Indonesia is the largest Islamic country in the world in population.
Turkey is governed by an Islamic party and is Islamic. Yes, they may
have some other religions there, but Islam is by far the largest. It is
also the only Islamic country in NATO, so far.
I fail to understand how you can "thrust" democracy on a country. How
can you impose freedom on a country? That is an antithesis. They are
free to go back into subservience anytime they want. On the other hand,
a non-free country faces great difficulties in extricating itself from
either internal or external domination.
I really wish you would have read the whole article I originally sent,
it explains at lot of this far better than I.
If Kerry is elected next month, he will pull out of Iraq before the job
is finished and the terrorists will win. Iraqi people will be
slaughtered by the tens of thousands and the US will lose all
credibility in the world. Afghanistan may continue in democracy but it
will be less assured of success.
The terrorists know this and will try everything to get Kerry elected.
To this end, there will not be any attacks on the US up to the election.
They know that if we are attacked, Bush is a shoo-in. They know that as
long as we do not see their work in our country, Kerry has a chance to
win; they want to lure us into a false sense of security. They will
continue their murderous work in Iraq however. They must stop the
January elections at all costs. If these elections take place, they
lose Iraq and a lot of their credibility and some would say attraction.
Denys
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of John Dunlop
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:58 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: US Politics
Denys,
Wait a minute here...
I was talking about countries that live by the Islamic ideology that
have no room for democracy.
Turkey is more western than Islamic.
Indonesia, Senegal and Sierra Leone I know little about .
(I presume you mean) Nigeria. I thought that Nigeria wasn't an Islamic
country.
Albania was Communist last time I looked.
Afghanistan and Iraq are having democracy thrust on them which was the
whole point of my post.
I live on the same planet, just see it through different eyes! :o)
Denys Beauchemin wrote:
>How are things on your planet, John?
>
>On planet Earth, we have Turkey, Indonesia, Senegal, Albania, Niger,
>Sierra Leone and now Afghanistan and Iraq, which are Islamic countries
>and are democracies.
>
>Denys
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of John Dunlop
>Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:34 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: US Politics
>
>Denys,
>
>Like Bush, you just don't get it do you.
>
>All this talk about bringing democracy to the Islamic countries...
>They don't want your democracy!
>
>They are ISLAMIC countries. They live by the rules laid down in the
>Koran which provides for every aspect of their society.
>They don't want democracy. There is no provision for democracy in the
>Koran. This concept of Democracy is a Western ideology which doesn't
fit
>into the Islamic view of the world.
>
>Why don't you and Bush understand this.
>You are not doing Islamic countries any favours by forcing on them an
>ideology they do not want!
>
>Unfortunatley, in the monumental arrogance expressed by many Americans,
>what the US has is the best and everyone else should have it whether
>they like it or not.
>
>Do you get it yet?
>
>Cheers,
>
>John Dunlop
>
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>Web : http://www.jdunlop.net
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