2/13/11, Kristof: "Stop treating Islamic fundamentalism as a bogyman and allowing it to drive American foreign policy. American paranoia about Islamism has done as much damage as Muslim fundamentalism itself."...
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10/6/12, "Salafists urge ultraconservative Islam on post-Arab Spring governments," Washington Post, Booth et al.
"The elections that followed the Arab uprisings elevated Islamists out of decades of repression and into the region’s most powerful posts. Here in Egypt, a former prisoner became president.
But to Salafists, adherents of a puritanical form of Islam who have embraced the country’s new freedoms with gusto, the emerging Islamist order has a serious flaw: It isn’t nearly Islamist enough.
“They say that the people do not want sharia,” said Gamel Saber, a back-slapping Salafist activist who said he dreams of a day when his country’s courts will fully implement Islamic law. “But that is not true. They are ready.”
Saber’s dream is shared by millions of allies across North Africa, and that reality is proving to be the most serious challenge yet for the months-old governments struggling to find their feet in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia....
"“If a thief steals your monthly pay, would you not want his hand cut off?”"...via Free Republic
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2/13/11, "What Egypt Can Teach America" — NY Times, Nicholas Kristof
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Nigerian holds amputated hand of man punished by Sharia law, 2/15/08. Nigeria is a member of the UN Human Rights Council to which Americans are now subservient. Hey, let's 'learn' about it!
Learn this, Kristof. Above is a picture of a man's hand chopped off per Sharia law which is practiced in many countries and is gaining ground in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. Kristof says Americans shouldn't be so "paranoid" about Islamic life. Best not to make major life decisions based on Kristof's analysis.
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