Eh? Have you forgotten how the Caliph was chosen way back in the early days of Islam after the death of the Prophet(saw)?

Democratic Elections that's how.

In fact, the word "Democracy" is essentially and Arabic word made up from transliterations of the words Idhmamah, root word "Dham", and the word "Kursiy".

"Dham" is a group or bundle, "Kursiy" means chair. So "Democracy" means a group of chairs or representatives taken from the arabic roots of the word.

Amazing what you can learn when studying a different language

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Uh... I'm pretty sure that the etymology of Democracy comes from the Greek "Rule by the People."

Anyway, if you read my post, I said that democracy is not incompatible with Shariah.

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Why?

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"Well done Dubya. You freakin' imbecile." - ViolaLee

Why would it be?

(I forget if English is your first language, so just in case there is a translation problem, I'm saying that Democracy and Sharia can work in the same system, that is to say, they are compatible, not incompatible.)

Now that that's cleared up, why would Sharia interfere with democracy?

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

I was always told the same. Demos Kratos ?

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Viva Fidel

"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

This is exactly right. In fact, in recent studies when asked what they like most about the west, Arabs responded that they really like our political and economic freedoms.

There is a reason for this. Muslim nations were colonized by Europe and Muslims were drafted into the armed forces to fight Europe's world wars. Immigration and movement of Muslim persons during that time was huge. Muslims do like the political and economic openess, but with how quickly their numbers grew in Europe they were rejected by the European population (like the rift we see between the French and the Muslim French. and the Brits and the Pakistani Brits. These rifts causes hard condtions for immigrants and the racism poalrizes them. The second generation become more radicalized and moves more toward the conservative end of the spectrum as they are rejected by western culture they seek out more conservative eastern culture.

The United States hasn't had this problem because

1.) we didn't have the floods of middle Eastern immigrants that Europe did (though we do have a significant ammount)

2.) Whereas immigrants such as Pakistanis are quite poor on average in the UK, they are doing really well economically here in the US and they feel less discriminated against, thus we have less problems with them and integrating them is easier.