Vox Populi in EgyptCaliphate Dreams and Strict Sharia
January 28th, 2011 by Andrew Bostom
A sobering reminderbased upon hard datafrom an essay of mine published in April, 2007:American Thinker: The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate
In a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 1000 Egyptian Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007, 67% of those interviewed-more than 2/3, hardly a fringe minority-desired this outcome (i.e., To unify all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state or Caliphate).
The internal validity of these data about the present longing for a Caliphate is strongly suggested by a concordant result: 74% of this Muslim sample approved the proposition To require a strict [emphasis added] application of Sharia law in every Islamic country.
January 28th, 2011 by Andrew Bostom
A sobering reminderbased upon hard datafrom an essay of mine published in April, 2007:American Thinker: The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate
In a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 1000 Egyptian Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007, 67% of those interviewed-more than 2/3, hardly a fringe minority-desired this outcome (i.e., To unify all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state or Caliphate).
The internal validity of these data about the present longing for a Caliphate is strongly suggested by a concordant result: 74% of this Muslim sample approved the proposition To require a strict [emphasis added] application of Sharia law in every Islamic country.
