Anti Islam Movie Protest At Tunisia

Tunisians Unite Against Video But Differ on Violent Response

Tunisian protesters break into the US embassy in Tunis during a protest against a film mocking Islam on September 14, 2012. The demonstrators, acting aggressively, managed to clamber over one of the walls round the mission, near the car park where several vehicles had been set ablaze, the photographer said. (photo by FETHI BELAID/AFP/GettyImages) 

 

TUNIS – As images of the black smoke rising from the US embassy and news of deaths circulated in the Tunisian media, shock and dismay spread with them.

Amina el-Mahdhi, a young woman in her twenties who works for the International Federation of Human Rights, was driving down the highway that connects downtown Tunis to the suburb of La Goulette when she first saw the column of smoke and heard on the radio where it was coming from.
“I had been looking at the beautiful landscape, all the beauty that was around me, and I saw the smoke, and I thought, ‘This is not us, this is not my country.’ I was shocked,” said el-Mahdhi, “It’s not us. We’re tolerant. We’re not violent.”

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