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Since I considered Pakistan to be an Islamic nation (as I stated in my previous post), I was clearly using the former definition. And while it is not impossibl

Since I considered Pakistan to be an Islamic nation (as I stated in my previous post), I was clearly using the former definition. And while it is not impossible for Muslim-majority nations to be secular and/or democratic, it's highly unusual. Moreover, going back to the origin of this discussion, even in secular Turkey, the recent conservative movement there resulted in the banning of pornography in 2004. If you know Turkish, you can read the law yourself here: http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/kanunlar/k5237.html http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/kanunlar/k5237.html

morsch 15y ago
It's not unusual for a Muslim-majority nation to be secular and/or democratic. It seems odd to go just be the number of countries and disregard the population size. Population-wise, the largest of those countries are Indonesia (pop. 228m, 86% Muslim), Pakistan (172m, 97%) and Bangladesh (162m, 89%). Even if you do go by the numbers and give Bahrain (1m) the same weight as the large countries, the word "secular" pops up often in the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim-majority_countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim-majority_countri...