In reality, there is not a single country to which they can point. There is no democratic tradition in the Islamic world. There is no history of secular republics, no concept of the equality of all people before the law.
Robert Spencer ( who I am sure is on a kill list of Radical Islamists)
"That would mean that the Constitution would have to give way to Sharia wherever the two conflict, as another Islamophobe makes clear when he says:
"Another howled that in Islam, “democracy, freedom, and human rights have no place.”
Still another yelped that in Islam, “democracy is evil, the parliament is evil and legislation is evil.”
"One Islamophobe went Carson one better, saying not only that a Muslim should not be president, but that Muslims shouldn’t even participate in elections. He had the audacity to claim that “electing a president or another form of leadership or council members is prohibited in Islam.' ” . . .
"In order, the authors of the Islamophobic statements I quote [in this article] are:
Robert Spencer ( who I am sure is on a kill list of Radical Islamists)
The first basic difference between the political system endorsed by Islam and democracy is that in democracy, the ultimate authority lies with the people. In Islam, however, the ultimate authority doesn’t belong to people; it belongs to God alone. That means that both the ruler and the ruled in Islam are subject to a higher criterion for decision-making, that is, divine guidance.
"That would mean that the Constitution would have to give way to Sharia wherever the two conflict, as another Islamophobe makes clear when he says:
Democracy runs counter to Islam on several issues. … In democracy, legislation is the prerogative of the people. It is the people who draw up the constitution, and they have the authority to amend it as well. On this issue we differ."Supposedly, in Islamic thought only Allah legislates. There is no shortage of Islamophobes who spew this hate.
"Another howled that in Islam, “democracy, freedom, and human rights have no place.”
Still another yelped that in Islam, “democracy is evil, the parliament is evil and legislation is evil.”
"One Islamophobe went Carson one better, saying not only that a Muslim should not be president, but that Muslims shouldn’t even participate in elections. He had the audacity to claim that “electing a president or another form of leadership or council members is prohibited in Islam.' ” . . .
"In order, the authors of the Islamophobic statements I quote [in this article] are:
- Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya,
- Renowned moderate Muslim and Islamic apologist Jamal Badawi,
- Syrian Islamic scholar Abd Al-Karim Bakkar,
- The leader of Iran’s Shia Taliban, Mesbah Yazdi,
- Australian Muslim cleric Ibrahim Siddiq-Conlon,
- Saudi Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Nassir Al Barrak,
- A Muslim group in Wales that plastered Cardiff with posters denouncing democracy and exhorting Muslims not to vote, and
- A Muslim group in Denmark that likewise urged Muslims to boycott elections.
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