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Well fundamentally, its main reason for backwards laws (e.g. non-equality for women) is that the House of Saud derives its legitimacy from a rather orthodox rel
by Qwertious 11y ago
Well fundamentally, its main reason for backwards laws (e.g. non-equality for women) is that the House of Saud derives its legitimacy from a rather orthodox religious sect, in exchange for enforcing said orthodox sect's backwards religious rules.
Switching to a democracy would mean nobody need pander to the Wahhabi sect.
- PKop 11y agoThat assumes the people wouldn't vote for an orthodox religious government. I'm almost certain, for quite a while, they would. See: http://clarionproject.org/analysis/islamists-using-democracy-install-oppressive-sharia-law http://clarionproject.org/analysis/islamists-using-democracy...
- tomp 11y agoSure. That's exactly what happened in e.g. Egypt /s it didn't. We have to face the reality here; if the "religious sect" is so powerful that it can challenge the absulotist monarch, then it's definitely powerful enough to play divide-and-conquer with different democratic parties.