Is the right thing to go to war with a theocratic country in order to establish democracy there?

Question

Moslems firmly reject democracy and have chosen to follow the Koran. Why do Americans believe it is our duty to impose our belief system on a culture that has been around for centuries longer than ours?

Yes, I have read a great deal of the Kuran and taken religious instruction. Muslims follow the law of the Koran and not any secular government. Do your research

Please make the separation between Islam and dictatorship. True Islam, just like true Christianity, is very liberating. Dictatorship, by its very definition, is not.
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Answer 1

Bush is the first president to be elected based on his theocracy not his democracy. Republicans and the religious right wings impose their belief systems onto our own citizens and then get reelected. I think this encourages their zeal, and they really think they are doing the right thing.

Answer 2

1) You totally misunderstand the purpose of the Iraq war, and the war in Afghanistan. It was not about "imposing" a democratic form of government, but about fighting terrorism.

2) You are making a blanket statement that Moslems firmly reject democratic government in favor of a theocratic dictatorship. What is your evidence for this? The only theocratically based Moslem government is Iran. All other predominately Moslem states are either secular monarchies, dictatorships or republics/democracies. The secular monarchies are not run by immams, but long-seated dynasties (as in Saudi Arabia or Jordan). Though certain of those nations have a strong Islamic influence on their legal systems, they are not theocracies.

Answer 3

Iraq had a parliamentary democracy after the British left, but then the dictators revolted and took power. Now, they once again have a democrating government and support it overwhelmingly.

Afghanistan also has a democratic government, and support it overwhelmingly.

Turkey is a functioning democracy, in a 98% muslim country.

Egypt and Jordan are working towards reform and democracy.

Most Iranians would dearly love to have a democratic country.

People once said the same thing about East Asia, and now look at Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

No, it is you who are wrong. People in fact do yearn for freedom. The resistance to the change by only by some, yet enough sometimes to slow the process.

Answer 4

Yep, sure is.

If you mean right from a moral standpoint, meh, probably not.

But politics is not morality, and they need to be put down hard and brought into the 21st century...heck the 19th century would be close enough, for that matter.

Their ideology is incompatible with ours...they have hurt us...it's time to lay the smack down and rub out their ideology, if at all possible, to prevent it happening again.

They may have been around longer than us, but what have they done with it? There was a time that their culture was on the cutting edge of modernity...they've stagnated, and as with all stagnant cultures, they're going to be pushed aside, as we will eventually when we stagnate.

Here's to hoping that's a long time down the road.

Answer 5

It is a mistake to believe in political rhetoric that says we went to Iraq to impose our way of life, steal oil, or spread democratic values. Thats just not what it was about it.

It was about Al Queda having fled Afghanistan and begin to make ties with Saddam, and failed intelligence that suggested Saddam still have biological and chemical weapons that in al queda's hands would cause great harm. People want to blame Bush for the mistake; but the truth is nearly every world leader and opposition leader to Bush made the same assumption.

Answer 6

Well, when Muslim leaders are killing other muslims just because they are of different tribes, are oppressing the rights of women and treating them like property, and threatening the security of other countries around them, yes they need to be overthrown.
You make this broad statement that "Moslems" as in all of them, yet Iraqi's went to the polls in huge numbers and showed they want a democracy, and the vast majority of them are Moslem, so you just had your entire statement proven wrong.

Answer 7

who told you that following the Qur'an means the lack of democracy?Have you ever read the Qur'an..i doubt that..to your knowledge ..Islam if understood well,is the unlimited democracy but unfortunately,the lack of democracy is not coming from following Islamic rules but from the Arab presidents who wants to stay in power forever and of course they are backed secretly from America as long as they do whatever it wants.In this war the us is not imposing anything..it's stealing the Iraqi oil , rapping women in prisons and killing with no mercy..if that what the us is trying to impose ,then excuse me you know nothing about Islam.

Answer 8

See that answer from Jedi. Doesn't that just make the reasons self evident. Religions teach people to feel that way. That's why the war is there in the first place. There's always a plausible, noble sounding excuse: to establish DEMOCRACY, to CHRISTIANIZE THE PEOPLE, to HELP THEM. Who has the balls to say they do all for THEMSELVES?

Answer 9

Muslims do NOT reject democracy! They embrace it every where it is. Brutal murderous rule from the likes of Saddam have not be around for centruies.

Try to keep an open mind & think some.
good luck

Answer 10

Yes, a war can be justified if the theocratic country commits crimes against its own people and foments wars against other countries. It is supposed to be the job of the UN to prevent such crimes and wars, but since the UN is as useful as boobs on a boar, the US ends up having to do it.

Answer 11

I don't know is it ok for a theocratic country to go to war with us to establish Theocracy here? Whats more is it ok for those theocratic terrorists to send two planes into the WTC and kill over 3000 people in the name of God?