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Originally Posted by blankall
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.
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So we condemn them before they've even had their try at democracy because of our paranoia of what could happen?
They've had an on again, off again democratic government since their independence from Britain and I don't remember them having a problem with religion taking over. Their most important problem was corruption and I think only time and maturity will solve that.