To: hoagy62
The man has a point. Real secular democracy is anathema to mainstream Islam.
9 posted on
06/09/2008 11:48:27 AM PDT by
isrul
(Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
To: isrul
37 posted on
06/09/2008 12:23:26 PM PDT by
onedoug
To: isrul
What about Tunisia? Lebanon functioned as a parlimentary democracy for years until the civil war. Although not Arab, Turkey is functioning democracy, that 80 years ago no one would have thought possible. Neither Japan nor Germany would have been considered candidates for democracy 70 or so years ago, or Italy, either, for that matter.
54 posted on
06/09/2008 1:19:52 PM PDT by
attiladhun2
(Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
To: isrul
I agree. Democracy implies a civil legitimacy, and one of the central problems in Islam is establishing political legitimacy.
55 posted on
06/09/2008 1:47:15 PM PDT by
quadrant
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