The Bob Edwards Show, Sadakat Kadri, David France, and Peter Staley, September 24, 2012

Sadakat Kadri writes about the history of Islamic law is his book, Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law From the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World.

Then, How to Survive a Plague is a film that captures the plight of ailing activists who fought to save their own lives and six million others through the worst of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Filmmaker David France and advocate Peter Staley discuss the historical relevance of how HIV-positive patients forced government officials and health organizations to take up their cause and unite to tame the deadly virus. [Broadcast Date: September 24, 2012]