Topless Tunisian Activist Amina Tyler: 'Femen Are True Feminists But They Have Insulted Muslims'

[Catherina]

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Amina at no time condemned the topless protests. She condemned one particular act that took place at a Paris mosque. Amina is under the mistaken impression that they burned the flag of Islam thus insulting all Muslims. That did not happen. They burned the black flag of the Salafists and jihadists who are trying to repress Tunisian (and Egyptian etc) women.

This is the Black Salafist flag in question




Here's my hasty translation:


She thanks everyone who has supported her. She can't go back to school except possibly to a private school but she doubts they'd accept her too. She has to leave Tunisia because she received a lot of death threats and she's afraid for her life and her family's life, especially in view of the many rumors about what the Salafists and Islamists plan to do to her. She received threats on the phone and on Facebook "you're going to die, we're going to throw acid on your face, things like that".

- When you disappeared, People say that you were kidnapped.

Euh, my family found me in a cafe, they brought me home, my cousin broke my phone, euh he hit me and afterwards I stayed with my family and afterwards we left for another city in Tunisia.

- Were you forced (required) to stay with your family?

Yes of course.

- Did you want to?

No. (pause) No, I don't want to stay in Tunisia in general. I'm going to leave Tunisia, hoping... I hope I can leave Tunisia and then I'm going to leave my family and going to leave all these threats. I'm going to live in a boarding school I hope. That's it.

- Do you still support FEMEN?

Yes.

- Why?

Because I encourage their reactions. Ever since I saw the first photos of them on Facebook up until now. But there was something they did yesterday, I heard about it, I didn't see it, that they burned the flag of Islam in front of a Paris Mosque. I'm against that because it will cause problems for me because they wrote "Amina" on their body... thus everyone will think I encouraged them to do that. It's not acceptable to react in such a radical way, with something so.... because that didn't insult the certain tyope of Muslims who are extremists but all Muslims so that's not acceptable.

I hope I can continue my studies overseas, become a journalist, something like that...

- You will support FEMEN whatever happens?

Yes, even whhen I'm 80 years old because they're true feminists.
I'm very lucky because other fathers would have killed their daughters over such an act but my father was open enough with me. Well he has every right to think what he wants. He still thinks I'm a little girl, that I go watch cartoons and then go out with my female cousin to do whatever with my but I grew up and he'll see it someday.


Her father then explains that they're afraid for her because of the threats circulating on Facebook, that they support women's rights and freedom of women but that the thing that happened at the Paris Mosque wasn't good because they're a very Muslim family... but an image that can shock society is an image that also scares you, that hurts us. During these days she hasn't been smiling at all, it's only now that she's starting to smile. She's very cute when she does.

Do you want to marry me off Amina asks