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Originally Posted by Kipperriffic
Its the public who has a wrong perception of what a "spring" or a "revolution" is. Maybe its because of way too many fictional stories/movies or just ignorance, but people think that there was a struggle between 'good" and "bad" in arab spring. In history, revolutions have never been that black and white. French revolution is a big example where 1 group comes in power, gets slaughtered, another one comes in power, gets slaughtered, so on and so on. It takes many many decades, and most likely a century, for a revolution to reach its "conclusion".
Another thing: "Democracy" is never successful if we're hoping a country like egypt to just accept it the way "westerners" do it. Their thought process has to change: they have to answer "WHY do we want democracy?" not "we must get democracy". You cant just expect another nation with a different culture to accept democracy the way it exists here. They have to look at it through their own cultural and religious lens, and somehow find a way to connect their religious ideals with personal freedoms and rights. It would never work otherwise. For example, The US founding fathers got people against the monarch because they told them that their rights are God given, and that a king can't be a intermediary between them and their rights - this thought connected very strongly with people and I think was a great factor is US "winning" the revolution. The Arabs will always be muslims and they must find a way over time to reconcile religion with personal rights.
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Big difference in between using religious morals as a baiss for society's laws and actually enforcing a religion on the population. Every country is going to have some influence from the majority religion in their laws and moral code. However, this idea that we need to put up with theocracy in the name of cultural relativism is BS.
Also, what the "founding fathers" created was a very important step on the way to what we have now, but was a long way from what we have now today too. Women couldn't vote, slavery was legal, etcc. We should not be using anything that happened 250 years ago as the standard for now.