On Monday 7th December, front-runner for the US Republican presidential candidacy, Donald Trump called for a, “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the US.”
It was exactly 5 years ago in December 2010 that Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight outside the local municipal building, in an act of protest, after being humiliated by local police officers for not having a permit to run a stall .