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Originally Posted by Savvy27
Liberal democracy is incompatible with a lot of particular cultures. There are significant issues with democracy in Russia, check out the nepotism in Japan, Italian democracy has it's failures and even the United States have such extreme inequalities in wealth and power that as a nation they pose a very real threat to other countries due to economic pursuits.
You are correct that there are Islamic traditions and values that compromise democracy, but generally, the more people that feel they have input into the governance of a country, the less extreme the behaviour of that country.
I just don't see where the legitimacy of the claim that Egyptians should not enjoy self-determination comes from.
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I never said they shouldn't have self determination, I said that a thriving democracy is not going to result from it.