Hundreds of radical Islamists demanding segregated classes and the right for women to wear full-face veils at university clashed with secular students near Tunis on Tuesday in the latest flare-up between the two camps.
Since Tunisia ousted its leader in the first “Arab Spring” revolution this year, the country has seen mounting tensions between secularists who have traditionally held power and Islamists whose influence has been growing.
What began as a protest by Islamist students at Manouba University near Tunis soon degenerated into fighting, said witnesses. The clash came a day after Islamists besieged a building at the same university, holding students and professors hostage in a protest over the same issue. [Reuters Blogs - FaithWorld] Read more
