From Democracy to Sharia

by Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review Online
May 19, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2573/from-democracy-to-sharia

Excerpt:

A few weeks ago, amid the "Arab Spring" giddiness, a Shiite mosque opened in Cairo. This was big news. Among Egypt's 80 million people, there are only a few thousand Shiites. It's a 90 percent Sunni country, with even Christians vastly outnumbering the Shia. So, in their euphoria over the mosque's inauguration, Shiite clerics heralded this Husseiniya (as Shiite mosques are known) as a symbol of rapprochement. The mosque would bridge the sectarian divide: a Shia center in this bustling Sunni city, yet a house of worship, thus emphasizing what unites rather than divides Muslims in one of Islam's most important nations.

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