[SonOfDarkSkies]

To state the obvious, the problem with that movement to democracy by well-meaning people in the ME is that radical islamic forces like the MB lurk in the background until the old authorities cede power...and then they seize it.

If Islam can cause problems in European countries where it is a tiny minority, one can only imagine what it will do where it is a great majority. Democracy in a country dominated by vampires produces a vampire democracy.

[Cicero]

To my knowledge, there has only been ONE reasonably free, Democratic country in North Africa or the Middle East in the past 1500 years or so (excluding Israel).

That country was Lebanon, where they had a coalition government of Christians and Muslims. I say WAS, because the Muslims revolted, Syria intervened, and the Democracy in Lebanon vanished.

Islam is incapable of building a Democracy, because the religion of Mohammed denies the existence of free will or free choice. It’s all about submission to a completely arbitrary and irrational god, or his human representatives on earth. Islam and freedom are simply incompatible.