What is the answer to radical Islam? This is NOT an anti Islam thread

[richardhutnik]

badgenome said:

the2real4mafol said:

And you can't say Egypt isn't democratic. To be honest, is it that different to American or British "democracy"? I'm sorry but democracy isn't just 2 parties, its a range of choices and representation. A coalition is far closer to actual democracy than what exist in the USA or any single or 2 party state.

Sure, it's democratic all right. It's actually a very good example of why democracy is garbage and nothing more than a dictatorship of the majority.

Whatever their other problems, America and Britain have certain basic rights that are enshrined into law and which are (at least in theory) not up for debate.

As opposed to a non-Democratic Representative Republic, which is an unresponsive oligarchic collection of elites that aren't responsive to the wishes of the people?  Ultimately, either the government is responsive to the wishes of the people, or it isn't.  If you say "democracy is garbage" you don't want a government responsive to the people, but responsive to something else, and catering to a few.  Of course, you could the argue various forms of Minarchist, all the way out to anarchist, but that can end up turning into a battleground of abilities, complete with losers dying off.  Of course, seeing this (as most people do), ends up causing you to want to have SOME government out there, for SOME form of protection.