Yesterday the New York Daily News posted a story about Kristie Trup and Katie Gee, both 18, two teenagers who were assaulted in Zanzibar. The British teenagers were volunteering at a school in Zanzibar.

The article reports:

The attack comes during the tourist season in the historic town and after a Zanzibar Muslim leader, Sheikh Fadhil Suleiman Soraga, was hospitalized with acid burns in a November attack.

Two Christian leaders were killed early this year in separate attacks.

A separatist group in Zanzibar, Uamsho (Awakening), is pushing for the archipelago to exit from its 1964 union with mainland Tanzania, which is ruled as a secular country. Uamsho wants to introduce Islamic Sharia law in Zanzibar.

Educating girls and women goes against the basic tenets of Sharia Law.

The International Business Times reported today:

The men who attacked Katie Gee and Kristie Trup with acid in Zanzibar were part of a radical Islamic group that wants to impose stricter Muslim laws on the Indian Ocean island.

Five men have been arrested by police in relation to the attack – two men threw acid in Gee and Trup’s faces before speeding off on a moped.

Sharia Law is incompatible with democracy and freedom. We need to be aware of that as certain groups in America attempt to bring it here.