I am not surprised

Submitted by Alexandros (United Kingdom), Nov 13, 2012 at 07:07

I have several times written that this was not an Arab Spring, but an Arab winter, not because the dictators were nice people and their regimes lenient, but because the new power submerging is not democratic but a radical Islamist movement, even harsher than the dictators. Those people who support that Democracy was not created in a Christian state, but in a state with twelve gods, so it can work in Islamic countries as well, they are mislead by the fact that they discriminate the religions, the essence of the creation of Democracy was that it was created free from religion, people believed in twelve gods but the rule of the state was not left to religion and that is why Democracy was born, the same happened in Europe, when Religion, and specifically Christianity, was implicated actively in Politics, only monarchies could work out.

after the rennaisance though religion had to deal with the spiritual world, which is and it's actual role, Democracy came back. The problem with Islamic movements is exactly the same with the problem European countries had during the Dark ages, they want to rule their lives by Saria, which is a religious law, democracy is immediately excluded as a possibility.

Islamic countries are going through their dark ages 500 years after the European countries and as fanatic Islamists are gaining more power the more the societies dive in the darkness, the possible destruction of these amazing monuments is just a part of the consequences.

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