{"id":7873,"date":"2012-10-14T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2012-10-14T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:10:12","slug":"the-line-still-holds-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-line-still-holds-just\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line Still Holds (Just)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tunisia.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tunisia-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tunisia\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7874\" \/><\/a>Cross-posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/330375\/line-still-holds-just-andrew-stuttaford\">Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/tunisia\/9605965\/Tunisia-plans-to-outlaw-blasphemy-dropped.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A key proposal by Tunisia\u2019s ruling Islamist party to outlaw blasphemy in the new constitution, stoking fears of creeping Islamisation, is to be dropped from the final text. The agreement to drop the clause follows negotiations between the three parties in the ruling coalition and must still be approved by the committees drafting the constitution, due to be debated by parliament next month.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after President Moncef Marzouki warned that radical Islamist militants pose a \u201cgreat danger\u201d to the Maghreb region, and following a wave of violent attacks \u2013 blamed on Salafists \u2013 on targets ranging from works of art to the US embassy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will certainly be no criminalisation,\u201d said speaker Mustapha Ben Jafaar, the 72-year-old speaker of the National Constituent Assembly, said to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not because we have agreed to (allow) attacks on the sacred, but because the sacred is something very, very difficult to define. Its boundaries are blurred and one could interpret it in one way or another, in an exaggerated way,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to criminalise attacks on religious values sparked an outcry when it was first announced by the Islamists in July, with the media and civil society groups warning that it would result in new restrictions on freedom of expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner: The Daily Telegraph reports: A key proposal by Tunisia\u2019s ruling Islamist party to outlaw blasphemy in the new constitution, stoking fears of creeping Islamisation, is to be dropped from the final text. The agreement to drop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-line-still-holds-just\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[51,50,737,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7875,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}