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   From: abuttle@ministry.shoes.gov   
      
   "The Mayor"  wrote...   
   > He now plans to vote for the first time - and hopes other Muslims will do   
   > the same.   
      
   Muslims and democracy do not mix.  As we can see from recent history,   
   whenever Muslims societies experiment with democracy the result is   
   always the same: the Muslims immediately vote to install Islamic   
   Sharia law, and Sharia puts a stop to democracy.  Sharia does not   
   believe in democratic rule by the people, but rather absolute rule   
   by self-appointed clerics and ayatollahs whose only qualifications   
   is that they put rags on their heads and memorized a few verses   
   from the Koran.  And aside from voting, democracy also implies the   
   free expression and exchange of ideas, something else completely   
   contrary to Islam.  There is no free thought in Islam, just   
   something resembling Orwell's "Ingsoc" or orthodoxy from "1984."   
   There can be no intellecutal debate in Islamic societies because   
   there is no idependent thought, as every concept in Islam is   
   derived from the Koran.  Even debating apparently contradictory   
   verses of the Koran is impossible, as they have adopted Orwell's   
   method of "doublethink," so both contradictory verses become   
   true in Muslim minds.  And these are the people who think they   
   can participate in American democracy?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)