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And I think the takeaway message from that would be that Islam, despite some of the skeptics in the West, has the potential in itself to create its own way to democracy, create its own way to liberalism, create its own way to freedom.
It makes me tense from the point of view of thinking about democracy.
And that was democracy growing up, but it was also science growing up at the same time.
And the question to me becomes: What do we do, as our science gets to be so good in looking at anatomy, that we reach the point where we have to admit that a democracy that's been based on anatomy might start falling apart?
If we look at one of the Founding Fathers of modern democracy, Dr. Martin Luther King, he offers us something of a solution in his "I have a dream" speech.
What I do know is that it seems to be really important to think about the idea of the United States being in the lead of thinking about this issue of democracy.
We've done a really good job struggling with democracy, and I think we would do a good job in the future.
And I want to think about the possibilities of what democracy might look like, or might have looked like, if we had more involved the mothers.
And maybe that's where we need to go in the future, when we take democracy beyond anatomy, is to think less about the individual body in terms of the identity, and think more about those relationships.
But overthrowing a government is one thing and building a stable democracy is a bit more complicated.
In fact, on Twitter, there were a number of people who were supportive of the revolution who said, "Well actually, we do want democracy and free expression, but there is some kinds of speech that need to be off-bounds because it's too violent and it might be destabilizing for our democracy.
Welcome to democracy, our Tunisian and Egyptian friends.
Where does that leave democracy aspirants?
And why are democracy aspirants falling behind?
However, if I ask your minds to focus currently on Pakistan, and I ask you to think of the symbols and the leaders for democracy in Pakistan today, you'll be hard pressed to think beyond perhaps the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
There is no equivalent of the Al-Qaeda, without the terrorism, for democracy across Muslim-majority societies.
So democracy has become merely one political choice among many other forms of political choices available in those societies.
And what happens as a result of this is, when those parties are elected, and inevitably they fail, or inevitably they make political mistakes, democracy takes the blame for their political mistakes.
And then people say, "We've tried democracy.
What I mean by that is, if the world superpower today was a communist, it would be much easier for democracy activists to use democracy activism as a form of resistance against colonialism, than it is today with the world superpower being America, occupying certain lands and also espousing democratic ideals.
Not exclusive to these things, but in addition to them, is propagating a genuine demand for democracy on the ground.
What that will do is avoid the problem I was talking about earlier, where currently we have political parties presenting democracy as merely a political choice in those societies alongside other choices such as military rule and theocracy.
And the question I want to explore with you is whether or not democracy has helped or has hindered economic growth.
You may say this is not fair, because I'm selecting two countries to make a case against democracy.
I'm going to use these two countries to make an economic argument for democracy, rather than against democracy.
The implication of that model is that democracy is a hindrance for economic growth, rather than a facilitator of economic growth.
Is democracy bad for economic growth?
And which one is a democracy?"
By that comparison, democracy looks very, very good in terms of economic growth.
Property rights: It's not the democracy, folks; it's having the rule of law based on private property rights.
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