Elroy, you are so deluded it's just plain sad.
Well its not that bad, so cheer up.
Freedom and democracy is to the human spirit what air is to the lungs. Very few, and only very deluded people who don't know better, would prefer Sharia-law, which complete ignores human rights and oppresses women.
Your ignorance is showing. The vast majority of Muslims in the ME would greatly prefer Sharia law-based governance to allowing an elected legislature to implement laws which are contrary to Sharia. When I've asked Muslims the English translation for Islam, they often say "submission", as in submission to God's will. For them, God's will is laid out in the Koran, and the appropriate way to behave is codified in Sharia law. So they want to submit to Sharia law first, not to what a democratically elected government tells them they can and can not do.
That's the fact, Jack.
Why do you think so many Muslims leave the Middle East?
It's poor and sandy and not very fun?
They don't like the systems of government there. The people who institute Sharia law use it as a weapon of oppression and to sieze and remain in power. At first the common Muslims accept it, because it seems to bring peace and security. But then they chaffe under it's brutality.
Oh, I thought you were asking me. OK, whatever.
Democracy has been developed steadily by the finest minds for 4,000 years, since the Greeks began to experiment with it. It represents the best evolved form of government that humans have been able to devise. Sharia is merely 1,300 years old and has never evolved since the dark ages. No one in their right mind would prefer that.
Well the interesting thing is how to reconcile democracy and the nation-state system with Sharia. Once you allow democracy in a country, one result may be the removal of religion from your societal rules (the democratically elected legislature votes some non-Sharia law into effect, and then "bang" you are no longer a Muslim country; rather, you are a secular country with a lot of Muslims). I agree many ME Muslims want to have more of a say in their governance (as well as more equitable distribution of resources), but I don't think most ME Muslims want to submit to a government that may implement laws for society that violate Sharia.
Your argument is condescending to Muslims and idiotic on its face.
The majority of Muslims in the ME would make the same argument (the argument being that they would rather live under a Sharia legal system than democratic non-Sharia legal system). Probably make it even more eloquently that I have (hard to imagine, but true).
For Americans individuality, freedom, human rights and capitalism are like breathing, for ME Muslims, submitting to God through daily life as governed by Sharia law is like breathing.
Your failure to recognize this is what we call Clash of Civilizations (of course I am right, and of course they are wrong!).
My point also was, imagine the Saudis were the world's super power, and they decide to liberate Americans and grant them what every human on earth wants and has as a God given right, but they think that what every human is entitled to is the right to live under a Sharia system. Americans wouldn't like that, and would likely blow up the US (and all of Colorado!) resisting. |
