Why are "Islamists" intrinsically anti-democratic?

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Why are "Islamists" intrinsically anti-democratic?

by Abid Ullah Jan
(Saturday June 04 2005)


"Those who base their legitimacy upon a higher power do not intrinsically become unwilling to accept popular rebuke. It is the arrogant worldly tyrants, like Bush and Blair, before our eyes, who consider the millions protesting their policies in the streets as mere crowds. One man, one vote, one time in five years with no further right to be heard in between two elections make tyrannies, not democracy. These tyrannies make every decent human being anti-democratic, not just the so-labelled 'Islamists.'"

http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/15492
 
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RE: Why are "Islamists" intrinsically anti-democra

That is quite an interesting quote.

You could take it for face value.

And you could also see that the power of the vote makes them try to come up with an argument against it.

At least the vote is getting "them" to think.

A lot of different Sunni groups are negotiating to be involved, finding that they don't want to shoot themselves in the foot anymore.

Maybe...there's another way...
 
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RE: Why are "Islamists" intrinsically anti-democra

Even the non-religious secular types have the fever.
Their God is unassailable logic and so they got all the qualities of your average intolerant zealot.

And democracy is just a speed bump to them.
 
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RE: Why are "Islamists" intrinsically anti-democra

Nope.

I do not want to demean any of the top religious leaders who have lived a life of thought and and a life of bureaucracy in their religions. Although Sistani of the Shi-ites although highly religious and non-bureaucratic like most Popes, seems also extremely intelligent.
 
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RE: Why are "Islamists" intrinsically anti-democra

Most of them are. When it comes to fundamentalists, it is the failures in religious studies that go nuts. Ask those Christian healers that go on TV on Sundays (Falwell and others) or the AL-Sadr in Iraq.
 
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RE: Why are "Islamists" intrinsically anti-democra

Al-Sadr --- a very interesting young man, a rebel in a complicated way, shadowed over by the huge presence of Sistani, another highly revered and interesting man. I've been watching those 2 stories with great interest.

But as far as zealots, have you not noticed the God of the secular?

The name of this new God of the seculars, is UNASSAILABLE LOGIC.
 
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