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Islam In America
Is Islam an Obstacle to Democracy?
By
Suzy Shuraym
“As Arab populations ‘pursue values like freedom, justice, equality, autonomy and pluralism, and new models of democracy and of international relations,’ the scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote in The New York Times this week, ‘they need to draw on Islamic traditions.’ But what would that look like? Does Islam encourage or discourage democratic government?” Follow the…
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