Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 02:50:04 04/02/03
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On April 02, 2003 at 00:17:29, David Dory wrote: >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. I submit respectfully the "muslim spokesman" is wrong. Malaysia is a democracy for one. So is Indonesia. Aaron
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