Army Officer
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM

Oh please...While there is little good to say about Qaddafi, he did have one redeeming factor - he eventually learned to fear us.The people who will replace him are just as bad - but not afraid of us, since they view the so-called "Arab Spring" as proof that the moon-god Allah is escorting in the world-wide caliphate in their lifetimes.If my choice is between a very bad man who is afraid of me and a bunch of equally bad men who are not afraid of me, it stands to reason that I would not rejoice when the former is replaced by the latter.Not only are democratic elections NOT a sure gateway to the Rule of Law, but the idea that Islam is compatible with democracy is nonsense anyway. None of the languages widely spoken by Muslim populations even had a word for "democracy" before the 1890's, and even then it did not arise from within Islamic political culture: they just adopted their words from Greek. Not only that, but Muslims are specifically told to subjugate non-Muslims when in power - which is clearly very undemocratic.Islamic democracy usually means "one man, one vote, one time."