Tynan
2008-05-04 15:03:15
Turkey. It’s a democracy, and it’s Islamic.
Islam isn’t necessarily incompatible with democracy, and more than Christianity. If you actually read the Bible, there are many very warlike and cruel instructions which modern Christian civilization is content to ignore, while still being Christian.
The problem with the Islamic world isn’t that it’s Islamic per se, it’s the dictators who are using Islam as a tool to externalize blame for their people’s crappy lives away from themselves. Islam, as written in the Koran, is only marginally more violent than Christianity.
