The point is democracy in Iraq is an alien transplant. Islamic extremists reject it because it goes contrary to the autocratic essence of Islam. Whereas Western political structures are based on a bottom up model, in Islamic cultures the political structures are based on a top down model. In our societies, the people rule. In theirs, either the clergy gives the orders as mediated in the Koran or there are military regimes that claim to rule in its name. Either way, in most of the Islamic World, true freedom as we know in the West is non-existent.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new"
And Islam's answer to this centuries old question is?
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