They want to make Syria a Sharia state, which means no alcohol or tobacco, or “immoral” movies and TV shows. No one seems to be offering any other vision of Sharia, despite claims in the West that it is so multifarious as to defy easy characterization. “Jabhat Al Nusra’s new Syria,” by Balint Szlanko for … Continue reading Syria: “Our first goal is to get rid of Assad. Then we want a state where the Quran is the only source of law.”