{"id":5027,"date":"2023-03-31T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2023-03-31T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:33:27","slug":"tunisias-poisonous-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/03\/31\/tunisias-poisonous-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s &#8220;poisonous dictatorship&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/31\/dictatorship-tunisia-kais-saied-sihem-bensedrine\">Sihem Bensedrine, Guardian, Opinion, A poisonous dictatorship has been built in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab spring, 31 March 2023<\/a>  &#8220;A poisonous atmosphere has descended on Tunisia. On 21 February, at a national security council meeting, [President Kais] Saied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/23\/tunisia-president-kais-saied-calls-for-halt-to-sub-saharan-immigration-amid-crackdown-on-opposition\">launched a tirade<\/a> against black immigrants, whom he blamed for \u201cviolence, crimes and unacceptable acts\u201d. He claimed that \u201csuccessive waves of illegal immigration\u201d were part of a secret plot to dilute Tunisia\u2019s Arab-Islamic identity into \u201ca purely African country\u201d.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sihem Bensedrine, Guardian, Opinion, A poisonous dictatorship has been built in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab spring, 31 March 2023 &#8220;A poisonous atmosphere has descended on Tunisia. On 21 February, at a national security council meeting, [President Kais] Saied launched a tirade against black immigrants, whom he blamed for \u201cviolence, crimes and unacceptable acts\u201d&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunisia","tag-tunisia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","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=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}