Liberty Briefs0

• January/February 2002
• January 1, 2002

Indonesia: Protesters Demand Islamic Law Hundreds of protesters in Jakarta staged a demonstration calling for the Islamic Sharia law to be imposed on the country’s 212 million inhabitants, according to a British Broadcasting Corporation report. Indonesia is 83 percent Muslim and 7 percent Christian. Nigeria: Former Ruler Calls for Imposition of Islamic Law Muhammadu Buhari,

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• January/February 2002
• January 1, 2002

No Sects, Please; We're French0

• January/February 2002
• January 1, 2002

The United States views the new legislation as another step toward restricting religious freedom in France and is concerned about the example France is giving to the rest of the world. France has solid democratic institutions; not the case for many of the countries likely to follow its lead. The United States’ reaction echoes the

Canadian Conundrum0

• January/February 2002
• January 1, 2002

Americans doubting the truth of Tocqueville’s great paradox of liberal democracy, that equality will overwhelm liberty once a state attempts to impose its version of perfect equality for all, need only look a few miles north to Canada. An experiment to test that proposition has been in progress here since 1982, when the Canadian Charter

Care For Your Rites0

• January/February 2002
• January 1, 2002

Jim Raines (a pseudonym) was hired as a service writer by a major auto dealership in a large Southwestern city. A service writer is the guy who prepares the service order on your car when you take it to the dealer. Jim was scheduled to work Monday through Friday, plus one Saturday a month. He

Home-Grown Intolerance in France0

• January/February 2002
• January 1, 2002

Passed by the French Parliament, and signed into law in June 2001, the “To reinforce the prevention and repression of groups of a sectarian nature” aims to restrict the free expression, growth, and development of religious groups. Amazingly, many of those targeted are from mainstream religious beliefs, which flourish in the United States under the