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So how will you determine when Egyptians can rule themselves?

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in response to reader comment: Until? perhaps you meant to say Unless?

Submitted by Schills (United States), Jun 21, 2012 at 19:01

If Muslims in Muslim countries vote for sharia law to rule their society it is none of our business. As Mr. Pipes has pointed out there is the sharia law of the Muslim Brothers, the sharia law of the Iranian Ayatullahs, and the sharia law of the Taliban. They are not all the same thing.

Free will is not a western concept. It either exists independent of external factors like locality or it does not exist at all. This is not to say there are not dramatically different costs in exercising one's free will in different parts of the world. I am not really sure how you plan on determining when Muslims are "ready" to rule themselves. How precisely will they learn to exercise their free will, practice democracy etc. without actually getting out there and doing it?

Like I said, the election of a Muslim Brother may turn out horribly for Egypt, but the election of Islamists else where has not turned into rivers of blood.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
5Islam is more primitive than medieval [190 words]EmilyJun 27, 2012 14:55196754
5Well answered -Islam is changing to the worse [123 words]Michael Hanni MorcosJun 13, 2012 12:25196314
8The liberal age revisited [266 words]dhimmi no moreJun 13, 2012 08:30196303
6Those days are gone [208 words]Michael Hanni MorcosJun 14, 2012 11:34196303
We never had Egypt to lose [76 words]SchillsJun 20, 2012 20:31196303
Islamic Liberalism will make a comeback [40 words]SchillsJun 20, 2012 20:35196303
1Until? perhaps you meant to say Unless? [273 words]saraJun 21, 2012 17:27196303
3Main Problem in Main street [80 words]Michael Hanni MorcosJun 21, 2012 18:28196303
So how will you determine when Egyptians can rule themselves? [167 words]SchillsJun 21, 2012 19:01196303
4Sad reality to try to convey [438 words]saraJun 21, 2012 19:29196303
Nasser is your example of a good secular leader? [271 words]SchillsJun 22, 2012 16:25196303
Islamist government [129 words]steveNJun 22, 2012 16:47196303
1No, Nasser was an example of a more secular period [304 words]saraJun 22, 2012 20:03196303
Democratic Islamists are more desirable than secular despots [95 words]SchillsJun 23, 2012 15:28196303
3tablighee nonsense [34 words]dhimmi no moreJun 26, 2012 06:56196303
2Debate About Are Islam and Democracy compatible [63 words]saraJun 26, 2012 17:55196303
4No Democracy in Islam [70 words]dhimmi no moreJun 27, 2012 17:57196303

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