Published on The Tunis Times, by Staff, Jan 23, 2014.
The debate over the role of religion in the constitution has ignited an ideologically-heated dispute between the secularists and the Islamists. Ultimately, the two sides of the conflict, whether public or parliamentary, argued that Article 6 – the heart of this debate- should be worded otherwise to maintain balance. The article guarantees freedom of belief and conscience and the free exercise of religion and bans apostasy and incitement on violence. Continuer la lecture de « Apostasy ban overshadows political debate in Tunisia »