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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Is democracy only good when we get the outcome we prefer? The MB is fairly beneign compared to other groups like the Salafists.
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Democracy is only good when actual democracy is going on. You have to have more than just an election to have democracy. Other tenants like freedom of speech, religion, etc... have to be upheld as well to have a democracy.
When a fundamentalist religious party is in control, democracy, by definition, cannot exist.
So it really comes down to a question of how much power these fundamentalist organizations actually have. If they have too much power and influence then democracy will cease to exist.