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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: one_less who wrote (45859)5/12/2004 12:53:03 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (3) of 89467
 
JotW,

Re: My point: Democracy is fundamentally in line with Islam ...

I have also made something of a study of the history of Islam. I cannot recall any period of time since Mohammed established the religion just before his death in 632 A.D. where democracy (in the sense of its development during the European Enlightenment) has ever been the basis of governance in any Islamic country in the world. Can you be more specific about the examples of democracy you see in the Islamic world?

I do not regard the regimes in Indonesia or in Malaysia to be working democracies in the same sense that democracies exist among OECD nations. And in the Arab speaking world, caliphates and kingdoms seem to be and have been the norm. In countries like Morocco and Algeria, fundamentalist Islamists are probably a statistical majority of the population, but are precluded from gaining ascendancy via the ballot box. No real democracy there.

Where do you see Islamic democracies?
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