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In reply to the discussion: Topless Tunisian Activist Amina Tyler: 'Femen Are True Feminists But They Have Insulted Muslims' [View all]Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)..and as i said, who am i except a speculating spectator? tunisia may be politically structured as a secular democratic republic and may have a history of possessing a contextually progressive attitude toward women, but look at the u.s.a. we're the original western secular democratic republic and there's still a strong contingent who would argue that this is a 'christian nation'. hell in north carolina there's wingnuts trying to establish christianity as the state religion.
just because tunisia was or is generally forward looking doesn't mean it will remain so. nor does it mean that everyone in tunisia looks forward.
if it helps.. i would suspect coercion if amina lived in kansas, too, and if the words scrawled on her chest had read, 'fuck the bible' instead of 'fuck the koran'.