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To: Constant Reader who wrote (133921)	8/23/2005 11:26:01 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793820

I noticed that he completely overlooked Turkey, which already is a democracy and that the party in power is a religious party. The democracy in Turkey started out secular and remained very secular for a long time so the institutions are pretty well established. Had they started out with a religious party running things, it could have been very different.

To: Constant Reader who wrote (133921)	8/23/2005 12:30:11 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793820

Islamic parties are the only effective opposition to authoritarian regimes is because almost all other forms of civil opposition are banned. Boy, you must have jumped over a lot of intermediate steps to come to that conclusion, because it simply does not follow. I thought we were all in agreement that democracy is the most effective opposition to authoritarian regimes because all parties have a voice. I would posit that Sharia law is not really inconsistent with democracy, but the Mullahs say it is because they want temporal power as well as spiritual power. Well, of course they can't change the Koran by voting, so if the Koran requires something be done, that's that. But I thought they were going to use Sharia law as the basis of family law only.