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What is democracy?
Reader comment on item: What to Want in Egypt
in response to reader comment: Re: What to want in Egypt
Submitted by jerri i (United States), Jul 30, 2013 at 22:19
A democracy is a system in which the winners of elections has respect for and protects the losers. A parliamentary system is one in which the winners do what they want to the losers. A democratic parliamentary system is one in which the winners have respect for and protect the losers.In a democracy people have a right to express their opinions without fear of oppression from authorities (the winners).
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| social,Economical and Poltical issues [59 words] | Hailay | Oct 14, 2013 08:29 | 210444 | ||
| 1 | Shameful article in today's New York Times by clueless David Fitzpatrick [263 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 16, 2013 12:44 | 209020 | |
 Religious parties in Muslim countries [23 words] | Odin | Aug 26, 2013 02:32 | 209020 | ||
| Secularism and islam [54 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 27, 2013 06:43 | 209020 | ||
| 1 | The MB are terrorists and liars and criminals [49 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 16, 2013 10:14 | 209019 | |
| 2 | Morsi is a criminal and setting the world on fire! This was all planned [194 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | dhimmi no more | Aug 16, 2013 08:59 | 209013 | |
| 3 | Egypt burning and the 1952 Cairo fires revisited [215 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 15, 2013 19:37 | 208996 |
| 1 | Hassan Malek who is a nothing is to meet with Obama [241 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 6, 2013 13:27 | 208841 | |
| 3 | President Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood [294 words] | emmett | Aug 5, 2013 11:49 | 208792 | |
| What to want in Egypt. [75 words] | suren sukhtankar | Jul 31, 2013 10:45 | 208673 | ||
| Tolerance for intolerant [117 words] | Nazim Cairo | Jul 30, 2013 15:36 | 208650 | ||
| The MB are terrorists and liars and criminals [164 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 2, 2013 14:24 | 208650 | ||
| Between two evils [76 words] | Martin | Jul 30, 2013 12:19 | 208643 | ||
| There are none so blind as the renitently naive [154 words] | Doug Schulek-Miller | Jul 30, 2013 09:18 | 208636 | ||
| IHow secular is general Al-Sisi? [83 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Marc Joris | Jul 30, 2013 09:03 | 208635 | ||
| Our Government is Ignorant [69 words] | Dave | Jul 30, 2013 08:16 | 208634 | ||
| Islamists as majority or minority? [58 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | James S. | Jul 30, 2013 02:23 | 208628 | ||
| what to make in Egypt [13 words] | yehuda | Jul 29, 2013 21:50 | 208625 | ||
| A US erroneous view that Hamas would not win an election in Gaza is responsible for that problem too. [27 words] | Wallace Edward Brand | Jul 29, 2013 20:56 | 208624 | ||
| 3 | Outlaw the Brotherhood ! [113 words] | Soloview | Jul 29, 2013 20:41 | 208623 | |
| 1 | Now democracy has three enemies [77 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | anhusna | Jul 29, 2013 20:35 | 208622 | |
| Islam, Islamism antithetical to democracy. [19 words] | steven L | Jul 29, 2013 22:46 | 208622 | ||
| Political versus Economic [46 words] | CynicFan | Jul 30, 2013 15:45 | 208622 | ||
| 3 | Should We Accept Islamists? [84 words] | Ilbert Phillips | Jul 29, 2013 20:34 | 208621 | |
| 1 | Caliphate on the rise - In Turkey [148 words] | Mike Ramirez | Jul 29, 2013 20:17 | 208620 | |
| No Kidding ! [29 words] | Gary Clarke | Jul 29, 2013 19:44 | 208619 | ||
| What to want in Egypt [39 words] | Jana | Jul 30, 2013 18:19 | 208619 | ||
| THE ONLY WAY TO SEE THE LIGHT [108 words] | JACXQUES HADIDA | Jul 29, 2013 19:43 | 208618 | ||
| 1 | America stop meddling in Egypt [100 words] | NuritG | Jul 29, 2013 18:56 | 208617 | |
| Correction [112 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Bahi Habib | Jul 29, 2013 18:41 | 208616 | ||
| What to ant or to wish? [105 words] | steven L | Jul 29, 2013 18:15 | 208615 | ||
| 2 | The MB are terrorists and no more [89 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 29, 2013 17:52 | 208614 | |
| 1 | Re: What to want in Egypt [34 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Bill Pike | Jul 29, 2013 17:32 | 208613 | |
 What is democracy? [69 words] | jerri i | Jul 30, 2013 22:19 | 208613 | ||
| 2 | Egyptian Discontent [205 words] | fightfordemocracy | Jul 29, 2013 17:22 | 208612 | |
| Democratic Islamists? [143 words] | Dmitry | Jul 29, 2013 17:21 | 208611 | ||
| Islamist Democrats [107 words] | Andrew | Jul 30, 2013 12:03 | 208611 |
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