Posted on 11/17/2016 7:17:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Given American policymakers' ignorance of Islam, "I am just worried about people like me running around with big theories trying to set foreign policy," stated famed intellectual historian Francis Fukuyama in Washington, D.C. His confession occurred at "Democracy in the Arab World: The Obama Legacy and Beyond," a recent conference that did little to alleviate the knowledge deficit among hackneyed Islamism apologists.
Fukuyama's luncheon address at the downtown JW Marriot luxury hotel focused on the cultural factors that aided the development of modern societies. While China benefited from the appearance 2,300 years ago of the "first modern, relatively impersonal state," Fukuyama said, the "Arab world [is] where I think the fundamental problem is" for human progress today. Although he worried that the U.S. had not made an effort to understand Muslim societies comparable to its Cold War study of Russia, Fukuyama's own knowledge of Islam was spotty. He described an often repressive and all-encompassing sharia law as a mere "balance to political power."
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The words “Arab” and “democracy” do not belong in the same sentence. THEY will tell you that too.
You don’t have to be a foreign policy expert to know that islam and democracy cannot coexist.
IDK, did Obama promise free countries as the result of Arab Spring? I am not sure what he actually is saying some days.
The sad truth is, that not all cultures are ready for Democracy. Even if they are, Democracy isn’t necessarily a guarantee against tyranny. It is overrated.
Arab people and Iranian people will always vote against a democracy, or to respect the rights of a minority. Lets understand this and agree.
That’s because it is NOT an “Arab” failure but a “Muslim” failure.
So if they are looking at the one for the cause while ignoring the other ... naturally they’ll be stumped.
Arab Christians are perfectly able to sustain democracies.
Islam is a political and legal framework for subversion and aggression first, a “religion” second.
Agreed. Democracy and Islam are both a system or type of government. Islam is disguised as a religion and people are too stupid to recognize it for what it is. You cannot have 2 separate forms of government co-existing. One must take precedence, which is why every nation in the middle east except for Israel is run by a king, sheik, mullah or some other ass backward type of potentate.
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If it eludes them, they are not experts. Allen West is the expert.
They love democracy. It gives those societies the right to oppress their minoritys.
The great Bush era error was in the thinking that if you remove Saddam, his Arab citizens would behave and create a sane democracy. Equal to the wisdom of training coyotes to be Lab Retrievers.
Khadafi used to brag that Libya was the only true democracy in the modern world. Every citizen got a vote in every election.
In other words, chaos with a ballot box.
I’ve got 3000 years of history to say they are wrong
If there are mussies in charge there won’t be a democracy
Wow. Where to start in a article, a group meeting and a headline that screams ignorance at every turn.
Just government in a worthy society is so out of date when one can shout “democracy.” Tyranny of numbers is so blessed.
They sure don’t
An early example of democracy is “Give us Barabbas!”.
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