Economics
Sword-Bearing Islamist Signals Peril for Arab Democracies
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Days after publishing an article on Salafi Muslims displacing moderate clerics from hundreds of Tunisia’s mosques, Walid Mejri found a sword against his neck.
Stopped on the street by religious extremists in Ghardimaou, 180 kilometers (112 miles) north of Tunis, he was accused of “apostasy and atheism, fighting against Islam and sowing discord among them,” Mejri, a writer and journalist recalled in an interview.