Wild Turkey: Agree with you. My educational background does not allow me to look at a person from his religious, sectarian, cultural or political background. I firmly believe all nations and religions have good and bad people. They include my nation and religion as well. True, Democracy requires educated and thinking people. However, democracy requires more than just that. It requires educated, thinking, broad-minded people with a clean record to become leaders of a nation. Unfortunately, at least in the east and several third world countries. such people are totally missing on the stage of leadership.