Is sharia a good legal system? Recently, two young Turks debated the issue on YouTube and now the nation cannot stop talking about it.

Above all, people are talking about whether Diamond Tema, a 30-year-old YouTuber, insulted the feelings of the nation's Muslims with his comments about the Prophet Muhammad.

Turkey's Presidential Office and Ministry of Justice think he did. And now they have announced that an arrest warrant has been issued for Tema and an investigation into "incitement" and "degradation of religious feelings" has been initiated.

A Turk with Albanian roots, Tema has since published numerous follow-up videos in which he seeks to explain that he committed no crime during the debate and that he had simply quoted generally accepted written accounts of the prophet. "There are neither legal nor moral problems with that," he repeated. "To spin the situation and present it as if a godless person just beat up on a sharia proponent is manipulation."

The case is another example of just how divided Turkish society is today — with some of the opinion that Diamond Tema's comments were simply free speech, and others claiming he blasphemed the Prophet Muhammad and violated religious sensibilities.

In the now controversial YouTube video, Diamond Tema, an agnostic as well as a committed secularist, discussed the merits of sharia law with Asrin Tok, a........

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