Are Muslims ready for democracy? The view from Denmark.

[Meursault]

Of course the Muslim is ready for democracy. In many ways he is more purely democratic than the Western man. And therein lies the problem: Islamic democracy is an illiberal democracy; it chooses raw majoritarianism over selective protectioms for minorities. Don't criticize Islam for being incompatible with democracy, then, but with liberalism.

[Meursault]

Of course there's nothing uniquely Islamic (or Arabic) about their preference for an illiberal, majoritarian democracy. Most people the world over are illiberal majoritarians. I myself am illiberal to an extreme, but my antipathy for democracy and my hostility towards religion tempers this. Majoritarianism simly manifests more frequently in Islamic political life.