[TexasCowboy]

I honestly can't see how democracy and Islam, as defined by the Quran, can coexist.
They are mutually incompatible.

[USF]

I have my reservations about democracy in Islamic countries too... I lived in so-called moderate Malaysia for a while.

The MSM likes to refer to it as some kind of an Islamic Shangri La, but I witnessed how they used democracy to vote in Sharia and Islamic gender and religious apartheid on the countries less developed east coast, thus destroying the very democratic process that got them into power in the first place and putting the fear of Allah into Muslims and non-Muslims alike

They kinda got away there with what they failed to do in the Algerian elections that were canceled because fanatics were about to win.

The "purist" Islamic idea that they "laws of Allah" (sharia) is what they must be accountable for over the "fallible" and "inconsistent" laws of man is worrying and incompatible with what we would call democracy.

Anyway, I hope things go better in Iraq and it ends up as a shining example for the rest of the Islamic world, and that and the masses there don't end up voting in some crazy Shiite Mullah in the years to come... Only time will tell.