A Shattered Dream of Democracy: The Arab Spring

A Shattered Dream of Democracy: The Arab Spring

"I caught up with Valentino Colombo, professor of History of Contemporary Islam at the European University of Rome and Senior Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels, to discuss these issues which are of such great relevance to Europe." by Wlodzimierz Redzioch, in magazine, Inside The Vatican, February, 2013, p. 42

1. Could you tell us about the implications of the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood and the "Islamic Pharaoh," President  Morsi in Egypt ...?

Colombo: The rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, taken for granted from the start, is turning Egypt into the most islamified country of the Mediterranean....

 

2. Professor Colombo, why are there no really democratic Islamic states in the world nowadays? What is Islam's idea of democracy?

Colombo: In this case too we are confronted with a linguistic problem. Actually, Anglo-Pakistani writer Hanif  Kureishiu is right when he states that "Islam is incompatible with democracy." ... "Pakistan was created as a democratic state for Muslims, but Islamists are unable to be democratic, since they place religion before everything. Islam and democracy are incompatible."

 

3. It is impossible to discuss the future of Islamic states without referring to the sharia. Islam is a totalitarian religion, as it thinks of itself not only as a religion, but also as the foundation of society and the state. So the law of Islam concerns not only religion, but also the state and the whole of society. Is this law compatible with democracy?

Colombo: ... Sharia and religious freedom are incompatible. Whenever sharia is applied, religious minorities, Christians first of all are persecuted: witness the situation of the COPS in Egypt. The declaration by a party or government that the law of Islam will be the foundation of the state should put us on the alert.... We should listen to the appeal launched by Tunisian intellectual Lafif Lakhdar: "We must abolish sharia Islamic law. i.e., corporal punishment for the stoning of women for adultery and the killing of apostates. These things must be abolished in all Muslim countries to achieve sexual equality between  Muslims and non-Muslims, because inequality between man and woman, Muslims and non-Muslims, is to Islam an eternal and unquestionable truth."

 

 

George H. Kubeck, - In pursuit of the truth -  cinops be gone - Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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