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Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid announced a security clampdown on mosques Saturday after a terrorist attack at a beachside hotel killed 38 people, including eight British tourists.聽

The tragedy follows a mass shooting earlier this year, in which two gunmen stormed the country鈥檚 Bardo National Museum and killed 22 people. The Islamic State (aka ISIS) claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Prime Minister聽Essid some mosques of 鈥渟preading venom鈥� and said about 80 will be shut down within a week, reports the BBC. He also the examination of funding of organizations suspected of promoting radicalism.

As part of , Army reservists will be deployed to Tunisia's archaeological sites and resorts. 聽 聽 聽 聽

Essid the aim of extremists was to damage the economy and derail Tunisia鈥檚 democratic transition.聽Revenue from the tourism industry comprises of the nation鈥檚 GDP.

According to , many Tunisians are asking why stricter security measures had not already been put in place following the museum attack in March.

How effective is Tunisia's move to close mosques likely to be?

Other nations, including Egypt, have taken similar steps. But most experts say that simply muzzling extremist imams isn't enough. Closing mosques must be part of a broader strategy that may include such steps as enlisting the help of Muslims to reject violence and alert authorities to those who would kill innocents in the name of Islam.

This year, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi closed down 27,000 mosques, upholding the Ministry of Religious Endowments鈥� 2013 decision to eliminate neighborhood mosques of less than 80 square meters.

According to , Sisi thought unsupervised Mosques run by the Muslim Brotherhood had allowed the group to thrive and promote extremism.

who believed mosques outside the state鈥檚 purview threatened national security welcomed the measure. But some said that it was short-sighted because larger existing mosques couldn鈥檛 accommodate additional Friday worshippers.聽

Egypt also issued about to Salafists, who promised not to use Friday prayers for political purposes. A follow-up was formed to oversee new Imams during Friday prayers and cancel their permits should they divert from government regulations.

, a research fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, said such an expansive law would be difficult to enforce.

鈥淵ou will have a parallel religious sphere where people don鈥檛 go to the mosques because they think the mosques only tell us what the state would like us to hear, so they go to private meetings,鈥� . 鈥淥nce you have this parallel market, radical ideas can spread much more quickly, because you have no control.鈥�

Earlier this year, British Prime Minister David Cameron, also revealed new anti-terrorism measures, which included state powers to close mosques used by extremists.

On Wednesday, the French parliament adopted a controversial surveillance law to seek out terrorism suspects.

The American Civil Liberties Union 鈥渨earing traditional Islamic clothing [and] growing a beard,鈥� abstaining from alcohol鈥� and 鈥渂ecoming involved in social activism鈥� is enough to warrant surveillance in the US.

This government response, the ACLU finds, leads to stigma and community fear.

The argues the global effort to end terrorism must work with Muslims to 鈥渃onvince potential terrorists that Islam requires them to reject terrorism.鈥澛營t also highlights , which include Muslim organizations treating violent extremism as a public health matter.

, a program by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, relies on prevention through healthy communities, intervention, similar to counseling, and notifying law enforcement 鈥� should the first two options fail.聽