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Originally Posted by mordwyr
Islam and Western democracy are incompatible.
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This isn't an opinion so much about Islam as about religion in general, but I do partly agree with this. I think people credit advances in science and education with the decline of religion, but a large part of that might also be the rise of democracies. People have become used to not relying on an all-powerful monarch to run their lives and protect them, and religion has steadily declined during that time period.
Think of the people who fight so hard for authoritarian issues under the guise of democracy, like those opposed to civil rights in the sixties, or abortion and gay rights, and what do many of them have in common? Conservative religion. And the people on the other side are generally far more secular.
Not saying muslims and christians are actually anti-democracy, but I think the more religious one is the more likely they are to espouse beliefs that are closer to authoritarianism than those more secular.