Over the years, Shiv Sena has been repeatedly accused of fomenting violence, using street power to intimidate opponents and, during one period, imposing conservative moral codes.
But the debate comes at a time when local authorities are imposing conservative Islamic regulations on dress, behaviour and education, particularly for women.
Devolution was forced on the party originally in the 1990s as a way of avoiding future long-term Tory governments imposing Conservative policies on Wales from Westminster.
The mosque's leaders and the radical students who supported them in the streets wanted to impose conservative Islamic law (Shariʿah) in the capital city; their spokesman, a Taliban supporter named Abdul Rashid Ghazi, was among the dead.
To Krugman, Bush is the front man for a radical conservative movement that is intent on slashing the federal government, imposing conservative values, and further enriching the corporate establishment.
In the longer run, there is concern that the Brotherhood, which showed its clout by turning out tens of thousands of demonstrators on Friday, could eventually pose its own threat to democratic values and minority rights by imposing conservative religious rule.
Salafi leaders have espoused a variety of radical proposals about applying Saudi Arabia-style Islamic law in Egypt as soon as possible — cutting off the hands of thieves, stoning adulterers, banning alcohol, imposing conservative standards of decency on women's dress, and censoring arts and entertainment.
In mid-2013 protests centred on Istanbul's Gezi Park accused the prime minister of increased authoritarianism, and of seeking to impose conservative Islamic values on Turkey.
They fear Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development Party AKPP) is trying to impose conservative Islamic values on the officially secular country and infringe on their personal freedoms, correspondents say.
