there is a lot in sharia. all the ills of muslim society have a lot in sharia that perpetuates it and makes it survive. the law that allows honor killings, quote, the killer of an adulterer will not be punished, will not be punished. they consider a girl or a woman who has sexual misbehavior has to be killed. usually -- it is always a woman. another law that encourages honor killing is, quote, parents and grandparents will not be prosecuted for killing their offspring. it is a law. i am not saying they want to kill their offspring. take it from the sharia book and say nonie says muslims kill their children. are encouraged to kill their children. i am telling you some laws in sharia books that make it fair to kill their children who have committed sexual crimes. beautiful girls -- having american boys. he is in egypt. i don't think the egyptian government will even acknowledge he exists. america has to extradite him. there are 500 people that are murdered in the muslim world reported that are much more than and

of sharia. for example, the sharia encourages people to express their views and engage in dialogue, and encourages differences. as we know, we have several islamic traditions that interpreted the sayings of the prophet. and we are in agreement, therefore, there's no justification over differences of our understanding of the sharia. so once again, libyan society is all religious. they're all muslims. and second of all, we don't have the same kind of polarization. almost all libyans are sunnis. old people want the islamic sharia to be their defense. and upon our first celebration of celebrations after the revolution, people demanded that sharia be adopted as the main source of legislation. once again, i would like to stress that the intent of the sharia was important. >> i hear a common element. that is what i would say is the supreme self-confidence. in two ways. you're all confidence that you represent the islamic and the cultural values in some ways the conservative values, perhaps, although yo

under sharia. the fight all people until they become muslim. it is a commandment. this is the job. you have to fight a muslim country. when the muslims are in there is another law that says when the muslims are in their own country in which case jihadists a communal obligation among the muslims each year you have to go to jihad and will provide the equipment the soldier and a jihadi to the soldier has himself performed jihad. so the people that go to the mosques and give money for hezbollah and the muslim brotherhood, all these people are doing jihad in their own way. with the west needs to understand is that the she had a doctrine of invading in a muslim country challenges the sovereignty of the non-muslim countries. it is the law that forces itself not only on the people but on the muslim head of state on the constitution of every muslim country that he has to do jihad against the country's never treat them as equals, never before and the west. if it is any wonder why the muslim leaders don't wan

the sharia is regulated.ere are blasphemy laws, which execute people if they touch the word of islam. so in this comes a catastrophe. religion becomes the state. islam has the role of the state. and has brought in a legal system to rule by and to judge by. and they have a military institution called sharia's. but they should open themselves to [inaudible]. but no, you cannot decide because it is an islamic state. they are after me wherever i go. they are highly organized, and i am just one person. here i am being sought because i am exposing all these laws, and all these laws come if you really investigate, are to blame for a lot of the behavior and conditions that are making it what it is today. here we are. we cannot speak about islamic state, we cannot speak about -- some muslim countries are asking some united nations -- under the pretenses of religion. i'm not talking about religion. i could care less about any religion. but, if religion extends itself so much that it becomes the state and a legal system

the sharia is regulated.ere are blasphemy laws, which execute people if they touch the word of islam. so in this comes a catastrophe. religion becomes the state. islam has the role of the state. and has brought in a legal system to rule by and to judge by. and they have a military institution called sharia's. but they should open themselves to [inaudible]. but no, you cannot decide because it is an islamic state. they are after me wherever i go. they are highly organized, and i am just one person. here i am being sought because i am exposing all these laws, and all these laws come if you really investigate, are to blame for a lot of the behavior and conditions that are making it what it is today. here we are. we cannot speak about islamic state, we cannot speak about -- some muslim countries are asking some united nations -- under the pretenses of religion. i'm not talking about religion. i could care less about any religion. but, if religion extends itself so much that it becomes the state and a legal system

will sharia be the only source of legislation, and would sharia laws be imposed on all citizens. and if an islamic state, as jessica said, through persuasion, are citizens allowed to change their minds and vote islamists out, or would it be a one-way street. these questions and more i think are on everybody's minds. the islamists are being held to a high standard as they appear to be winning in all arab countries. i think these questions also need to be asked from secular parties as well as islamist parties. converting to pluralism is something it is hoped would be a trait of all parties in the arab world working for pluralism and not just expected of islamist parties. so what i thought we would do is start with the countries that have gone -- undergone transitions. we start with tunisia, because it was the first. we move the egypt and see what experience the egyptians have. and then we talk about morocco and jordan as two countries, two monarchies that have not undergone transitions and are trying to put in a process from above. and i thought what we would do is i would ask ques

that's what we are sharia law. sharia law is the interpretation of the koran. not by me, but by the seven great men who wrote the sharia. >> why would someone tell the first generation u.s. muslim when she is born as a muslim and becomes more educated and finds out about these issues and ask as she can be a muslim but not how to practice those issues? >> she can't practice it because it's illegal in america. >> how do they feel towards each other? >> they don't come most don't teach sharia. i was a muslim. it's very discouraged in egypt to interpret or ask questions, or even read the sharia. very discouraged. he doesn't anybody dares to start asking questions and a trip of them, the first thing they tell them is, who gave you the authority? how dare you comment on the sharia. you are not achieve. i was thrown back. when i wrote my book about sharia, i really was totally ignorant about sharia. i have to study for a year and a half, and i had somebody to explain to me, a sharia expert, because i didn't want to rely completely on myself. i read everything. my job

the two important matters you raised are sharia and jihad. i strongly encourage a dialogue around this because very important. i would like to encourage the muslims among you is to engage in a dialogue with nonmuslim friends within the american society that we can come to understand the sharia. sharia is the word that is not even in english because once it is translated into english it's am buying ya. sharia means legal law. we're ruled by law. we have to have a law. you call it islamic, you call it secular, you call it this, you call it that. it is a different law. i emphasize that it is different. and it has been there for 1400 years ago. it was tried sometimes it succeeded produced a great civilization. sometimes it failed. the people failed to utilize it to produce a great civilization. it's human experience of understanding a divine text. it can produce the best alternatives. sometimes it does not produce the best alternatives. concerning jihad the same thing. what does jihad mean. just take it out of the arabic and give it the english t

how do you conceive of the relationship not between the sharia and the constitution, but the sharia and ordinary legislation when you get down to the business of making ordinary laws? >> translator: we have effective participation, very strong participation for all segments of the tunisian population. this is the role of the civil societies. and the movement is trying to build all the decisions on the basis of what they believe are in the best interests of the tunisian people. anything that the tunisian society deems to be the way that represents the biggest islamic nature of the tunisian people, and that would not allow anybody in tunisia to subject to any questioning or any test. but the first open session for the assembly, every current of the parts represented, they will express their vision on this constitution, and the legislation in general. as you mentioned, the constitutional assembly has the authority also. so all the activities move towards dealing toward improving to open the road for investments. all those who express this statement, express the arab-islamic nature. so i do

, sharia means legal law. so we're ruled by law, we have to have a law. you call it islamic, you call it secular, you call it this, you call it that, so it is a different law. i emphasize that it is different, and it has been there for 1400 years ago. it was tried, sometimes it succeeded to produce great civilizations, sometimes it failed. the people failed to utilize it to produce a great civil. civilization. it's human experience of understanding a define text. it can produce the best alternative, sometimes it does not produce the best -- concerning jihad's the same thing. what does jihad mean? take it out of the arabic world, give it the english translation. i am doing jihad under this pressure, under the question. this is an intellectual jihad. [laughter] so jihad means exerting an effort. if you study, you're doing jihad. if you eat, you're doing -- but don't eat too much. [laughter] you're doing jihad too. so jihad is really a whole concept that identifies a muslim's journey towards the universe. towards

the implementation of sharia is not fully mentioned is the goal of jihad. all of this is regularly accessible, among other places in reliance of the traveler, which is actually endorsed by its accuracy. a seat of learning founded in 975 ad that gave us the cleric tried before me who's the spiritual authority behind the sadat and gahanna assassinations and the 9/11 attack. sharia itself has the -- jihad the obligatory on every movement and it is not simply a personal struggle for self-improvement, it is the obligatory struggle to -- truces and treaties as simply temporary -- it her mitts indeed surges the assembly for the sake of islam, the times square bomber was challenged at his sentencing by the judge when he professed hatred for in up sigsz to the united states. he asked didn't you take an oath when you became a citizen of this country? his answer was yes, but i didn't mean it. are there no muslims who are willing to live in peace with their neighbors? of course there are, and many of them resides in the united states as loyal americans. and millions mo

what does islamic sharia offer is? the objective of the sharia. the implication of the sharia rather than the specific [inaudible]. that means democracy, that means freedom, that means the rule of law. [inaudible] how much wartime? >> one minute. >> you have one minute. >> other challenge is? there are many challenges. the military council is a challenge. almost everyone in the world is now -- the military is now giving away from politics. we would like to address the complex. we would like for civilians to be able to control the lives the way they want to [inaudible]. -- as military ruling of the egyptian lives. the presidency, the government, the constitution -- we need to be able to a culture of oppression into a culture of freedom. we need to be able to honor our human dignity, respect our differences -- because we believe that these two principles honor our dignity and respect our differences -- these are indispensable convictions for egyptians, national peace, and world peace. >> thank you. >> thank you very much [applause] >> we moved to th

so far so far as sharia law getting into the basis in decision for the u.s. law, it's happened a couple times. it's been turned around a couple times. there's a famous judge in intellectual who dismissed charges against a defendant because he raped his wife because he thought it was permissible for him to do that under his religion. the judge, said, gee, he practices a different religion and this is the case an dismissed the case. an appellate court turned that around. i don't think we're in any actual danger of having that happen. that's not to say that courts shouldn't be aware of it and deal with it. the problem is when you get enclaves in which not everybody has a choice about what law applies, and if you live in the enclave, the enclave's rules control. that's what's gone on in europe and that is what i think we want to avoid. yes. >> senator schumer has recogniz recognized -- [ inaudible ] -- >> sure. she's a -- she's a superb lawyer and a sepuuperb person. i've worked with her on a number of cases and i think she would make us an excellent addition to

we look at what we call the macasit of the sharia, the objectives of the sharia. what do they lead to? the implication of the sharia rather than the speck dictate, and that means democracy. that means freedom. that means the rule of law. that means the basic universal principle that humanity is yielding for everywhere in the corner of -- how much more time? >> one minute. >> great. thank you. it is good that i can ask bp i still have one minute. our very challenges, there are many challenges. the military council is a challenge. everywhere in the world, almost everywhere in the world the military is getting away from politics. we would like to avoid the military industrial complex phenomena. we would like the civilians to be able to control their lives the way they want. having a military is like having a theocracy but in a secular forward and gain both democracy as well as military ruling of the egyptian lives. then once we're settled with the parliament, the accounts and the presidency, the government on writing the constitution, we have a huge test. the problem

of sharia. for example, the sharia encourages people to express their views and engage in dialect and encourages differences. as we know, we have several islamic traditions that interpreted the sayings of the prophet, therefore there is no justification for differences over our understanding of the sharia. so, once again, libyan society is all religious, they're all muslims and second of all, we don't have the same kind of polarization. almost all libyans are sunnis. all people wanted the sharia to be the reference, and upon our first celebration after the revolution, people demanded that sharia be adopted as the main source of legislation. once again, i would like to stress that the intent is not important -- >> i see a common element, and that i would see would be the supreme self-confidence in two ways. you're all confident that you really represent the islamic and the cultural values and in some ways the socially conservative values perhaps, although you didn't make reference to that, of you

they say they're going to impose sharia law. short while ago we got through to the mayor of timbuktu for a firsthand view of what life is like now in the city. >> the situation in timbuktu is very, very confused. we don't know who is in charge. we don't know who should do what. been to annever administration in timbuktu. everything is confused here today. >> are there troops patrolling the streets? if so, who are dead? -- are they? " there's a group that is controlling the principal office called mma. groupere's another controlling access. so there is the islamist army spread in the city. they're trying to impose control over the city. >> would you go so far as to say that they are the people that you have to answer to? we have heard reports of women having to resort to the appropriate dress, that sharia law is in effect in timbuktu. >> sharia is not totally opposed, but they have imposed on where the hejab according to islamic law. [unintelligible] this is a state of occupation. they have, and occupied the ground. we don't know

sharia in the koran that says you have to pray five times. that makes it sharia. so if somebody has to renounce the sharia, they have to renounce islam. >> after 9/11, to the attitude towards muslims changed or has that been building? >> i think it was starting to build after the fall of the soviet union because we begin to people protesting about who is the next inning the united states will have come and get somebody like huntington, who talked about the clash of civilization, and he went around the whole middle east talking about it. and it brought a response, for example, iran which talked about the dialogue of civilizations, let's get together, let's work together so it's a better world. but 9/11 sharpened this, and i think it's not so much 9/11 as the propaganda that surrounded the war, which was necessary if you're going to energize the american people to support the war, and to have trillions of dollars poured into a war, and thousands of american young people killed in the project. you have to justify it somehow. so i'm not saying -- [inaudible] all i'm s

several presidential candidates in egypt are talking about adopting sharia law.impact would this have on the egyptian landscape? >> it is a good question and fundmental one. egyptians are voting and they are not like the assyrians and there is not a blood bath like in syria. the political landscape is indistinct . several candidates were disqualified. an intelligence man was disqualified and a clever member of the muslim brotherhood. and anti-american was disqualified. his mother was a u.s. citizen as he trashed the united states. and there are others 76 years old and former foreign minister and former head of the ifb. and that's where the landscape is. >> the u.s. is giving over billion in aid following the meeting with the muslim brotherhood and this raises concerns that the u.s. is gambling with members of the brotherhood who copely condemned the u.s.. many say it is a bis mistake that we are doing this, do you agree? >> i am not in a position to judge about that. but one of the questions for the egyptian nation under sharia law might enter into the state law

so far as sharia law getting into the basis for u.s. law, it happened a couple of times and has been turned around. there was a judge in new jersey who dismissed a charge against the person who raped his wife because he thought it was legally permissible under his religion. the judge says he practices a different religion and he dismissed the case. the court turned that around. i do not think we are in danger of having that happen. that is not to say courts should not be aware of it. the problem is when you get in place in which not everybody has a choice about what law applies but the enclave controls. that is what is going on in europe and that is what we want to avoid. >> [inaudible] >> sure, she is a superb lawyer and a super person. i have worked with her on a number of cases and i think she would make an excellent condition. she is a good, common sense lawyer with her head screwed onto the front, which is what you need to a district judge. she is also not easily bored. [laughter] which is also what you need. our work prefer and i

there was a demand to include sharia law.here was another movement to consider that this would divide society. sharia law is kind of confusing and not understood. they up a toll-free number and the main ideas of religion, which is to maintain -- they all hold the idea of freedom of religion, which is to maintain religion. freedom and justice are fundamental pillars of islam. there was one scholar who wrote about sharia and he stated that syria and democracy are fundamental things. -- syria and democracy are fundamental things. -- sharia and democracy are fundamental things. polygamy is looked upon as are unjust. we decided to postpone the issue of sharia in the first pages that were accepted by all of the parties. we have bypassed this debate. we would be supplies in the first chapter to exclude serbia as a fundamental issue. -- exclude sharia as a fundamental issue. there are common denominators. there are many in the republican system. whether it is the relationship between the -- the guarantee of women's rights. we adopted

sharia law is about to be implemented and muslim brotherhood declare israel their enemy.ound like democracy? >> terrorist act on american soil. 9/11 the worst terrorist act occurred under your buddy george bush's watch. >> another thing that george suburb responsible. >> president obama has protected the americans on american soil. he will continue. >> sean: will you acknowledge the muslim brotherhood is a terrorist group? >> yes. >> sean: didn't he say democracy is emerging in egypt? >> its balancing act. >> sean: why should we give money to the muslim brotherhood. >> this isn't about the president's foreign policy, this is about a president of disrespected the office he holds and country which he represents. you can debate all things about foreign policy, president obama has not respected as commander in chief. >> sean: one at a time. >> that doesn't make him a good president. >> sean: here is what i don't understand, i see it differently from the white house. i predicted the muslim brotherhood. how as atalk show host i could see it and president doesn't? and i see the

sharia law is a twist off of the ten commandments. is it possible to take that tradition, that experience, and build saudi arabia has done a good job at it. and they have what most consider good government by the definition of good government. is it possible to use that as the courting point and that experience to help these governments out? >> well, i'm tempted to say if you can get from henry the 8th to barack obama you can do it. but i trip -- my western sensebuilts and senses of man and woman as i see them trip over sharia law. i can't -- yes, i suppose the absolutely objective answer is yes, you can get from there to here and that at some point you know, we didn't give women the vote until about 125 years ago. so yeah i guess they can get from here to that. my question is whether the religion wants them to get from here to there and in burke it's a huge part and in fact part of their tradition with which they struggle. look at turkey. turkey made enormous progress by secularizing its soxt yet i stood here and derailed american so

something that is paramount in their constitutions so to try and ally with someone who is putting sharia law in place especially when it's so antithetical to our u.s. constitution. corneas twirling in the air on that. coming up on r t greece in a rage that after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity marder anger boiled over in riots this week after a retired pharmacist killed himself in front of parliament is noted and said he has no more means to stay alive plus twelve survivors from the two man plane crash that killed thirty one are continuing to get treatment in the hospital as the failure to deal with the plane is called primary cause of tragedy. but first russia's pledge to bring home victor mood after the businessman was said in the u.s. to twenty five years in prison basco says it seems the case is political who was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stressed there was no proof who would have committed any crime but for the sting operation that set up his arrest or he's a saucy target or reports. here is spent by the u.s. to

insisting that although they do want to make sharia law the egyptian constitution law and the the they are saying that there is no fear for for washington or for any western power that they're basically looking to to follow the sharia law as a way to identify wrong from right now of course that is that remains to be seen how that is going to be actually put forth because for example one of the candidates from the salary party already said that he wants to make. you know for example drinking alcohol absolutely illegal even for tourists that he wants to ban swimsuits from being born on the gyptian beaches and he also wants to start gates women from men when it comes to education and to lower the age of consent to about twelve years of age so they're not washington or any other western country. should see the islamist radical islamist as a threat of course remains to be seen until after the elections ok thanks for bringing us this update from cairo where u.s. based alice franks of otto's says america should be teaming up with democratic forces. the white house you know we would hope that

islamist groups have been misrepresented says that they actually seek nothing more than to install a sharia law in place of the constitutional law some of the things which they have proposed to be put forth in egypt as the law is for example banning alcohol for everyone including tourists for arresting tourists for wearing she's the swimsuits for sick or bathing schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to twelve years of age and whether or not these are the types of laws which those who have been out on the streets of cairo a year ago bringing about the egyptian revolution. this is exactly what they had to lie when they called for liberty equality and justice of course that means for the egyptian people to decide how he's going to go to school reporting meantime analyst frank salvato says that washington shouldn't be teaming up with democratic power of political crepes the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at the best case scenario but they need to be a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that i

just in the us but in the west as a whole that they actually seek nothing more than to install a sharia law in place of the constitutional law as a means of telling the bad from the good however you have to keep in mind that these are the parties who have said that egypt's future lies in islam past and some of the things which they have proposed to be put forth in egypt as the law is for example banning alcohol for everyone including tourists for arresting tourists for wearing to the swimsuits for segregated schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to about twelve years of age and whether or not these are the types of laws which those who have been out on the streets. of cairo a year ago bringing about the egyptian revolution whether this is exactly what they had in mind when they called for liberty equality and justice of course that remains for the egyptian people to decide and actually some of them have spoken to are saying that they may actually voice choose to boycott. the egyptian presidential elections because they simply do not

backing that were to come you see a lot of these distractions leaning towards the installation of sharia law is something that is paramount in their constitutions so to try and ally with someone who is putting shari'a law in place she wanted so antithetical to our us constitution. the coin is truly in the air and that still to come here on our team greece in a rage after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity marder anger boils over into riots this week after the retired pharmacist killed himself in front of parliament his suicide note had said he had no more means to live. and the twelve survivors of the team and plane crash that killed thirty one are continuing to get treatment in the hospital as failure to d.i.'s the plane is named as the primary cause of the tragedy. but first russia's pledge to bring. victor boot after the businessman was sentenced to a quarter century behind bars moscow says it sees the case as political who was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stressed there was no proof who would have committed any crime bu

so far as sharia law getting into the basis for a decision in u.s. law, it has happened a couple of times. it has been turned around a couple of times. there is a famous judge in new jersey who dismissed a charge against the defendant who raped his wife because he thought it was permissible for him to do that under his religion. the judge says, he practices a different religion and this is a defense and they dismiss the case. the appellate court turn that around and i do not think we are in danger of having that happen. that is not to say courts should not be aware of it and deal with it. i think the problem is when you get enclaves in which not everybody has a choice about what law applies -- if you live in an enclave that is the role that controls. that is what goes on in europe and that is what i think we need to avoid. >> [unintelligible] >> sure. she is a superb lawyer. she is a superb person. i have worked with her on a number of cases. i think she would make us an additional addition to the federal bank. she is a good, sound, common- sense law

. >> they are out for sharia law. they target christians in their worship areas and bomb them. they have come out to sigh and if you are muslim and sympathetic, you are a target. they have given alternative to vacate areas or have themselves to be blamed. this is their tactics and strategy. >> mark says u.s. funds have been used to help build islamic schools in nigeria. >>> it is a land of pirate and islamic terrorists, two radical groups have joined forces and christians in the line of fa fi. gfire.>> reporter: specific targets are christian converts from islam. this al-shabab video swept the internet in 2008. it shows brutal beheading of this 28-year-old man who converted to christianity in 2005. one year ago this muslim convert to christianity was awakened in his home by al-shabab soldiers. we agreed to protect him and give him a different name, abdy. >> they ransacked my home and they had crosses on. >> tell me what they said to you? >> i was blindfolded and put ne in a dark underground cell. they beat me up. and they wanted to know where i got the bible pages. i noticed th

. >> how about your policy, they all showed the people of egypt wanted sharia. >> well, they got it.d they wanted it with israel. it's like iran. listen to what the iranians are saying. it's pretty clear. >> now israel is surrounded, and we are revealing their plans to attack iranian nuclear sites. let them have what they want. if they want that law, i'm -- >> yeah, but now you have. >> that's my biggest comic fan base, people who have sharia law. >> it's no joke if it is implemented. it will yep lies our-free freedom and stability. >> have you been on al-jazeera? >> i have been. i host a weekend popular show. i'm very popular. you will never get the egyptians and jews to look at each other and love each other. >> we don't want them to love each other, we want them to live peacefully. >> the man who wants to be president, he thinks it's going to happen. >> how do we give $1.5 billion to that. >>. >> maybe the president thinks that's his only leverage now. >> and he's trying to get the female base in the

religious leaders like this imam want to impose sharia law. he said no muslims should take up arms against its brothers. early on monday, leaders of the military coup met the man who would replace him. it is not clear when power will be handed over. ordinary people say they will take matters into their own hands. this student said he and others will use money and weapons to get their land back. the future of the country is not clear. peace and democracy are under threat. >> facebook is paying $1 billion in cash and stocks for a photo sharing company. instagram is the largest acquisition to date. me what is so appealing. >> not sure i can explain why facebook would pay $1 billion. it is an editing functions are you not only snap a picture but there are filters that allow you to adjust the with the picture looks. perhaps cleared up or make it into black-and-white. it is a little bit more fun than your average photo app. >> this is designed specifically for sharing your photographs. >> but paying $1 billion, is it reasonable for facebook to buy a

remember it wasç oklahoma that voted to ban sharia law back in 2010.hey passed a bill to make cooking hash punishable by life in prison. the oklahoma legislature passed a birther bill last year. it passed by a landslide, 77-13 in the oklahoma house on the same day that president obama release d his long form birth certificate. nothing is too radical for oklahoma legislature. it turns out person hood is too radical for them. the bill to ban all birts control by defining a fertilized bill has been kick around the legislature in oklahoma. it was derailed yesterday. the republican house speaker saying the bill will not get a hearing because the majority of the republican caucus privately voted against hearing it. they voiced a variety of concerns saying it would ban in vitro fertilization and birth control. we know that the whole person hood jd is too radical for mississippi voters. perhaps the most anti-abortion electorate in the country voted down a personhood measure by double digits. too radical for mississippi voters, makes it all the more amazing tha

. -- to impose sharia law. >> we visited a theater where actors have experienced their anger. >> these actors are rehearsing at the municipal theater in tunis. the play is about the revolution. they are enthusiastic now, but the two actors are worried they may not be able to work freely for much longer. the political climate is changing in geneva. -- in tunisia. the events that took place outside the theater two months ago are clear signs that. the actors organize a day of street theater, but they found themselves surrounded by angry salafists, muslims who advocates a literal interpretation of the koran. >> they smashed it everything and then they started throwing stones and shoes at us. >> some 5000 salafists continue to beset the actors until they were forced to flee. the fundamentalists achieved their aim. >> anyone with a mind of the rhone is a danger for the salafists. they want to impose their views on us, such as the women wearing the veil, for example. >> more than a year after the revelation, tensions are high in tunisia and violence is increasing. we tried to speak with peopl

a number of candidates have made sharia law part of their campaign messages. people we've been speaking to today have said more important than the islamic law and security. >> that's because the two main players in this election have both accused each other of intimidating voters. irwandi yusuf, the incumbent, warned he would only accept results if he deemed it free and fair. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i will accept the the results if everything proceeds normally and legally. i will not tolerate any violations. last night, my supporters were beaten by the other side. >> accusations have come in from the other side, too, despite pledges from all flighfive candidates. this is zaini abdullah. tensions between the two main players has meant violence, which is not what voters want. >> i think there are three main issues from everyone we've talked to. one is preserving the peace in aceh and avoiding any return to conflict. the second is personal security, feeling safe about where you live, where you work, or your travel. the third is about the economy, having

remember it was oklahoma that voted to ban sharia law back in 2010.gislature passed a bill to make cooking hash punishable by life in prison. hash? yes, hash. the oklahoma legislature passed a birther bill last year. they passed it. it passed by a landslide, 77-13 in the oklahoma house on the same day that president obama released his long form birth certificate. nothing is too radical for the oklahoma republicans in the state legislature, really. nothing except it turns out personhood is too radical for them. the ban to personhood and banning birth control defining a fertilized bill has been kicked around the legislature in oklahoma. it was derailed yesterday. the republican house speaker saying the bill will not get a hearing because the majority of the republican caucus privately voted against hearing it. they voiced a variety of concerns saying it would ban invitro forgetly zags and birth control. we know that the whole personhood idea is too radical >> absolutely. >> mitt romney's position on abortion and contraception was already to the right of

tribesmen have seized the northern towns or they say they want to oppose sharia law in northern mali.the new military regime has proven too weak to dislodge the experienced fighters, many of whom served before mercenaries for libya's muammar gaddafi. >> the former governor's palace in this desert city, the tuareg flag now flies overhead. the nomadic tuareg has long thought to establish their own nation in northern mali, a region they call azabad. two weeks ago a military coup plunged the country into chaos. mutinous million troops imposed the government. loyalist troops -- troops left in north and headed south, leaving the region but for the taureg to take over. how -- so far, another mali's neighbors north europe recognized the tuareg-controlled region as an independent state. >> we consider this unilateral declaration of independence of azawad to be null and void. we call on the tuareg rebels to act within the framework of political dialogue that respects mali's constitution and the country's unity. >> the west african block across is considering military intervention to stave off m

and it's not for the purpose of just evading the other issues, but the sharia issue is only -- there's one committee concerned with this issue, and the other committees discuss all the various issues. and that's what i was trying to focus on. there's one other important issue, and that is that 66 committees focus on public groups. for example, as my colleague here mentioned, that in libya there are marginalized groups that don't get the attention of a minister or any public official. we cannot write the constitution on these uneven principles. now we have a special committee that is studying the ideal way to allow the opportunity to have some kind of balance between old parties. and we're not trying, for example, to weaken the groups that at some point used to be -- to benefit from the space allowed to it under the previous regime. because for 20 years, for example, they were active, and now we try to marginalize them. we want a constitution that defends and protects all parties. and in a very balanced way. so how do we achieve that? we're still in discussion over this. and another iss

anbar province was al qaeda basically conquered the province, and they set up a parallel government, sharia law, courts, a parallel ministry even, of governments. and the rule of this version of radical, radical islam, or anti-islam i would call it, was so offensive that the local iraqis rebuilt against it and we helped them come and the awakening was born. the awakening facilitated the search in both turning point helped save iraq from what was a total collapse, a total full scale civil war in 2006 to a different kind of outcome, which is still terribly dangerous but it transformed in the last five years. and i first want to do travis patriquin was. it was this the new iraqi said helped shape the course of the iraq war. he was actually born in the midwest. he joined the army on the day he finished high school in 1993. he was a devout catholic and christian who happen to believe that, he refused to believe that his religion was right and other religions were wrong. in fact, he studied the koran very carefully, and concluded that authentic islam was our greatest ally, america's greatest ally

pressure all the media reporting are going up the same direction just to be decisive all the time by sharia. of course so you can always find lots more of the story on our website i thought also worth checking out there a fabulous find in russia's south but all of here geologists have discovered dozens of alleged fossilized dinosaur eggs as they broke these rocks during road construction workers. amazing to log on to r.t. dot com. also pain. artist in the center of a race scandal involving the swedish culture minister more on that. these are the images. we're not far off from the r.t. world for now peace talks between israel and the palestinians roadblock palestinian prime minister salam fayyad pulled out of a planned meeting instead to low level officials met with israeli prime minister netanyahu and little progress reported. now explains palestinian see the chance of change continually passing by. israel's prime minister. and his palestinian counterpart scheduled to meet for the first time ever a landmark moment to bring peace right wrong this is really not pretty for peace israel wants p

taliban there's always going to be i believe a hard core element that is going to continue to install sharia law. i've seen some of those folks. i've had an opportunity to speak to tom of them. it's a hard core radical belief that this is the way they need to operate. what produced that, i'm not exactly sure. but i think they will continue to exist. currently they're operating on the other side of the border. they're operating in pakistan. they're operating in a safe haven for the senior leadership of the taliban as long as i've been there. we have tried in numerous ways to engage the pakistani army on the border and to work with them. in my case 12th corp. in pakistan. at least it so that's where the taliban senior leadership are operating. the reintegration, reconciliation program that general allen has been encouraging the commanders to really use that program is focused on the midlevel and lower level taliban. really, the midlevel's been our objective. those are the ones, i just mentioned earlier, if you look at the midlevel taliban, they're residents of helmand province and kandahar. th