The violent origin of terrorism in Tunisia

Salafis spread terror on the social and cultural scene by multiplying their acts of violence: alcoholic product sales peaks are affected by the reaction of extremists considering them as sins while considering them as some Tunisian deviance factor.

This violent shaking did not hit the bars and liquor shops only, but it has tackled the artistic activity in the cultural space of the palace El Ebdelia who had gathered artistic work of several young artists painters expressed through their paintings the different behaviors of the Salafists.

To the Tunisian social model as against the modern Tunisian culture and encourages a total refusal of daily life on the social, economic, cultural and political.

The beginning of this fury back to the events of the Faculty of Manouba; Salafists action appears to be gaining denigrating everything that does not align with their ideology that seems to refute the other and denied the rights to difference.

Between freedom of expression and prohibition of art, sociopolitical situation has become an ideological conflict arena since the passage of the film and the film Persepolis Neither God nor master who seems touched the sacred to the Islamists.

The exhibition of the various tables seems to mark another degree in the conflict that has lead the named parties Salafists against .The first modernists do not account active within a party and does not intend to play the game of democracy but prefer to impose their views even if this requires the use of violence and terror .This raises a fear social, also note that various events organized by the Salafists claim the return of sharia.

The Salafist movement has reacted violently in the western regions of Tunisia and in other listed north of Tunis, this movement seeks to impose a strong return to the Islamic identity without nuances ignoring the socio-cultural achievements and political Tunisians during the six centuries that followed the end of the Muslim presence in Spain with the fall of "Granada".

These movements want to invest the political field by using catchy slogans "Caliphate" as the only valid and able to plan them according to social justice reign on earth.

Written by : Souhail Arfaoui