[Strangelet]

here's the deal: if you want sharia law, then you have to make a willful choice to enact sharia law. And by you I don't mean Ian the immam or Calvin the caliphate i mean you as in the overwhelming majority of the people. As far as favorite flavors of government, I really don't have much of a certainty what is better, I just know that Sartre is right, we are condemned to be free. Which means we are born with absolute freedom, and are forced to choose our government, which means we are born under a natural order of democracy. Period.

communism in asia doesn't suffer from being communist as much as it suffers from shoving communism down the throat of a majority of people who don't want it. That is its biggest problem, it becomes the choice of a few directing the choices of the many.

Only by a power of momentum built by a vast majority can any government be a stable, working government, instead of a vicious despotic regime, regardless of its stripe.

So that's been my biggest complaint with your opinions. Not that you want sharia law over democracy. But that you won't let democracy work its way into sharia law without force. Probably because you know that force is required. But that's a failing on sharia law, not democracy.

Sorry, just being honest.