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Pope is 'elected'? elected by whom? Common Christians? Who can become a Pope? Can any Tom, Dick and Harry be 'elected' as a Pope only because he is Christian? What is your understanding of the 'Hierarchy of the Catholic Church'? Mud slinging is OK, but you must have at least some information about what you are talking.Islam and democracy are 180 degrees to each other.
Maybe thats why the Muslim khalifa is "selected" and not "elected" like pope.
That was exactly the reason behind the partition of Indian subcontinent. Remember 'Shudhi' movement?What if the majority is intolerant to minority and wants them all converted?
Pope is 'elected'? elected by whom? Common Christians? Who can become a Pope? Can any Tom, Dick and Harry be 'elected' as a Pope only because he is Christian? What is your understanding of the 'Hierarchy of the Catholic Church'? Mud slinging is OK, but you must have at least some information about what you are talking.
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That was exactly the reason behind the partition of Indian subcontinent. Remember 'Shudhi' movement?
Catholic denomination represents only the half of the Christan world; what about rest of the half? Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglicans, Nontrinitarians, and Nestorians? What about the Judaism?Your Points A1 A2 A3 A4 suggest that there are at least signs of a democratic mechanism in managing religious affairs of other monotheistic religions, except Islam.
Where in the world extremist Islamic clergymen topple elected governments and override democratic institutions and judiciary with their undemocratic but religious version of sharia (or whatever analogous)?we do not see armed catholic extremists commited to topple elected governments and override democratic institutions and judiciary with their undemocratic but religious version of sharia (or whatever analogous).
You have some problem reading simple English? Was I not talking about Indian partition, an historical event? Where did I try to relate that infamous movement with the present of India?Regarding your point B, What ever amount of past mishappenings to Muslims in India, they are still thriving in India and constitute a major percentage of population.
Good for you if you dont go into it; almost all of the Muslim population of the subcontinent is actually a result of inhumane Hindu caste system. By converting to Islam and to Christianity or other non-caste religions, they found some respect that not was possible otherwise. Forget about Auragnzeb, the father of Indian constitution, B.R. Ambedkar got himself (along with thousands of his followers) converted to Buddhism only because he was fed-up of the way he was treated being a 'shooder' even after so many of his achievements.Finally, almost all of the muslim population of the subcontinent is a direct result of a forceful and atrocious "mega shuddhi movement" conducted by aurangzeb, but I would not go into that as it is offtopic in this thread.
You need to take that pain if you want people to take you seriously.You want me to read some of the "uneditable" stuffs of your favourate authors, then sorry, I am not interested in doing that.
You conclusion is based on a single out of several major denominations of only one religion. Your comparison was already invalid for the reasons I gave in my last post; Basing conclusion on such incomplete and out of the context 'research' may convince you, but not the rest of us.My conclusion would be that Islam does not show encouraging signs of impetus and momentum towards democracy by itself and often contradicts democracy and complicates things while trying to keep in context, sharia and other forms of governance.
Given the fact that the thread is specific to Islam, why you brought Catholic Pope into this? Why you started talking about other monotheistic religions? These are your words not mine:Given the fact that the thread is specific to islam, I dont give a tiny ***'s a$$ to whether these religions(including catholicism or hinduism) are compatible with democracy or not.