“One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal threats by the government.”

Tunisia has a history of secularism, but “following the revolution of early 2011, more room was created for religious political parties to operate in the country”. The al-Nahda movement won 41% of seats in the Constituent Assembly in that year, and its representatives “proposed a constitutional provision declaring Islam to be the main source of legislation with the goal of unifying all Tunisian legislation under the rule of Islamic law.” Under the current government administration, the ills of increasing Islamic sharia influence is evident, with the LGBTQ community losing rights. Further loss of rights and human rights abuses is inevitable as any country becomes more sharia adherent.

Recently in Brunei, death by stoning of gays was implemented under the sharia as its leader Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah called for “stronger Islamic teachings.”

“Tunisia invokes sharia law in bid to shut down LGBT rights group”, by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian (Thanks to The Religion of Peace), April 30, 2019: