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Turning Democracy into A Dirty Word; Is Bush's Democracy "Crusade" Incompatible With Islam

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In Islam, this principle is totally wrong and void because truth according to Islam is that which is in accordance with the Koran and the Sunna - the tradition of the Prophet - , whether its supporters are few or many; and that which contradicts the Koran and the Sunna is false even if all the people of the world agree on it.

Absolutely, we conclude to the fact that it's difficult for Arab and Muslim countries and pro-democracy false Muslims to apply both Islam and democracy at the same time. So Muslims would have to choose between their religion and American-style democratic regimes.

I think as far as Bush administration's officials think that the Iraqi version of democracy is, however, taking a form completely unlike anything George Bush and his advisers ever imagined.

In short, as for the policy makers in the Bush administration, they will, sooner or later, have to face reality and deal with al Qaeda-type organizations and other extremist Islamic groups, as they have found themselves forced to play ball with the anti-democratic religious fighters in an Iraq occupied by their troops.

Today, it is reasonable to say that the failure of both Arab political Islamist and American-style capitalism to deliver the goods to the bulk of the population, leaves a probable majority of brave Muslim youths ready to try the Third Way of Islam (jihad.)

This article inspired an interview with the author, which will be published in the next day or two. When it is published, a link to the interview will be added to this article.

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Mohamed Al-Azaki, a Yemeni journalist and researcher on Islamic militants at the Saba Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Sana'a, Yemen.
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