[SauronOfMordor]

These two examples show that there is a whole range of factors, some of them susceptible to influence or a change in direction, affecting the prospects for a successful Islamic engagement with democracy. Peace with respect for human rights are the most desirable end point, but the development of democracy will not necessarily achieve this or sustain it.

The Founders were not interested in democracy as an end in itself. They were striving for a system that would preserve Liberty, and a Constitutional Republic was judged the best means to secure Liberty.

Pure democracy tends to degenerate into mob rule, characterized as "two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner"

[xkaydet65]

You are so right. Those who idolize pure democracy alwqys forget that those pure democrats of Athens voted to execute Socrates for asking questions. Liberty is much too often confused with democracy.