miltiades wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:miltiades wrote:Only one form of governement can EVER be appropriate for the Arab/ Muslim world.
Brutal dictatorship.
What are your feelings about recent developments in Tunisia?
Parliamentary elections were held on 26 October 2014, and the secular Nidaa Tounes party, taking 37.56% of the vote, beat the Islamist Ennahda into second place, the latter taking 27.79% of the vote.
In the presidential elections, the first round of which was held on 23 November 2014, the secularist Beji Caid Essebsi of Nidaa Tounes beat the Islamist in the second round on 21 December, with 55.68% of the run-off vote.
Both elections are widely regarded to have been free and fair.
This gives me optimism for the Arab world.
Tim, my views on the Arab world have not changed and are unlikely to change any time soon.
A nation, any nation, that has religion at its forefront will always be stagnant in other fields, not least in the democratic one. Egypt too had fair elections after the demise of Mubarack. A nation that dishes out a punsinshment of 1000 lashes and 10 years prison sentence to a critic can never progress into the 21st century. The so called Arab awakening will commence once religion seizes to be the prominent ideology. In a thousand years from now they will still be ruled by despots and dictators.
With democracy planted in these countries sooner or later they will vote to move against fundamentalism.
