why democracy is not flourished in most of Islamic countries?

Answer 1

Three reasons,

Poverty and Poor eduction is the first, demcracy can only flourish with a stable economy and educated voting base. Many of these countries have a regional and tribe loyalty.


Religion or rather the abuse of extremist interpretation of Religion. Although essence of the religion is to help bring tribal culture into a more tradictional society it failed and the opposite happened. Like any extreme it wishs to pull one way instead of foward, as in thinking, reform, techonologly.




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The support of Dictoratships, Groups ala Taliban, and royal families that favor US oil intrest. Most of these countires even the ones without oil are allowed to stay in power, or are backed by the US.
History show us that many of these countries were colonized by other countries and that effect to some degree has affected their current political development.



Without an educated poplulace and voting elections, change will only happen through violent overthrow.

the end.

There exisist extreme poverty within many of the Islmic countires, these people have nothing to lose.

Answer 2

Actually, two thirds of the world's muslims live in democracies. Indonesia, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, the Phillipines and Malaysia are all democracies either have huge muslim minorities (India and the Phillipines) or are overwhelmingly muslim nations (Turkey is 99.8% muslim, and Malaysia, Bangladesh and Indonesia are muslim majority countries.)

One might say "What? That's just six countries." Yeah, but aproximately 1.5 billion people (2003 estimate, CIA) live in those six countries. On the other hand, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Libya and Algeria, all nine notable muslim dictatorships total not even 0.4 billion.

Of course, there are other muslim dictatorships and other muslim democracies and democracies with muslim minorities. But I don't think it's fair to blame the inhabitants of these nations for their governments, much less their culture or religion. Almost all of the muslim world is "post colonial" either post British (Egypt, Pakistan, Yemen), post French (Algeria, Senegal, Syria), or post Soviet (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan).

Iran had a more or less democratic government until 1953, when their Prime Minister was removed by the US government and Oil Interests and replaced with the Shah. In 1979, Iran's people revolted against the Shah's autocratic rule. Islamists took over and the Iranians didn't succeded in establishing democracy, but do now have an elected president and parliament. You could call it either a democracy or theocracy.

Many post colonial nations, muslim or not, have had trouble with democracy. Vietnam, Haiti, Algeria, Syria, and Zimbabwe have all had trouble with democracy. Two of them are muslim, and the other three are not. They all are former colonies and are all poor.

I don't think Islam has anything to do with dictatorship, but being undeveloped and a former imperial colony seems to. Unfortunately that second description fits much of the muslim world.

Answer 3

Democracy assumes that man is not bassically good, so the person needs forgiveness. When a society sees the basic heart of man in this way, it developes a system of boundaries with check -and-balances in the political process. I don't know much about Islamic countries, but their form of government may be based on the presupposition that man can reach a form of perfection if he tries hard enough. Therefore, the political system mandates goodness on all.

Answer 4

the reason is most of the Islamic countries are ruled by sultans and monarchs and they do not want people enjoying democratic rights. Turkey, Indonesia and to some extent Bangladesh practice democracy .Egypt also. but the problem is fundamentalist want to establish Islamic republics ruled as per their own interpretation of the Koran

Answer 5

Because the Muslim extremist don't want it. its they're worst nightmare making there way of life impossible. Remember Hitler? The Nazi party was only 4% of the German population when he took power of that country. People are afraid for the lives of there families if they support freedom.Yet in Iraq the vast majority came out to vote. Thousands of Iraqi police officers have died yet the lines to fill out job applications go down streets and around corners. These people want freedom. Yet another IED goes off and that's all we hear about on the news.

Answer 6

A) There's a long history that goes back thousands of years. Many nations have conquered that region of the world, and the people have been split and divided for

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B) There's a lot of religious ideology that keeps the people ignorant

Answer 7

Because they don't want Western idealism forced upon their society. If they wanted democracy, don't you think they would have chosen that already.

It's not up to someone elses country to make you democratic. It's up to the country itself. People always have the power to change the government.

Answer 8

Look at the literacy rates in those countries (they are usually around 30% on average). Iran has the highest literacy rate (near 60%) and in its last election, the religious nuts elected one of their own to overcome their fear of the non-religious literate population taking over and turning democratic. (Yes, this is a simplification of one reason)

Answer 9

Give us a chance, in 5 years we've established two working democracies. We'll do it all eventually.

Answer 10

really you can't force this on these peoples after 1000s of years doing what they have been doing .i think the USA need to stop trying this on other countries .we can't change theses peoples