Tunisia's education minister ordered an investigation into this video, Harlem Shake a la Tunisienne. Some comments on Facebook say that the government is busy investigating an innocuous video while the murder of opposition figure Chokri Belaid has yet to be probed. This Kapitalis editorial says that "the minister
never dared lift a finger when schools were attacked by religious extremists".
Education Minister Abdellatif Abid is from Ettakatol, Mustapha Ben Jaafar's party that supported ex-premier Hamadi Jebali's initiative for a technocratic government.
Surprisingly, Ennahda MP Souad Abderrahim admitted that her son was among the participants in the collective dance. He was actually one of those dancers in underwear to the right. Abderrahim raised an uproar in November 2011 when she claimed that single mothers are "a disgrace for Tunisia" and "do not have the right to exist". Back then, she told Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya: “I am ashamed of Arab and Muslim countries that try to make excuses for people who have sinned.”
Now, this very same woman is defending freedom of expression and professes tolerance and open-mindedness.
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