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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
They ought to just lock this one up right away. There's more personal insults in this thread than there are solid arguments.
Ridiculous.
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Agreed.
I think the point that the OP was trying to make was that:
Certain conditions allow for groups to take advantage of democratic process and impose an entirely non-democratic government. When certain conditions exist, it might be better not to have that process exist in the first place.
This is a phenomenom not confied to Islam. Although I hate bringing Hitler into arguments, you can make the argument that Hitler was democratically elected yet his government had absolutely nothing to do with the principles of democracy. No I am not comparing Islam to Nazis. But extreme Islam (ex. the Taliban) has more in common with facism than democracy.
People need to keep in mind that there is a lot more to democracy than just voting. IE there is a difference between democracy and mob rule.