One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Islam and democracy can function together.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
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