Democracy or Islam?

Submitted by Roy Weinberg (United States), Apr 2, 2006 at 15:21

The Middle East will never embrace democracy as long as Islam continues to be the dominant influence in that region. Democracy and Islam are enemies and thus are incompatible. Many Arabs see democracy as an attempt by the West to influence, undermine and ultimately destroy their culture. While they may hate the tyrants and dictators that rule over them, they find Western moral relativism and its by-products such as sexual perversion, abortion, rampant divorce, animal rights and radical feminism even more repugnant.

Unfortunately, educational programs and "other means" will not convince the nations of the Middle East that democracy is a far better choice than the tyranny and oppression of radical Islam. Sadly, we are headed down the path to a major confrontation between Western civilization and radical, militant Islam. The appeasement and capitulation of the Far Left in Western society to Islamic propaganda has convinced the Islamic world that Western society is morally weak, intellectually bankrupt and ripe for destruction.

Unless the West wakes up (and soon) to the reality that radical Islam is determined to take over the world and establish a global Muslim caliphate, then both Europe and America are as good as finished. The real educational programs and "other means" are needed here in the West to educate people to the reality that Islam is not a "religion of peace" and to the reality that Western liberalism is a dangerous malignancy hellbent on destroying democracy and resurrecting the rotting corpse of Marxism.

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