Monday, March 12, 2012
"... when thinking about the notion of democracy and Islam, I would recommend to call to mind the example of John Locke... to ask how it is he came to be... ask from what intellectual, social, cultural milieu did he spring... ask what historical forces carried him and his views, his ideas forward and then, once delivered, what historical wherewithal not only sustained those ideas, but imbued them with new life and vigor... and then ask yourself where outside of the Western tradition could even the mere lineaments of those circumstances that made Locke ever exist without first being imposed by force, whether exogenous or arising from of an internal fracturing of a momentous sort...?"
