>> he was drinking beer. >> which is against sharia law?rotest against that, push-up bras, cursing, gambling, anything in violation of the sharia law. they believe they are entitled to put an end to it. >> is this a european problem? >> it's a problem that exists in the united states. there is a problem where radical muslim forces create enclaves where they can gradually implement sharia law even in the united states. >> like where? >> there is a place called islamburg in new york state. it's 60 acres large run by a group that's linked to a pakistani clerk. >> what do they do in islamburg? they named it? >> when you go there, there was a sign. they have changed it. >> this is the video of islamburg? >> that's the video law enforcement provided to me showing women in military fatigues getting guerilla warfare training. >> this is in new york state? >> new york state. >> what's their plan, to bring sharia to new yorkers? >> according to the state department this is a violent islamic sect that wants to purify islam through violence. they exist

every gop with the exception of mitt romney espoused sharia law rhetoric on the campaign trail.summer north carolina became the seventh red state to ban the phantom menace. democrats may not be immune to the nonsense but a tenuous grasp on reality is a hall mark of the right. a recent group of reporters conducted by james carville found just how deep the disdain is for president obama among the base of this party. among the reports, key findings, conservatives think they are losing ground and president obama has won on a socialist agenda. they are very conscious of being white in a country that is increasingly minority. the problem in d.c. is not gridlock. obama has won. the problem is republicans failing to stop him. the findings prompted andrew sullivan to lament the right return of the party attempting to rationalize the irrational sullivan opined i see no way to integrate groups into broader body politic or conversion. their alienation is so deep it's close to unbridgeable. the center is not holding. i fear it will get even worse than this until it gets better. he's become a

an entitled to put an end to it. >> there is a problem with islamists can implement sharia law. it's happening in the united states. >> like where? >> there is islamberg in new york state. it's 60 acres large and it's run by a group that is linked to a pakistani cleric. >> there is a sign and that is a video law enforcement provided to me, to show the women in military fatigues getting gur yila warfare training. >> this is new york state? >> this is new york state. >> what is their plan? bringing it to new yorkers? >> this violent islamic sect wants to purify islam in the united states. >> you've got this in new york and london. is it greater than that? >> yes. there are places in south carolina, in georgia, around the country, and we're continuing to investigate and find more of the places they call them villages and say there are 22 around the country. >> how do they get away with what they did to the kid in london? >> this is what is shocking is that it's just a group of gang members you can say this is the thing that just happens here or there. the fact authorities haven't b

well is being governed by normal financial industries it is also governed by islamic law, known as sharia law, including prohibiting interest payments, meaning that no interest will be charged on money invested. gambling is not allowed, investments have to be designed against speculation. , thingsings not allowed like alcohol, pornography, things like that. we will have more on that in just about one hours time. one of the most valuable technology companies in the world, easily one of the most recognizable right there. they reported their quarterly numbers on monday, the company continued to be extremely profitable, but not by as much as analysts and experts were hoping for. they ended their year with their first yearly earnings decline in 11 years. despite the overall drop in profits, apple managed to sell our record 33.8 million iphones over the past three months, an increase of more than 25%. analysts were also disappointed by forward guidance, you cannot please them. apple says future profits may continue to slide in the next few months, which will be crucial. then the all-important h

issue sharia. law. you don't need to do. their job but it would. cost on the nerves the water is poison can't be any fish with the tanneries. and our forefathers were fishermen and lived off it we haven't caught anything for seven months now and what the film. was we carry on even if we are no more. we can barely survive. that would look. good joe you see our empty nets oh you know what. was. good you know. yes there. was. the. blue run. but. it's only during the rainy season with the fall of freshwater the fisherman couldn't hope to catch a life fish. it would take many years and millions of euros to clean this water though didn't really. was i think. that is i've been living here for thirteen years when i want to resign clean and my husband was a fisherman and we were leaving thanks to seem that over today the fish from the what a gander is inedible and my husband is out of work if the river were cleaned well could leave well from it. to go to the government is responsible for the state of the buddha ganga long look what happened to it this river

blocked by ultraconservative members of parliament, who believe that underage marriage is supported by sharia law. some are confident the time is right to try again and to raise the minimum age to 18. >> this law is important. there was already a lot of movement on this front. i have spoken with the head of the house of representatives and the prime minister. i have explained the technical aspects. >> getting the law approved looks to be a challenge. >> the yemeni parliament has dropped this issue for a long time. it is busy with other tasks. the president is the only one who is capable of settling this situation of underage marriage by issuing a national decree preventing early marriage which would be historic. >> meanwhile, she is rebuilding her life alongside her sister, who also escaped an early marriage to an abusive husband. they both now long for the things they missed when they became child brides, like finishing their education. >> i advise girls who are young to not get married and instead finish their education. >> changing the numbers on early marriage in a country that struggles

there've been reports of jihadists instituting sharia law and carrying out public executions.for more on the fractures among secular and islamist opponents of syrian president bashar al-assad and how much military support the u.s. is actually giving to the opposition, i'm joined by. greg miller, a reporter for the "washington post." and andrew tabler, a senior fellow at the washington institute. andrew, the rivalries and resentments between secular and islamist fighters have long been well known in this two and a half year war, but is the blossoming of that resentment into open warfare something new? >> it is. there have been skirmishs in the past but the activities around the saz and the growing tensions between the extremists and those in the main line opposition have been exacerbated by a few things: frustrations following the chemical weapons use by the regime in august but also real frustration with the opposition coalition. particularly the political operatives who exist abroad and those are the main line yoounts which are inside of the country fighting the assad regime.

she includes sharia law for pakistan and reasonably there is no chance of getting that. >> absolutely not. there is not much to talk about if he does not change his position, does not accept the constitution of packet and and -- pakistan and does not agree to talk to the government as just one of many groups within that represent the people of the region. on the government side, the weakness has been they have not yet come up with a plan for what to do about the region. neither did the previous government, which actually had a on methods,d study never implemented them, left the entire job to the military. and there is no military solution to this problem. >> looking at this from the point of view of the west and america, how concerned would they be over what appears to be the weakness of the new government in pakistan? has a sharif government huge raft of challenges that it faces. difficult toing it fill cabinet positions, to make decisions simultaneously across a broad front. the approach they have taken appears to have slowed things down, and this is affecting their credibility inte

she includes sharia law for pakistan and reasonably there is no chance of getting that. >> absolutely not. there is not much to talk about if he does not change his position, does not accept the constitution of packet and and -- pakistan and does not agree to talk to the government as just one of many groups within that represent the people of the region. on the government side, the weakness has been they have not yet come up with a plan for what to do about the region. neither did the previous government, which actually had a on methods,d study never implemented them, left the entire job to the military. and there is no military solution to this problem. >> looking at this from the point of view of the west and america, how concerned would they be over what appears to be the weakness of the new government in pakistan? has a sharif government huge raft of challenges that it faces. difficult toing it fill cabinet positions, to make decisions simultaneously across a broad front. the approach they have taken appears to have slowed things down, and this is affecting their credibility inte

moving on here again with the graphics, sharia- the islamic law- ethical dimension. now let's not lose track of our key theme here. we're talking about doctrine, ethics, and the social dimension, and of course, sharia, the ethical dimension drawn from the teachings of the qur'an, defines the social dimension in the islamic community. prayers- a lot- five times a day. and shortly, we'll here dr. ossie from the american islamic college describe the five times a day prayer, but this is very important. janet, jump in here, please. >> in houston smith's book, it said originally mohammed wanted the prayer 50 times a day. and moses said, i've got to talk with you- i know these people; you can't make it that many times. so they negotiated it down to five times a day. >> and a wonderful point, too, because we'll see in the mythic dimension- let's not forget our other dimensions that of course mohammed rose up, particularly in the al-aqsa mosque, he rose up from al-aqsa and went up into the seventh heaven and he spoke with moses, he spoke with jesus- these people are all invit

>> reporter: zia supported the jihadists and also imposed a conservative interpretation of muslim sharia law. most frightening for many even today is a blasphemy law. anyone accused is subject to imprisonment without bail and at least on paper faces a death sentence. this law is commonly used against non-muslims, often to settle personal grudges or business disputes, says roland de souza, partner in a karachi engineering firm. >> somebody comes and accuses someone of either burning a page of the koran or having said something against the prophet of islam, and before anybody can actually be arrested under the law, vigilante justice takes over. the news is spread in the neighborhood, and most of these neighborhoods are either slums or rural areas, and people come out wanting to lynch the accused. >> since the late '80s, some 250 blasphemy cases have been brought and an estimated 52 people lynched or killed after being accused of blasphemy. >> why would somebody believe me if i ran out in the street and said, you are burning pages of the koran or doing something else that was insulting of y

under strict sharia law the strictest interpretation of islam and it's perhaps the world's most oppressive patriarchy unlike other u.s. allies such as qatar that puts up the guise of progressivism saudi arabia is unabashedly repressive when it comes to women believe it or not it's the only country in the world that forbids women from driving a vehicle but before you start judging or a little saudi arabia there is a very good reason why just check out what one saudi cleric had to say on the matter. she should have been with good. without them we're in the month. of the. wound but. oh so it's not p.m.s. it's just that i've been driving too much thanks mr clear clearing that up all kidding aside though this outrageous discriminatory policy has sparked a protest among saudi women for the second time in just three years dozens of saudis have taken their cars and proudly driven through the streets of riyadh but as shocking as the forbid in practice may sound the western ears this ban on women driving actually has no legal basis in the country which is part of a larger system of customs meant to

far as i understand and that they would create what they called a movement through introduce the sharia law in syria and not only in syria but in that jason there is and then forty more groups. said that they would be creating of us like me from. and these people moving closer to it then to the free syrian army which is being portrayed as the secular opposition so the trend is. in the favor of jihad just ridiculous among those who fight on the ground and it is not only our conviction that there is the conviction of the americans that we cannot and must not talk to. people we can only talk to those who offer for the sovereign territory and in federal security multi-ethnic multi confessional syria. and therefore i come back to the beginning government of my answer it is of crucial importance to have the right opposition groups the right fix of the mix of the opposition groups the directors of the countries but as the g eight leaders said look at the sun it was june. we call all of them all eight of them plus the european union they called upon the government and opposition to join forces

from from others across the middle east who almost all the other countries a majority of them want sharia to be the basis of islamic law to be the basis of their judicial systems in syria that was not so and not because there are people who deeply believe in islam and who want islam to be part of their life but because there is such a mix in syria of different ethnicities and different groups and that's where i think it is able to draw this fifty percent of support but it's critically important i think to recognize that it probably can't go on that way it can't go on as some sort of both a secular ideal that never existed and that's where i said i think is opening the door with geneva two with the two thousand and fourteen plan for for elections and for political reform is to bring in some other representation allen side of the louis sect of society that is really important they're not the majority and the idea that a minority could continue to hold on to a country indefinitely is. historic and anachronistic that's a good point richard i mean if i know the u.s. has always says assad has t

sharia courts have been instituted and people are being beheaded in the middle of the square and it's been reported as you just pointed out of that some of the groups that are fighting in syria are actively funded and aided by. saudi arabia and i can you wouldn't argue as well that the state ideology of society arabia is a very intolerant when it comes not only to syria or you know other muslims but pretty much the rest of the world they see all of us as infidels and some would argue. that ambitions that a vision of the wall this predictable as well they want to create a caliphate well i spent most of my time as ambassador working with the saudis to encourage a more tolerant society a more open society if that was meeting international standards economically and which would trickle down to political and social values as well i see no evidence that the saudis or. internet and have any organized plan to install any kind of caliphate around the world they obviously have an outreach program called dawa and these are not unlike what some of our religious institutions have to do work or wor

it imposed a brutal form of sharia law. it's one illustration of the complete disregard for human life and al-shabaab gained access to large parts of the country during the devastating famine in 2011 leading to the deaths of thousands of somalians. in late 2011 kenyan forces joined the african union mission to somalia and help to finally turn the tide against al-shabaab. they have had a number of successes against al-shabaab first by expelling that group from mogadishu and later a port that have provided significant source of revenue for the terrorist group. despite these successes it seems it has reached its physical limits of expansion in somalia. while al-shabaab is deprived of valuable territory continues to call military and civilian casualties inside somalia with new guerrilla tactics and now we have this brazen attack by the group in kenya's capitol. all of this must lead us to ask his al-shabaab as weak as we thought it was and you may expect more attacks of of the scale in kenya and possibly other countries? have i

they have chromed -- controlled up to a quarter of the country, 1.3 million having sharia law imposedpon them. fighting comes to a standstill. >> what about the legality of drone strikes? we are inviting another country's sovereignty by dropping bombs in pakistan and yemen. is that legal? >> the yemeni government asked us to be in there. they are involved in a civil war, it's not an invasion of their sovereignty to be invited in to do that. the strikes in yemen are largely - they are legal because you are talking about targetting al qaeda and the arabian peninsula members. all the strikes mentioned in this report killed al qaeda and the arabian pieninsula members, in bigger numbers... >> the drones in pakistan, where the pakistani government in many case, if not most, have not wanted us to use drones. >> that is true. >> what is the legality there. is there a legal argument to drop missiles in pakistan? >> yes. if pakistan is unable or unwilling to prevent the forces in the border regions of pakistan to come across the region and attack u.s. troops and afghan troops, we are within our

they will impose sharia law. there have been discussions of providing training to local moderates and councils with no response. at least as far as i know. as i understand it, the administration is not interested in undertaking any kind of training or equipping syrians for fear offending assad. i would like to know what you would like to see happen. you have mentioned mediating that or assisting through the body that you're trying to form. is there any prospect that it would be acted upon before there is a peace agreement? in other words, we will leave the vacuum open until there's an agreement with assad? that is not a good way forward. >> i agree with your question about the difficulties. we should provide training. again, governance is necessary for those areas. i believe that there must be pressure. that is my point about putting the question of pressure on the regime to stop using heavy weapons. this has been one of the main problems. i would mention that 10 days ago, they used the air force against a city.

but the extremist view of the religion, the enforcement of strict sharia law and i think indicative signf what the regime in iran is really like. egypt is some what different. >> how so? what accounts for that? >> i think you have in teheran, what they call themselves islamic revolution of 1979, and it is a government that supports terrorist activity and seeking nuclear weapons and represses its own citizens that don't share the values of the 1979 revolution. i think it is all part of the same thing. i think a government supporting terrorism will repress its own citizens and that's what you see here. >> the attacks in egypt are deadly. this wedding party and a guy rolls up in a motorcycle and guns everybody down. who in these countries has the backs of these people, the christians? >> in egypt under mubarak, conditions were far from perfect. i would not contend that but with the muslim brotherhood suppressed, the christians had an opportunity to live normal open lives. remember the secretary general of united nations himself was a coptic christian. but what you see going on now, the musl

in 2007 covered themselves and took to the streets with whips to punish people for not following shariae traveled to meet a group of extreme hard line fundamentalists there. i sat there to find out why they oppose a full education of the kinds girls get in the west. what are girls learning that is wrong? >> freedom and democracy. freedom and democracy cannot coexist. it is either islam or no islam. either you are muslim or no muslim. there is no in between. >> reporter: they choose to wear the niqab. >> a woman is seen as no more than a sex object in society. her contribution to society depends how much cleavage or leg she shows. islamic teaching teaches us us to guard honor, guard chastity. protect ourselves. >> reporter: when you see somebody completely uncovered like me, what do you think? >> oppressed. because you are not subservient to the one who created you. you are slave to your own desires. >> if you were not famous diane sawyer and had not achieved what you achieved in your life would you be happy being a mother? >> reporter: you think it is possible to have both. >> >> in the

the source says the detainees also a member of ansar al sharia.t's islamic group identified in state department email traffic two hours after the deadly attack. and now the latest on two americans kidnapped by pirates. the american captain engineer was seized from oil ship off the coast of nigeria on wednesday. today nigerian rebels say they are in contact with the kidnappers and will attempt to ensure the americans' safety. the nigerian navy is also searching four two kidnapped americans. finally update on a story we brought you last week. you you remember, the michigan man fired from wal-mart. he got fired after helping a woman being insulted on the store parking lot. wal-mart had said he violated the work place violence policy. well, it turns out wal-mart has now changed its tune and offered christopher oswald his job back but, get, this oswald says he is not going back and that's tonight's speed read. and tonight republican members of congress giving h.h.s. secretary sebelius an ultimatum turn over documents on the failed launch of healthcare.

> reporter: zia supported the jihadists, and also imposed a conservative interpretation of muslim sharia law. most frightening for many even today is a blasphemy law. anyone accused must be imprisoned without bail and-- at least on paper-- faces the death sentence. this law is commonly used against non-muslims, often to settle personal grudges or business disputes, says roland de souza, partner in a karachi engineering firm. >> somebody comes and accuses someone of either burning a page of the koran or having said something against the prophet of islam, and before anybody can actually be arrested under the law, vigilante justice takes over. the news is spread in the neighborhood, and most of these neighborhoods are either slums or rural areas, and people come out wanting to lynch the accused. >> reporter: since the late '80s, some 250 blasphemy cases have been brought, and an estimated 52 people lynched or killed after being accused of blasphemy. why would somebody believe me if i ran out into the street and said you are burning pages of the koran or doing something else that was insulti

most significant of which in my view are number one a believe in the imposition of something called sharia, what i call muslim laws are in fact unitary monolithic and hard to be imposed on all moslems everywhere. second, the ultimate goal of creating what they deem to be islamic states and many muslims would dispute entirely their definition of what an islamic state should be like. that state is to be ruled by that unitary version of religious laws that they advocate. these movements have been on the rise since the iranian revolution in particular and we find them manifesting as political parties, art movements, even non-governmental organizations. in response to these movements and contemporary period, western discourse has sometimes seemed to offer only two choices. that is the openly discriminatory or flawed characterization of all of this that suggests that somehow islam is inherently fundamentalist for all muslims are fundamentalists and so on and that is not only offensive but just plain wrong and you sometimes hear this in the u.s.. on the left as well sometimes you hear responses t

the ruling sultan announced today that enforcement of the sharia penal code will begin in six months. penalties include amputations for convicted thieves and stoning for those who commit adultery. brunei already bans the sale of alcohol and evangelism by other religions. in australia, firefighters made more progress today thanks to cooler temperatures and light rain. 60 wildfires were still burning in new south wales on the outskirts of sydney. officials said crews deliberately merged two massive fires, hoping to corral them before the winds and heat get worse again. >> the latest predictions are indicating that we may have made a significant inroad into just how far these fires are likely to advance over the next 24 and 48 hours. i just don't know how far they're going to run yet, but none of us know how far they're going to run yet. but what we do snow that together we have done everything we can to limit just how far those fires run. >> woodruff: so far, one person has died in the fires, and at least 208 homes have been destroyed. facebook announced today it's working on new ways t