Re: It all boils down to a beauty contest (oops)

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 04:25 , Joel Rodrigues wrote:

And you don't know anything about Kuwait. It's the *only* democracy in the middle east ! The government there has even been trying to get women the right to fully participate and has been continuously held back in parliament by Islamists. Good grief man, where do you get your information ?

Oops ! I meant to check this for accuracy. It's not the only one, technically (there's Bahrain and others), but perhaps the most lively one. And it's not a democracy in the way USA, Austrailia, teh EU, Japan, etc. are. Baby steps. But steps.

http://faculty.philau.edu/smedleyd/Democracy's%20Uneasy%20Steps%20in%20Islamic%20World.
htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/292792.stm

http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal_vol7/0010_moore.asp

- Joel