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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 02:33 PM
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27. Okay, the inaccuracies are too numerous to mention, but here's just one:
"Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic."

Not true. Turkey is a successful Muslim democracy. Not only that, but it is, unlike an increasingly restive "Christian" government here in the U.S., resolutely secular. Think about it for a second. The United States is roughly 60% Christian, and yet the ultra-right, anti-democracy conservative Christians insist that the U.S. must have an officially Christian government. Turkey is about 97% Muslim, and yet every call for the government to be officially Muslim is turned back by people who understand that Turkey's democracy will not work if the official policy is to exclude certain religions.
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