Tunisian MP probed over beheading post

Tunisia has launched an investigation against an MP who allegedly hailed the murder of a teacher in Paris last week. Deutsche Welle reports that history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday after recently holding a class on freedom of speech in which he showed caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The Public Prosecutors Office in Tunis said the independent MP Rached Khiari's social media comments are being investigated. Islamic tradition forbids any images depicting the religion's prophets. Khiari posted a Facebook comment saying ‘to insult the messenger of God is the greatest crime’. He wrote ‘whoever committed it had to bear its consequences’. Following the launch of the investigation, he posted that the prophet ‘is more important and greater than fame, Parliament, politics and the whole world’. Deputy Public Prosecutor Mohsen Dali said the comments could be classified as ‘a terrorist crime’. Tunisia's anti-terrorism laws prohibit acts that expressly praise and glorify atrocities.