Sorry it took me so long to get back to you (away for the Celebration of the Chocolate-Dispensing Bunny Weekend).
don't know about Senegal and Mali, but the rest of your examples all oppress non-muslims in their society.
Irrelevant to my point, democracies are always oppressing their minorities. (Perhaps it's a requirement?)
Interesting how most of those ignoramuses are well respected Islamic scholars and clerics who reject democracy on Islamic grounds.
They can't be, because there are no "Islamic grounds" on which to reject democracy. Unless you use the term "respected scholar" to mean "someone who is Muslim, who confirms my irrational prejudices about Islam."
The fact that more than one country that is predominantly Muslim is a democracy, plus the existence of devout Muslims in democratic countries, who not only vote, but achieve political office
while still maintaining their faith proves that there is no inherent incompatibility between Islam and democracy.
I know more than a few Muslims, some of whom are "secular Muslims", just like the bulk of Canadian Christians and Jews are "secular" in that they identify broadly with their religion and its associated culture without buying into the more colourful mythologies or regressive extremism.
In any case, even the more devout Muslims I know are political and participate in the democratic system.
The suggestion that there is sometthing intrinsic in the Muslim faith that goes against democracy is the same kind of BS rhetoric that stated that skin colour and intelligence are related or that women were incapable of voting intelligently.
A better question might be "Is Christianity compatible with democracy?", since the nominally Christian countries seem to have messed up the system beyond repair.
