Is the US a democracy with gerrymandering, voter suppression, and, basically, minority rule?
Is every state having the same number of Senators regardless of size a characteristic of Democracy? How about the Electoral College and a Supreme Court with a majority of justices appointed by people who lost the popular vote?
Why Muslim-majority countries need secular citizenship and law-making
"Islam and secularism "
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Throughout the twentieth century, several Muslim-majority states became de-colonized and independent.
Most of these states embraced secular constitutions, but they generally failed to maintain equal citizenship because of their nationalist and authoritarian ideologies that discriminated against ethnic or religious minorities .. https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/cornerstone/islam-and-institutional-religious-freedom . In such cases as Syria and Iraq, secularists even established sectarian regimes. This shows that even if a secular political system is necessary for equal citizenship, it is definitely not sufficient.
Why is it necessary? Because once a political system is based on a religion, it is almost impossible to define the citizens who do not follow that religion as “first class.” In Iran and Iraq, rising legal and political influence of Shiism has led the discrimination against Sunni citizens, and in Pakistan and Egypt the opposite has happened, to a certain extent. Moreover, several Christian and non-Muslim minorities have faced discrimination .. https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2019USCIRFAnnualReport.pdf .. by various means, including apostasy and blasphemy laws, in Sudan and Malaysia, among other cases.
Truly maintaining equal citizenship to all regardless of their religious identities is crucial for Muslim-majority countries to achieve democratization, consolidate the rule of law, and end sectarian and religious tensions.
- Even if a secular political system is necessary for equal citizenship, it is definitely not sufficient. -
Another fundamental requirement of democratic politics is participatory legislation. In Islamic jurisprudence, however, laws are deduced from religious texts by a group of experts—the ulema (Islamic scholars). Hence, Islamic jurisprudence inherently contradicts democratic politics, which adapts and transforms the law with popular participation and according to changing conditions.
Repeat: Why Israel is not a democracy Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 10:00 BY TIM WISE NASHVILLE — Webster's New World Dictionary defines democracy as, among other things, "the principle of equality of rights, opportunity and treatment, or the practice of this principle". [...] Needless to say, many Palestinians would like to live inside Israel's pre-1948 borders, and exercise a right of return in order to do so. But don't expect those who demand the right for Jews to plant stakes anywhere we choose to offer the same right to Arabs. Many of these are among the voices that insist Jordan is "the Palestinian state", and thus, Palestinians should be perfectly happy living there. P - Since Palestinians are Semites, one could properly call such an attitude "anti-Semitic" — seeing as how it limits the rights of Semitic peoples to live wherever they wish — but given the transmogrification of the term "anti-Semitism" into something that can only apply to Jew-hatred, such a usage would seem bizarre to many. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=55375128
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Semites, Semitic peoples or Semitic cultures is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group.[2][3][4][5] The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
And, not that it's particularly connected but who would say Trump is keenly interested in democracy. Well, yep, you know who.
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