Radical Islam aims to dominate a world under Sharia law. This threatens the most basic liberties and freedoms of western society. Under Sharia, the private and public lives of an individual are subjugated to the “will of Allah”.
Countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan under the Taliban, whose legal systems are based on Sharia openly torture and mutilate citizens, persecute homosexuals, and restrict all freedom of religion.
Democratic, western societies embrace and even legislate many basic human rights and freedoms. Some of these rights and freedoms include: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of education and freedom to organize political parties. Imagine how different life would look absent these freedoms.
The African Nuba tribes inhabiting central Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, are currently facing a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Arab and Islamist central government.
The US costs in the War on Terror has exceeded, in some estimates, 2 trillion dollars. Despite this huge cost, the phenomenon of Islamic radicalism and terrorism has not been defeated.
Documenting the Islamic ideology behind Iran’s leaders, Iranium explores the scenarios we may face if this radical regime comes to possess the world’s most powerful weapons.