17 December 2011

Never Mind "Occupy." The New Solution Is Sharia

First it was WikiLeaks, and Anonymous. Then came Occupy. Now the movement to watch is Shariah4, as in Shariah4France, Shariah4America, or Shariah4Belgium, members of which threatened earlier this month to break the neck of Muslim activist Irshad Manji during a debate in Amsterdam.

Their numbers are growing, and their voices are increasingly being heard in the media around the world. But who are they, exactly? Do they comprise a real movement, even a real threat – or are they just a bunch of religious nuts carrying on as religious nuts often tend to do? [Forbes.com] Read more [via National Secular Society]