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To: ChiMark
Show me a democratic Muslim country.

I read somewhere on this forum that Turkey is the only one.

29 posted on 10/11/2001 3:15:32 PM PDT by Mushinronshasan
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To: Mushinronshasan
In addition to Turkey, add Egypt, Algeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia (the most populous Muslim nation). Women can vote in all these countries as well.

Bangladesh and Indonesia currently have elected *female* heads of state. (Turkey and Pakistan have also had female Prime Ministers in the past.)

Pakistan was a democracy until it was hijacked by the military relatively recently (another reason besides the unauthorized nuke testing we had sanctions against them. They've apparently been lifted as a trade for their cooperation in the operation on Afghanistan.)

There are many pseudo-democracies as well where there are public elections for some of the chambers/parliaments or some elected heads of government combined with an appointed (or royal) head of state.

33 posted on 10/11/2001 4:09:29 PM PDT by Gobsmacked
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