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Fri, Oct 7 2011 Protests spread to more than a dozen cities Thu, Oct 6 2011 More than 700 arrested in Wall Street protest Sun, Oct 2 2011 Analysis & Opinion Injustice fuels the mob Occupy Wall Street Related Topics World » Tunisia » By Tarek Amara TUNIS | Sun Oct 9, 2011 11:47am EDT TUNIS (Reuters) - Police in Tunis used tear gas on Sunday to try to disperse hundreds of Islamists who were attacking them with stones, knives and batons, the biggest clashes over religion in the Tunisian capital for several years. Tension is mounting before an election later this month, the first since a revolution toppled Tunisia's autocratic leader, that will pit Islamists free to express their beliefs for the first time against secularists who say their liberal values are under threat. The Islamists were protesting against a ban on women who wear the niqab, or full-face veil, enrolling in university, and the decision by a Tunisian television station to broadcast animated film "Persepolis" which they said denigrated Islam. Several hundred protesters gathered outside the main university campus in Tunis, and from there went to the working-class neighborhood of Jebel El-Ahmar, north of the city center, where the clashes with police broke out. About 100 police vehicles, and several hundred police officers wearing anti-riot gear were deployed. A Reuters reporter said he saw officers running to escape the protesters. The mainly young protesters blocked a main road and threw stones at vehicles trying to get through. They shouted: "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) and "We will die for Allah!" Tunisians will vote in an October 23 election for an assembly to draft a new constitution. The Islamist Ennahda party is expected to win the biggest share of the vote, alarming secularists who have traditionally dominated the ruling elite. BAD SIGN FOR ELECTION The clashes on Sunday are "a very bad sign for the holding of democratic elections," analyst Salah Attya told Reuters. "This isn't a good atmosphere ... There are certain sides or parties which are pushing for an explosion of the situation before the election," he said. Ennahda, a moderate group which says it respects women's rights and does not want to impose its religious values on Tunisian society, condemned Sunday's violence. "I am against infringing on the sentiments of people and their religion, but that does not stop us being completely against violence, whatever form it is in," said an Ennahda official, Ali Larayad. "We are in favor of peaceful protests to demand rights and on principle we condemn violence." Tunisia became the birthplace of the "Arab Spring" uprisings in January when mass protests ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The new caretaker government scheduled democratic elections and allowed Islamists to run for the first time, unleashing a tense debate about the role of religion in society. The latest round of unrest broke out on Saturday when Islamists tried to storm a university in Sousse, about 150 km (93 miles) south of Tunis. Administrators, enforcing a government ruling, had refused to enroll a woman wearing the niqab. Earlier on Sunday, Islamists protested outside the offices of the private Nessma television station in the center of Tunis. The station angered some conservative Muslims by broadcasting "Persepolis," an award-winning film based on an account of a woman growing up in Iran under strict religious rule following the 1979 Islamic revolution. 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