Manouba University, Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began last year....

TUNIS- A Tunisian minister on Thursday condemned a
university's ban on full-face veils that sparked a weeks-long sit-in by
conservative Muslims, saying they had completely mishandled the issue.The
three-month conflict at Manouba University, about 25 kilometres (15
miles) from Tunis, should never have happened, Moncef Ben Salem,
minister for higher education, told reporters at the presidential
palace. [...]Salem was speaking a day after competing demonstrations by
hundreds of Islamists students, known as Salafis, and members of the
national students’ union erupted into violence.Salafis
tore down the national flag flying at the university entrance and
replaced it with the black flag of the ultra-conservative Salafist
Muslims."It's an unacceptable gesture," said Salem.