Originally posted by Mr. Fitnah
Still hoping for an answer.
Wake up and smell the coffe, Fitnah. This debate ended the moment I posted my two devastating, earth-shattering messages (511 and 512).
In the long term, theocracies of any stripe DO NOT POSE THE SLIGHTEST THREAT to the secular, democratic world because this political system is just a anachronic, jurassic relic of the agrarian civilisations of the Neolitic Age that already went the way of the Dodo in the overwhelming majority of human societies.
For the historically challenged: Agrarian societies were societies whose wealthy depended primarily on agriculture (Examples: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt and China, Roman Empire, Medieval Europe, etc, etc...).
The mere idea of the modern techno-scientific industrial civilisation turning back the clock to the 12th century and adopting political systems based on religious superstition is as absurd as a return to the way of life of prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies. Only illiterate simpletons can seriously entertain this thought.
IN THE LONG TERM, muslim theocracies have an unavoidable rendezvous with the dustbin of History and there's nothing muslim theocrats can do about it.
But as Foxfyre and Ghook rightly pointed out, this does not mean in any way that the free word should let its guard down and ignore the short term threat this totalitarian ideology poses to specific countries around the world.