Tunisian Islamist leader and contemporary Islamic scholar Rashid Ghanoushi points out: “If by democracy is meant the liberal model of government prevailing in the West, a system under which the people freely choose their representatives and leaders, in which there is an alternation of power, as well as all freedoms and human rights for the public, then Muslims will find nothing in their religion to oppose democracy, and it is not in their interests to do so.” Many Muslims, including Ghanoushi himself, go beyond this and view democracy as an appropriate way to fulfill certain obligations of the faith in the contemporary world.

The Islamic tradition contains a number of key concepts that are key to “Islamic democracy.” Most would agree that it is important for Muslims not simply to copy what non-Muslims have done in creating democratic systems, because there are different forms that legitimate democracy can take. Iran’s President Mohammad Khatami, in a television interview in June before that country’s presidential elections, noted that “the existing democracies do not necessarily follow one formula or aspect. It is possible that a democracy may lead to a liberal system. It is possible that democracy may lead to a socialist system. Or it may be a democracy with the inclusion of religious norms in the government. We have accepted the third option.” Khatami presents a view common among the advocates of Islamic democracy that “today world democracies are suffering from a major vacuum, which is the vacuum of spirituality,” and that Islam can provide the framework for combining democracy with spirituality and religious government.

Your argument of a PhD abd a peon is NOT Islamic at all. It is rather a neo-con argument lodged by those who want to to defeat Islam.

Things will certainly improve if only graduates are to vote not every one. Illiterates are in majority in our country so current form of democracy can only elect Illiterates and rest assured they dont have the vision to take Pakistan ahead.

There is no way we are going ahead with this form of democracy. Quite frankly it is so embarassing tht my vote being a PHD is equal to my peon who does not even know what is constitution.

MAY ALLAH MAKE THIS MOB AS A “NATION”

MAY ALLAH GIVE PAKISTAN SUCCESS AT EVERY STEP

“AMEEN”

Sometimes it is easier to paint the person who is doing more than them as evil, some how wrong, therefore not feeling so bad themselves about being such a moral cowards and not openly forbidding the munkar.