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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (223036)	3/8/2007 4:20:44 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Pakistan and Bangladesh ? 4 Presidents of India have been Muslims (including the current one).

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (223036)	3/8/2007 4:29:47 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Whether Islam as currently practiced today is even compatible with democracy is an open question. It is incompatible as long as there is no separation of church and state. If you have Democracy the female Muslims are going to vote themselves into equality, so there goes all the Sharia law stuff which discriminates against women. However, based on conversations with the Muslims I've asked, they say that there is nothing in Islam that mandates the state must regulate behaviour. So if you have a non-Islamic government, you can allow citizens to drink booze, and good Muslims will abstain, bad Muslims will drink, and the rest of us will drink. Turkey is a fine example of how Islam can get along with Democracy. Just because you consider them heretics doesn't mean the 80 million Turkish Muslims consider themselves heretics.