Dear Inaam Rana,

By reading your post # 71, I have come to realize that messages # 36 and # 39 were not clear and they lead to some confusion. I will try to remove these deficiencies in the present response. We have limited our discussion to the “lack of democracy in most Muslim countries”.

  The term democracy is the system of government as defined by Greek philosophers and reproduced in my post  # 41

By “Muslim countries” we mean all those countries where the majority of population is comprised of Muslims. Muslims are those who follow the Religion of Islam.

So, on the basis of the religion, all Muslim countries form a Grand Ensemble or a Main Group (B) and the common factor (A) is Islam (religion)

Then on the basis of the system of government (D), there are two sub-groups. Since, we are talking of democracy, the presence of democracy will mean (D) is “true” otherwise “false”. The two sub-groups are:

(C) The “most Muslim countries”   where D is false and,

(E) “some Muslim countries”   where D is true.

Here, all three groups (B,C E) have the same common factor (A) religion (Islam).

In my early postings, I did not mentioned the sub-group (E), because I thought it was implicit that if you divide a main group in sub-groups, then there should be at least two subgroup.

In group (E) Islam (religion) is not part of the system of the govenment while in group ( C ) there is no democracy but, these Muslim countries claim to establish some kind of Islamic republic, Islamic democracy or a Islamic system of government which simply does not exist in Islam.

So, when I refer to Islam as against of democracy, I do not mean the religion of Islam, but simply the Islamic system of government.

A Democratic Islam (religion) is a possibility, if Islam accepts democracy as the system of government, On the otherhand Islamic (religion) democracy in not possible.

I am aware of all these other factors which are also responsible for the lack of democracy. If I observe all the countries of group (C), none of the single other factor effects, the whole group. If you find one please let me know. There is no need of doing a statistical study or fundamental research, you simply give me your observation that a factor (X ) is also valid to all countries of the group (C), along with Islam (govt.)

Your question concerning “most [Muslim] South American countries”, I fail to respond because I am not aware of any Muslim country in South America. Perhaps you do not mean the same thing by Muslim countries as defined above. Please be more explicit.

I have tried to be honest, objective and straightforward in my present response. If I fail, it is all my fault. You are free to tear off this argumentation with yours or that with some other hawk’s.

Regards