Re: Are Islam and Democracy Incompatible?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JTEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"AE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

>> This has nothing to do with Islam but is generally true:
>> Democracy can't exist if laws are given by God and that way
>> immutable. It requires that laws are given by humans and that
>> way can be chanched or removed by humans.

>What I don't understand is, why is this supposed to be incompatible
>with religion?

Democracy is not incompatible with religion; in a straight
democracy, the majority can impose their religion on the
rest of the people.  Massachusetts Bay Colony was a Puritan
state and democratic, in the 17th century.

If a religion states that the laws from God are to be
enforced on people, especially people who do not believe
that this is where they come from, it is tyrannical.

What neither religion nor democracy are compatible with
is freedom.  AFAIK, the only religion which accepts the
idea of freedom is Wicca, and I do not know anything else
about that religion.


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