Thursday, March 18, 2010
"... what exactly is it convinces us that Muslims don't think of democracy as simply another way of imposing a theocratic based autocracy? Our own history suggests democracy is the end product of a process of liberalization and a respect for the rights of man, not the source of it. If we go back to the beginning, although hardly a perfect illustration, but Athens was democratic, as far they understood it, before it was a democracy, as far as they understood it. And on an entirely unrelated but entirely related subject, surely it has occurred to someone who matters that Arabs want us involved, committed to peace between Israel and the Palestinians because they know these efforts can never succeed and therefore they always have some sin against the glories of Islam to hold over our infidel heads. This can't possibly be a novel idea... yet we continually act as if no one's thought of it before..."
