Tunisia blasphemy case: Religious party flays attack on its chief

Tunisia’s religious party Ennahda condemns attack on home of television chief over alleged blasphemy.

TUNIS: Tunisia’s religious party Ennahda, tipped to dominate elections later this month, on Saturday condemned an attack on the home of a television chief over alleged blasphemy, denying any role in it.

But Ennahda party chief Rached Ghannouchi equally accused the Nessma television station of “provocation” for airing a film that depicts an image of God as an old, bearded man. “I support the right of the Tunisian people to denounce this attack on their religion,” Ghannouchi said from Paris, insisting that his party is against “all forms of violence.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2011.