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Now, if Islam and
democracy
are at present in a moment of great confrontation, what does that mean?
And the hopeful response derives from recognizing that Islam and
democracy
are technologies.
Well, all over the Muslim world there are people who take Islam deeply seriously, people who care about Islam, for whom it's a source either of faith, or of civilization, or of deep values, or just a source of powerful personal identity, who think and are saying loudly that Islam and
democracy
are in fact not in conflict, but are in fact deeply compatible.
It may be that there was a great war to be fought between West and East, and it was necessary on the axis of
democracy
against communism.
So, for example, a group of young activists in Egypt try to form a party known as the Center Party, which advocated the compatibility of Islam and
democracy.
What does it mean to say that there's an Islamic
democracy?
Well, one thing is, it's not going to look identical to
democracy
as we know it in the United States.
Tunisia's Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 as the only
democracy
that emerged from the Arab Spring is a legacy to that bold leadership decision.
It's caused a lot of controversy because people thought that this was the ultimate kind of one man, one modem democracy, where anybody can get out there and get their voice heard.
I believe in solar democracy: solar energy for everyone, everywhere.
And our work is guided by the principle that dialogue across difference is essential to a functioning democracy, and that journalism and journalists have a multifaceted role to play in supporting that.
And we do it knowing
democracy
depends on our ability to address our shared problems together.
So lead with curiosity, emphasize discussion not debate, get out of your silo, because real connection across difference ... this is a salve that our
democracy
sorely needs.
Your country talks about democracy, but you support corrupt governments like my own.
We are what happens to a western
democracy
when a hundred years of electoral laws are disrupted by technology.
Our
democracy
is broken, our laws don't work anymore, and it's not me saying this, it's our parliament published a report saying this.
Because what the Brexit vote demonstrates is that liberal
democracy
is broken.
Democracy
is not guaranteed, and it is not inevitable, and we have to fight and we have to win and we cannot let these tech companies have this unchecked power.
And being in this process of being in a community that reasons from shared evidence to conclusions, I believe, teaches us about
democracy.
Not only is there a relationship between the ethics of science and the ethics of being a citizen in democracy, but there has been, historically, a relationship between how people think about space and time, and what the cosmos is, and how people think about the society that they live in.
Now, if you think about
democracy
from this perspective, a new pluralistic notion of
democracy
would be one that recognizes that there are many different interests, many different agendas, many different individuals, many different points of view.
Any actor in a
democracy
is embedded in a network of relationships.
At a macro level, he thought, you know, we talk about
democracy
promotion, but we do it in a way sometimes that's an affront to people's dignity.
It's this
democracy
of 10,000 cells that all have to fire in unison for the pacemaker to work correctly.
We can recover
democracy
from the people who have captured it.
Representative
democracy
should be tempered by participatory
democracy
so that we can refine our political choices, and that choice should be exercised as much as possible at the local level.
But in a time when the world's problems are more complex and people are more polarized, using science to help us understand how we interact and make decisions will hopefully spark interesting new ways to construct a better
democracy.
And so for the sake of individuals like Rana Ayyub and the sake of our democracy, we need to do something right now.
Political cartoons were born with democracy, and they are challenged when freedom is.
This, in the end, is about
democracy.
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