I honestly don't want Qatar to be a democracy any time soon because it would be a major disaster in my honest opinion. This is because the people are not ready for democracy, one of the keys to Qatar succeeding as a democracy is if they separate religion from the state for starters, something that is very unlikely to happen any time soon.
People don't want to openly discuss such a subject because of the credibility implications that will arise to the people making such a proposition, but the fact remains that there is no single uniform way of interpreting religious doctrine and implementing it equally, and this leads to the sort of tensions that exist in most islamic nations where people are vying for power to put in place what they believe to be 'true' islam. At the end of the day a man's spirituality is a subjective matter that has no place in the creation of objective policies and laws.
Some would argue that Malaysia is an islamic democracy, but if their model was to be emulated in most traditional conservative Arab countries there still will be calls for banning of a whole lot of activities there, activities that are legally sanctioned and give it the effect to operate like most secular democracies.
I honestly don't want Qatar to be a democracy any time soon because it would be a major disaster in my honest opinion. This is because the people are not ready for democracy, one of the keys to Qatar succeeding as a democracy is if they separate religion from the state for starters, something that is very unlikely to happen any time soon.
People don't want to openly discuss such a subject because of the credibility implications that will arise to the people making such a proposition, but the fact remains that there is no single uniform way of interpreting religious doctrine and implementing it equally, and this leads to the sort of tensions that exist in most islamic nations where people are vying for power to put in place what they believe to be 'true' islam. At the end of the day a man's spirituality is a subjective matter that has no place in the creation of objective policies and laws.
Some would argue that Malaysia is an islamic democracy, but if their model was to be emulated in most traditional conservative Arab countries there still will be calls for banning of a whole lot of activities there, activities that are legally sanctioned and give it the effect to operate like most secular democracies.