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Democracy, at least in theory, provides for the realization and protection of human rights.
Some 1400 years ago, long before the Magna Carta and the U.S. Bill of Rights, Western democratic principles like freedom of thought and social justice were foundations of Islamic society. In fact, democracy in the modern sense is not only compatible with Islam, but is virtually an Islamic system with a Greek name.
Many Muslim scholars say that the most positive aspect of Western liberal democracy is its political system.
'We believe we are the last victims of Hitler,' a group of Palestinians told me, "Could you imagine, if we were battling an occupation force - other than a Jewish one - for the past 100 years, that the West would have kept silent for so long? Would it have allowed the Israeli army repeatedly to shell Palestinian civilians by land, air and sea, killing hundreds and wounding thousands more?"
On my trips to Muslim countries, I have yet to meet a person who doesn't recognize the need for more democratic reform across the Muslim world. However, I have yet to meet a person who thinks the West can serve as a useful model.
Of women, there are ten I love.
She was a Sufi woman: I live by Faith, and Hope. Better I live for Love than for any man, Better I die for Love than for any land.
Tutankhamun has fascinated Egyptologists since his mummy and treasures, hidden in an intact tomb, were discovered in 1922. Perhaps the greatest source of fascination is why this boy, who ascended the throne of Egypt at age nine, died 10 years later.
Islam has no place for excommunicating a Muslim. Any person who chooses to declare in public that "la-elaha-ila-Allah, Muhammed rasul-Allah"; "I witness that there is no deity except the One God, and Muhammed is His messenger" is a Muslim.
Money-lending is an ancient human activity.
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