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Your comment being downvoted is just a symptom of how impossible discussion about islam religion has become, even in the west. What you're asking is exactly wha
by bsaul 10y ago
Your comment being downvoted is just a symptom of how impossible discussion about islam religion has become, even in the west. What you're asking is exactly what the AKP party has been trying to answer in its own way, as stated in the article :
"Thinkers within the AKP — notably former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu — harbored reservations about the compatibility of Western political and social institutions with their predominantly Muslim society. But the AKP leadership never acted upon this idea, choosing instead to undermine aspects of Ataturk’s legacy within the framework of the republic. That is no longer the case."
The fact that not a single muslim country can be called a democracy does raise some question about the religion itself and its current set of values.
- Certhas 10y agoThe downvotes are due to the ignorance and prejudice implicit in the comment. The AKP is an Islamic party and we've been discussing it's threat to secularism and democracy in Turkey vigorously for many years. The supposed (self-)censorship of which you speak doesn't exist. For the record, elections are coming up in Indonesia, the largest muslim country. And yes conservative Islam and Islamism are a threat to democracy in many democratic Muslim countries. Which is why it is opposed by moderate democratic muslims (like the 49% that voted no in Turkey). https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/world/asia/jakarta-election-purnama-ahok-basuki.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/world/asia/jakarta-electi...
- tim333 10y agoWikipedia has Indonesia as one. "As of 2012, Indonesia is the only Muslim-majority nation acknowledged as fully democratic by both Freedom House and Economist democracy indexes."