sounds like Religion rather than Fascism

Chuck Stone

This is why we can't have nice things.

dodderangler

I blame crab people they're the biggest fascists out there

squod

That debate is over now on France24. Anyone who watched it would be surprised by their coverage of recent events.

Place looks lovely still though.

partyatmygaff

Nothing new. Islamo-fascism has been steadily growing over in the Middle East since the 70s. Since the "freedom" gained last Spring across the region, there's been an alarming surge in their activity.

policarp

We'll have to go on the auld Crusades again. . .Methinks. . .

suicide_circus

Yep, Tunisia crossed off the list of holiday destinations, along with anywhere else these dark ages **** think its accepted to target tourists.

Overthrow

I think I'll become a fundamentalist. That way I can run around with my buddies tearing up the gaf and just blame it on something I read in a book.

Reekwind

Someday people are going to have to learn the meaning of the word 'fascism'

squod wrote: »

Nudder tourist destination off the cards. Remeber that place was pedddled as paradise by some travel agents.

I really don't think that the impact on tourism is the most disturbing thing about these events...

Mr Benevolent

As long as the Canaries stays free of radical Islam maniacs I'm fine.

wandatowell

CRUSADE!!!

speedboatchase

Westen history is going to judge the 'Arab Spring' very differently than it did last year. The likes of Egypt are certainly becoming a lot less 'free' than one may have expected, or at least hoped.

Reekwind

speedboatchase wrote: »

Westen history is going to judge the 'Arab Spring' very differently than it did last year. The likes of Egypt are certainly becoming a lot less 'free' than one may have expected, or at least hoped.

To quote Blum, 1848 (the original 'European Spring') is remembered not for what it achieved but for what it promised

Lord Derpington

Source for article

Looks like a nice hotel to be honest, might get a good deal from now on

I was in Tunisia about 2 years ago in Sousse at Port El Kantaoui, I know thats a dedicated tourist spot but we didn't have any problem getting served alcohol anywhere.
There were even multiple nightclubs in Sousse, pity to see it go this way really tourism is worth a butload of money to Tunisia and attacks on innocent people due to they not abiding by your belief are really not the way to promote it.

ejmaztec

These uprisings are popular, but what happens afterwards isn't, because they seem to get hijacked by worse people than ran the countries in the first place.

sweeney1971

Went there many years ago and it was a lovely Country. People welcomed the tourists BUT these trouble makers just want it to go back to the Stone Age, then come begging the West for Food Aid.

Calibos

Anyone with an ounce of historical knowledge knew this was coming. Happened after the Iranian revolution. People think they have it bad under a secular dictator but these are the guys that keep a lid on the fundy lunatics. Soon as the the old guy is out the fundies take over the 'revolution'.

sweeney1971

Calibos wrote: »

Anyone with an ounce of historical knowledge knew this was coming. Happened after the Iranian revolution. People think they have it bad under a secular dictator but these are the guys that keep a lid on the fundy lunatics. Soon as the the old guy is out the fundies take over the 'revolution'.

Happened in Iraq, Lybia and now Syria as well as Eygt.

squod

That lad from the Financial Times called theses bootboys ''brownshirts''. Thats a pretty damning word to use. For my 2c I say this has nothing to do with religion and a lot to do with people trying to gain control for the benefit of themselves.

Feelings of superiority, bigotry, suppression of peoples rights, funny costumes (habib), it's all there and more. Let's all sit back and watch the UN do what it was founded to do, or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo

brimal

Religion of Peace

ejmaztec

I wonder how different things would be had the Americans not backed Israel to the hilt, and kept it's big nose out over the decades

Reekwind

Calibos wrote: »

Anyone with an ounce of historical knowledge knew this was coming. Happened after the Iranian revolution. People think they have it bad under a secular dictator but these are the guys that keep a lid on the fundy lunatics. Soon as the the old guy is out the fundies take over the 'revolution'.

And anyone with an ounce of insight into history knows that this doesn't happen by accident. Those corrupt and decrepit secular regimes collapsed because they were, well, corrupt and decrepit. In the process they make the Islamists look good in comparison. The problem here lies as much with the failings of the former regime, and those that supported it, as with "the fundies", as you put it

--Kaiser--

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Nothing new. Islamo-fascism has been steadily growing over in the Middle East since the 70s. Since the "freedom" gained last Spring across the region, there's been an alarming surge in their activity.

I found it was hilarious that most western commentators thought the 'arab spring' was a good thing.
A backwards, uneducated, fundamentalist populace will elect a backwards, uneducated, fundamentalist government

Reekwind

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

I found it was hilarious that most western commentators thought the 'arab spring' was a good thing.
A backwards, uneducated, fundamentalist populace will elect a backwards, uneducated, fundamentalist government

Whereas democracy just sprung into the minds of the enlightened Europeans? Talk about uneducated

Democracies are built through struggle. 1848 produced little of note (except perhaps increased counter-reaction) but remains a milestone in the emergence of a European democratic tradition. Challenging corrupt authoritarian regimes, regardless of the tangible immediate outcomes, can only be a Good Thing in terms of building democracy and advancing social conciousness

Otherwise you're just writing off a huge chunk of the world as primitive savages

csi vegas

squod wrote: »

Nudder tourist destination off the cards. Remeber that place was pedddled as paradise by some travel agents.

Far, far from it. I know, I was one of the unfortunates duped in to visiting not more than eight years back. We dared to venture out of our hotel one day (although every local brochure recommended not to) and we wandered along the main road to town where about twenty vehichles slowed down to...shout obscenities and stare us out...with what all I can describe as looks of utter hatred towards us, the 'westerners'.
We were treated the same at the hotel, with utter hostility from all the staff. Not a welcoming people at all.