Under the provocative slogan “The failure of the modern state and the inevitability of the state of the caliphate”, the extremist religious party Hizb Ut-Tahrir held, on Saturday April 26, its annual congress in Tunisia.
The National Observatory for the Defense of the Civil character of the State (ONDCCE) returned to this case recalling its unwavering attachment to freedom of thought, expression and organization, it insists on a fundamental principle: the consolidation of a true civil status based on modernity, citizenship and respect for republican institutions.
However, as the observatory recalls, Hizb Utahrir does not recognize neither the sovereignty of the Tunisian state, nor its borders, or even its flag, sacred symbol for which so many martyrs have given their lives. This radical party, on the contrary, aims to replace the national emblem with a black standard with well -known ideological connotations.
During this congress, one of its members, Mohamed Bouaziz, said that the three successive constitutions of Tunisia – including that of 2022 – would only be products from “colonial thought”, thus rejecting the entire legal and republican framework of the country.
To support his speech, Bouaziz went so far as to quote the alleged “increase in celibacy” (which he figures at 65%) as a sign of “the failure of the modern state”.
A reading at least biased, because it obscures the fact that gender parity is today established in Tunisia and that the decline in the age of marriage is above all the indicator of a changing society: young people, men and women, now favor studies, professional stability and conscious construction of their future, far from early marriages formerly imposed.
