[RogerFGay]

The movement began spreading to university campuses, where it was encouraged by the state as a counterbalance to left-wing student movements.

No matter how bad the alternative, it's not that hard to get a mass movement going against left-wing movements. To Islamic countries, Western democracy needs to be presented as "the third way."

[WesternCulture]

To Islamic countries, Western democracy needs to be presented as “the third way.”

- In many cases, yes.

Speaking about democracy and Islam, I recall that some years ago there was lots of talk about the Iranian population demanding a political orientation towards democracy. By today it seems like the freedom loving people of Iran have lost that battle.

I believe you can’t hold a people down forever and I also believe that movements like Islamism and Nazism are against human nature. Therefore also Islamism will lose in the end. But while Nazism was a mayfly in the world history, Islamism is not. Furthermore, Islamism has incorporated barbarian customs that existed before Islam and even though Imams might denounce them, Islam have de facto reinforced them.

A good example of this is honor killings in a country like Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has declared that honor killings are against Islam, but the fact that punishment remains very lenient make people think it IS fine with Islam as long as you are prepared to pay the moderate price for the committing crime.