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The dissemination of ‘ibPersepolis’/ib in Tunisia as a blasphemy: How can we overcome a controversy that excludes any “third party guarantor”?

Abstract

Cases of blasphemy arise when defenders of any religious sacredness confront those of public liberties. “Third parties” cannot stay apart from such polemics. They are required to enrol, and both to recognize the “religious” character of the representation or event denounced as sacrilegious, and to rule on the legitimacy of the alleged profanation. This article recounts such a process basing on the protests that raised after a Tunisian television channel broadcasted the animation film Persepolis. Foreign institutions, French and Iranian, immediately focussed on the religious issue of God’s figuration, starting a polemic that will finally polarize the Tunisian community during criminal proceedings. The trial, far from establishing a “third party guarantor”, will become the arena for a confrontation between two antagonistic conceptions of the Tunisian identity.

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