INQUIRER.net: ‘Harlem Shake’ rattles Islamists in Tunisia

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'Harlem Shake' rattles Islamists in Tunisia Feb 28th 2013, 04:23 TUNIS - An electro-dance craze that has gone viral on the Internet is sparking insults and fisticuffs in Tunisia, where secularists and Islamists are battling for the soul of a nation widely viewed as the Arab world's most progressive.   The social divide in this small North African country was sharply punctuated on February 6 when a lone hooded gunmen shot to death leading leftist opposition figure Chokri Belaid outside his home in the capital.   The authorities say the still-fugitive assassin was a Salafist Muslim, a follower of a puritanical form of Islam with numerous adherents in Tunisia and whose movement is blamed for a growing wave of violence around the cou... Keep on reading: ‘Harlem Shake’ rattles Islamists in Tunisia Media files: harlem-shake.jpg (image/jpeg)

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