Tunisia politician stands up, screams 'God is great' for several minutes, then faints
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[url]http://www.tunisia-live.net/2014/01/22/assembly-floor-erupts-over-constitution-article-on-religion/[/url]
[quote]For the second night in a row, Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) session ended in shouting and confusion.
On Tuesday night, NCA member Ibrahim Kassas stood from his chair and repeatedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”) before fainting.
Kassas, seen screaming in the video above, declined to comment to Tunisia Live.
Debate on Tuesday night centered around Article 6, which addresses the assembly’s most controversial issue: the relationship between religion and the state. The measure was passed earlier this month by a large margin.
Article 6, as passed originally, says the “state protects religion, guarantees freedom of belief and conscience and religious practices, protects sanctities, and ensures the neutrality of mosques and places of worship from partisan instrumentalisation.” ([url=http://www.tunisia-live.net/2014/01/21/tunisias-draft-constitution-an-english-translation/]Click for a full English translation of the draft constitution[/url])
The text was then amended, however, on January 5 after a dispute between leftist member Monji Rahoui and Islamist member Habib Ellouz, with the latter calling Rahoui an “enemy of Islam” while on a radio program. Rahoui claimed the remark caused him to receive death threats. The assembly then amended Article 6 to include a ban on takfir, or accusing someone of being a nonbeliever, and as well as a ban on “inciting violence.”
The amendment was condemned by many religious conservatives, who sought a similar ban on insulting religion, moving lawmakers last night to suggest a compromise amendment, which would commit the state to “protect sanctities from all assault and ban takfir and incitement to hatred and violence.”
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Video which unfortunately does not show the fainting part:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPPbHqpQR8[/media]
That is an eerie video
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[quote]
ALLAH HU AKBAR
is literally translated as
GOD IS GREATER
not god is great, the crucial word is greater
it means whatever happens on this world by anyone's or anything's hand, there is always the greater influence of god
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What's with the guy wearing a scarf with the Palestinian flag on one end and the Turkish flag on the other?
[QUOTE=Svinnik;43636560]What's with the guy wearing a scarf with the Palestinian flag on one end and the Turkish flag on the other?[/QUOTE]
It's the Palestinian flag and the Tunisian flag
[Media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=3NMGsRmZTFQ[/media]
So basically the equivalent of this?
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43635305]and people say rob ford is bad[/QUOTE]
rob ford for prime minister
Probably fainted from hyperventilation induced oxygen imbalance. If you breathe too much while not performing enough physical activity, your oxygen level will surge and the body will collapse from the shock of it.
how incredibly annoying it must be to have a debate with someone like that!
Reminds me of that typographer in US Congress who had a breakdown and started screaming about God until she was removed by security.
Must be an election year.
It's orientation day!
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43635305]and people say rob ford is bad[/QUOTE]
Rob Ford is the Mayor of the largest city in Canada. Nothing what a North African parliamentarian does will compare to the severity-by-extension of Ford's actions as Mayor.
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