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Subject: Re: There are no Muslim democracies

Author: David Dory

Date: 21:17:29 04/01/03

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On April 01, 2003 at 20:29:19, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On April 01, 2003 at 19:55:32, David Dory wrote:
>
>>An obvious conflict of freedoms: not one Muslim country is a democracy. Not one.
>
>Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan.  That's all I can think of now, but it would
>not surprise me if there were more.
>
>But this kind of stuff is more appropriate for CTF, I think.
>
>bruce

This exact question was asked this week to the government spokesman from Saudi
Arabia.

The spokesman agreed, there was NOT ONE Muslim country that was a democracy.
Not a single one.

Turkey is a secular country, IIRC, and Pakistan is a military dictatorship (he's
**promised** to have elections, though :) ).

You may think of Indonesia (which has a huge Muslim population), as the
exception, but I defer to the Muslim spokesman from Saudi Arabia. He made it
very clear.

Yes, this is off-topic, and I'll end it, now.

Dave




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