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59% of Egypt believes that democracy is better than tyranny, but 80% of Muslims defend punishing adultery with stoning and the death penalty for anyone who leaves Islam. Believe in popular sovereignty does not recognize individual rights is not a Democrat.

The prestigious Pew Research study adds only three countries that either have already begun to suffer seizures or are comparable to those that are suffering right now. Jordan and Pakistan show similar results to those of Egypt, while in Nigeria Muslims who support such human rights violations are a majority just over 50% of the population.

Although no precise data on all the places where riots have occurred, the main exception to this collision between Islam and individual rights could be Tunisia. It is also possible that the population of Bahrain is more tolerant, but remember that it is still an emirate where there is a religious apartheid: Sunni impose their law on the Shiites but are a distinct minority.

The last thirty years have seen it grow exponentially the Islamization of society in much of the Middle East and North Africa. According to the Egyptian government's own statistics cited by New York Times, the number of mosques per capita increased eightfold between 1986 and 2005 across the country.


Olivier Roy, perhaps the best known world expert on political Islam with Gilles Kepel believes that we must distinguish between religious conservatism of the people on the one hand and wish that these values \u200b\u200bbecome the pillars of State for another. According to the article published in Le Monde, the Islamization of society has unleashed a stream individualist who takes confession and practice of each one as something entirely private.

Roy's approach is right to draw the reality that many Muslims reject theocratic regimes that have a direct line to God and broken communications with the people. However, too much to project onto them the privacy of religion that exists in the West: The Egyptian Muslims (85%), Nigeria (82%), Jordanians (76%) and Pakistanis (69%) believe that the influence of Islam in politics is largely positive and leave open the door for the state at the service of certain practices incompatible with human rights.

revolutionary outbursts by rebels who rise up against their tyrants claiming the sovereignty of the people give the impression that they are indeed democratic. The support or at least the silent complicity of most the population in many cases also confirm that first impression. When we kneel with peace signs or catch fire before the security forces or satrap tanks, our doubts will evaporate completely.

However, the role they expect of Islam in its institutions and its defense of punishment as the Quran states show that democracy does not seek, but beheading their dictators and make the most power again. Individual rights, without which the sovereign people licensed to lynch and kill minorities, are removed from the equation along with the emergence of a genuine system of freedoms.

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