Sunday, April 25, 2004

Democracy in the Muslim world

An excerpt from the latest column by Amir Taheri.

"....it is refreshing that, for the first time in more than half a century, the political discourse in the world of Islam is increasingly dominated by the democratic lexicon. It is interesting to see turbaned mullahs discussing Locke and Tocqueville in TV talk-shows beamed from "holy" cities."