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Democracy, at least in theory, provides for the realization and protection of human rights.
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.
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.
Desire Munyaneza got the bad news on October 29.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top-secret studies, the "Human Radiation Experiments," done over a period of 30 years, in which the US conducted radiation experiments on as many as 20,000 vulnerable US citizens.
On a recent CBC Radio program The Current, with Anna Maria Tremonti, Jonathan Kay, National Post Managing Editor and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, insisted that the shooting at the Parti Quebecois victory rally in Montreal, on September 4th is not connected to politics.
Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution which condemned Syria over its brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters and contained a weak reference to the possibility of sanctions against Damascus proved (again) one thing - that despite torrents of soaring rhetoric to the contrary from our leaders, international politics is not about doing what is right and in the best interests of all nations and peoples, it's only about the short-term, short-sighted, political self-interest of leaders and their governments.
One of the things that bothers me most about the Harper government is its hypocrisy.
Muslim community leaders in western countries are often criticized by people in the western media for not condemning terrorist attacks perpetrated in the name of Islam. However, these same critics almost never ask them to condemn Muslim tyrants when they kill their own people.
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