{"id":4475,"date":"2023-03-13T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:11:04","slug":"tunisia-and-anti-migrant-sentiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/03\/13\/tunisia-and-anti-migrant-sentiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia and anti-migrant sentiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These issues are also playing out online.  Hopefully this is being captured by researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/13\/tunisia-anti-migrant-sentiments-president-saied?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Nesrine Malik, Opinion Piece, The Guardian, As the disturbing scenes in Tunisia show, anti-migrant sentiments have gone global, 13 March 2023<\/a>  &#8220;\u201cThe president of the country is basically crafting state policy based on conspiracy theories sloshing around dark corners of the internet basement,\u201d Monica Marks, , a professor of Middle East studies and an expert on Tunisia, tells me. The gist of his speech was essentially the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/17\/great-replacement-theory-explainer\">great replacement<\/a>\u201d theory, but with a local twist. In this version of the myth, Europeans are using black people from sub-Saharan Africa to make Tunisia a black-inhabited settler colony.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These issues are also playing out online. Hopefully this is being captured by researchers. Nesrine Malik, Opinion Piece, The Guardian, As the disturbing scenes in Tunisia show, anti-migrant sentiments have gone global, 13 March 2023 &#8220;\u201cThe president of the country is basically crafting state policy based on conspiracy theories sloshing around dark corners of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,20,80,79],"tags":[82,83],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-migration","category-politics","category-racism","category-tunisia","tag-migration","tag-tunisia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}