Interview with the Lebanese scholar Karim Sadek on Islam, Democracy and the Tunisian thinker and co-founder of the Islamic Ennahda party, Rachid Ghannouchi.
One of the main critiques of Islam often brought forward is that Islam is not compatible with democracy. What is your opinion?
Let me first say that even if we accept, for the sake of the argument, that the claim of the critic is correct, we should ask why is it a critique of Islam if it is not compatible with Democracy. Weiterlesen „«The way out for Muslim societies implies neither a wholesale rejection of Western notions, ideals, and achievements, nor the dogmatic application of an outdated understanding of Islamic principles and values.»“