True, but democracy can serve this end. Democracy contradicts the caliphate. Hopefully the acceptance of democracy will habituate Mohammedans to disregarding other Mohammedan teachings.
OMG, they are just now looking into this? Are these people that ignorant to reality?
Good lord you idiots.....read a few friggin history books. It might clue you old fools in to Mohammad the "killing machine" and his followers.
That might happen in general, most certainly in individual cases and absolutely not in other cases, but it's quite a roll of the dice to anticipate the large scale move away from Islam and toward democracy.
What I see as more likely is in the short run there will be a government friendly enough and with enough stability that we can withdraw (at least mostly), but in the long run an Islamist party will win enough seats to eliminate the democracy...and they will do it even if the majority are happy with the democracy.
People try to point to Turkey as an example of a muslim democracy, but they seem to forget that the military has to step in from time to time, through out the Islamists and start the game over.