Re: Are Islam and Democracy Incompatible?

neptune3 wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:03:17 -0500, Ron Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> > Are fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity 
> > and Democracy Compatible?
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> > Thank you,
> >
> > Ron Allen
> > Atlanta, Georgia
>
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>    I'm not sure if this question is pointed at me or not. It did come
> after my post though.
>
>   What Bush means by Democracy is that citizens get to vote for a
> president and other people. But the popularity of these people depends
> entirely on citizens TV sets. And these are the same TV sets that
> promote homosexual perversion, feminism, and everything else the
> fundamentalists don't like.  Bush's democracy is rule by the TV  and
> it the fundamentalists are compatible with that they are suicidal.

Actually Bush doesn't mean anything by "Democracy" -- it's just a
sound chosen by professional message crafters to elicit a certain
emotional response in the audience.  There's no causal or operational
relationship between the utterance and actual policies or events,
beyond the necessity to craft some events in consonance with maintaining
these emotional responses.  For instance, a big deal was made about
the Taliban's treatment of women, so as to justify bombing
Afghan rubble into smaller rubble.  To bolster this fraudulent
justification, there was a big media todo about an Afghan woman
(a legitimate leader and proponent of Afghan women's rights)
being a part of the provisional Afghan government following
the invasion.  But as soon as the cameras were turned off she
was kicked out of the ruling council.  The conditions for
Afghan women (and in fact all Afghanis) are as bad as ever,
but a belief to the contrary was firmly planted in the minds of Americans.

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