Erik: Your thesis about Islam and democracy is flawed!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 10, 2006 at 15:21

Erik:

Democracy pre-supposes secularism ('Ulmania in Arabic). In Islam there is no place for secularsim (there is no equality of men and women and there is no equality of Muslims and non-Muslims) therefore you will never have an Islamic democracy as it would be an oxymoron.

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