Michael van der Galien
My answer has always been to educate young people like crazy so that they will learn to appreciate the freedoms of a democratic state. But what if that doesn’t happen, the masses remain largely ignorant and desirous of Sharia, and internal pressures become uncontrollable?If you are not the U.S. or Europe you may not have a lot of money to do this. You kick off such a project, of course, but it will take a long before you have the money necessary in order to truly educate the population. What if an Islamist party comes to power in the meantime and messes with the education system you put in place? Of course, you will say, they can borrow from the West. But what if history has shown you that the West is not trustworthy? What then? Well, in such a case, 'democracy' in the long term may not be in the country's interest. Aside from that, I firmly believe that countries in different parts of the world, with different cultures and histories need different approaches. The 'democracy' thing may work reasonably well in the West, but that does not automatically mean that we should just copy our own system and implement them everywhere else.
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