Tom Beck wrote: > >> Ok. Question: is democracy incompatible with Islam? >> >> Or is it possible to find some version of democracy that does not offend >> Islam? > > > With all due respect, this is not the question to ask. > ???
What do you mean? That there are two sets of questions, one of them that we may ask, and another one that we may not ask? Who decided which question is in one set and which question is in the other set? And, if a question is in the censured set, how can we know what somone else thinks about that subject? Or have I just made four more forbidden questions? :-P (snip of your dissertation) > >There are people who want to be ruled. There are people who want to rule. But >most people everywhere simply want some say in how their lives are run. Islam >is no more anti-democratic than any other religion. It's the people you have >to worry about. > What I have read recently was that Islam was *intrinsically* non-democratic, that the idea that we can freely ask questions [:-)] was alien to Islam, so debate was impossible. Alberto Monteiro
