Can Democracy Thrive in the Middle East?

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With beliefs one cannot go to the grocery. The facts are exactly as delivered to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, above. One should always deal with scientific facts, but again, the strategy used is to attack, to externalize: colonialism and the US are to be blamed; we are innocent and righteous. See my article in Middle East Quarterly in Spring 2007 on democracy, exposing Western Islamist apologia, by using Da`wah, propagation, to deceive and to mislead Western public opinion and policy-makers. See also the large introductory chapter in my book: From Muhammad to Bin Laden, refuting the Islamists propagation. See also my article in PoliticalIslam.com/ concerning how Islamists quote verses from the Qur'an to mislead the Western readers. See also my Abrogation piece in Middle East Quarterly in Fall 2007, concerning the issue of Meccan peace and Medinan Jihad.

Da`wah is much more lethal than Jihad, since it goes and influences the minds - when the knowledge of facts are missing.

Talking about Turkey, it is only a quasi-democracy, and a very special case of veto rule of the military. It is contingent by the military which had intervened three times and dismantled the political parties and parliamentary life – 1960-1, 1971, 1980-1985, and in other cases had warned the politicians and changed the system. The military had toppled down Erbakan, the Prime Minister and the electing leader of the Islamic Party in the late 1990's, and has limited Erdugan rule today in Turkey.

Now, please, tell me: what kind of democracy is, when it is conditioned in good behavior of the politicians by the military? I suppose you live in a democracy. Could you imagine such situation? Could you tolerate military intervention and dismantling parliamentary of political parties and call it a democracy?