Racists

[ElHenni]

Has anyone had to make that aweful journey to the British consulate in Tunisia to get a Visa for the UK.

You have to travel all the way across, then you have to que from 1 or 2am until 8am and they only let about 7 or 8 in and tell teh rest to come the next morning.

When you get in your very very very lucky if you get a Tunisian translator who can actually translate what you are saying from Arabic to English, usually they kinda mix up half of what you say and make up the rest.

Then if your really lucky when you queing outside you get some of our lovely Tunisian brothers and sisters throwing beautiful compliments to us like ''go back to where you came from'' ''We dont want you here'' ''You bunch of terrorists''.

Wallahi I pray that the British move back to Algiers for all of their applications and not just the limited amout they do.

I am 100% with Boumedien, lets turn the lights and electricity out on those Tunisians if they dont stop this racism.

Maybe they are jelious that we havnt sold our souls to the miniskirt and beer bottle, maybe they respect the fact that most of Algeriens still actually RESPECT WOMEN!!!

Right thats my rant over.

[ElHenni]

I have never in my life met a people which has such a distinction between its Youth and elderly - The Tunisian elders are so nice and such beautiful people with wonderful hearts but the Youth... no comment

[k_s]

Then if your really lucky when you queing outside you get some of our lovely Tunisian brothers and sisters throwing beautiful compliments to us like ''go back to where you came from'' ''We dont want you here'' ''You bunch of terrorists''.

That was Tunisian trumps generalising over Algeria by our trumps

[TonyStarks]

ElHenni: You might be frustrated but like k_s said, you're just generalizing about Tunisians. There's good and there's bad. You dont think Algerians can get a little rowdy towards foreigners?

[ElHenni]

OK I wont generalise but I will only talk about what I and my friends have experienced.

I have been 8 times to Tunisia and not once have me and my family not been insulted.

Not once have I not witnessed droves of young Tunisians swarming Muslim and non-Muslim women and even grabbing them and harrassing them.

I have come across many female classmates etc... who have all been to Tunisia and not one has said they would like to return to Tunisia, in fact they have all, every single one, commented that they were disgusted at the men there and how they harass women.

I have visited the British consulate in Tunisia twice and both times groups of Tunisians would walk by us in the que and throw abuse at us.

I have met many many wonderful Tunisians but they have all been old and of those people as said above they are the best people I have met. I have however never met a nice young male Tunisian except for 1.

I flew to Algeria twice through Tunisia and had to stop over for one night and as per usual they placed me and the other Algerians in a seperate hotel to everyone else and were extremely rude to us. It reached a point where I had to go and represent all of the Algerians waiting (men, women, children) and speak in English with my British passport in hand just so that me and the other Algerians could get what we actually were entitled to.

Each time I travelled to Tunisia it seemed to me that it was the Algerians who were being pulled to the side and questioned at the airport including myself until I pulled out my lovely British Passport.

I am sorry but of the six times I have been there three times I have been infights defending the ladies in my family who are all Mutahajibaat and were saying absolutely nothing but were verbally assaulted by Tunisian youth.

I encourage you to speak with any western lady who has been to Tunisia on holiday and ask them about how they found it and how the Tunisian youth were with them.

The Egyptians think that Sharm el-Sheikh is bad but its heaven compared to Tunisia.

My reasons for visiting Tunisia 8 times were all related to visa applications or our area's being too dangerous so I would have to meet some of my family in Tunisia.

Maybe its cus im used to the ways of Djelfa where if you even go close to a woman who is nothing to do with you then you are beaten down and shamed infront of everybody, I dont know. But I cannot retract my previous statement.

Elderly people are of the nicest I have ever met and may Allah(swt) bless them.

A great DEAL OF The male youth are of the most filthiest I have met and may Allah(swt) save them.

The young ladies who knows, I dont go round meeting young ladies and getting to know them so maybe someone else here would know better.

We may have our own problems in Algeria but for me it doesnt seem to be MOST Algerians whereas in Tunisia it is MOST of the male youth.

and I dont blame the youth but its a souless and pitiful Governments fault who sold their soul to something far from what they actually are or were.

[k_s]

Well I think if you had no beard and if your sisters were not hijabis then you would get significantly less bad treatment from those trumps.
The reason you said it, no police man is going to come and defend you given their government policies in regard to freedom of "wearware".

I know some people who visited tunisian countryside and said there were much more decent people.
I also know that a lot of Algerians go tu Tunisia and harass western women (yes all those drunken mid age fatty english women).

[ElHenni]

Well I say shame on all of them.

Its just very difficult when you are in a que for so long and you have ladies next to you who have probably travelled for hours to get there and are in their 40's and 50's and 60's and people start saying go back to where you came from you terrorists... and you know there is absolutely nothing u can say to them and the worst thing is they know it as well and play on that.

Well I could say what I wanted cus I had my GOLDEN BRITISH PASSPORT with me but other young Algerian men coudnt, they had to sut there and take the abuse.

I am not saying all are bad or even the mojority but rather that a much higher percentage than you would find in other countries, much higher.