Islamist Clashes In Tunisia

Reuters reports that in Tunisia yesterday police used teargas to disperse hundreds of Islamist demonstrators.  The demonstrators attacked police with stones, knives and batons as they protested a university's enforcement of a government ruling that bars enrolling women who wear the niqab. Earlier Islamists protested outside Nessma television, objecting to its broadcasting "Persepolis," the story of a woman growing up under strict religious rule in Iran. Demonstrators say the show denigrated Islam. The demonstrations come as the Oct. 23 elections for an assembly to draft a new constitution approach. Secularists are concerned that the Islamist Ennahda party is likely to receive the largest number of votes.