ROME, February 3, 2011 – Much of the Egyptian population that in recent days has rebelled against the thirty-year regime of Hosni Mubarak says that it prefers democracy to any other form of government.
At the same time, however, and in an overwhelming majority, they want those who commit adultery to be stoned, thieves to have their hands cut off, and those who abandon the Muslim religion to be put to death.
How does democracy protect it's citizens when they are obviously mad - it doesn't.
And although it is in the minority, support for suicide terrorists is growing. In Egypt, 20 percent justify this, while in 2009 15 percent did.
Returning to the death penalty for those who abandon Islam, called for by 84 percent of Egyptians, it must be pointed out that those who want it are men and women, old and young, educated and uneducated, without distinction.
In Jordan, the level of support for sentencing apostates to death rises all the way to 86 percent. It is only in Lebanon and Turkey that support is low, at 6 and 5 percent respectively.
Interesting comparison between Jordan and Egypt on the one hand in regards to a high support for the death penalty to those who leave Islam, and Lebanon and Turkey on the other where the support is very low, but not negligible.
Islam, when given free reign, tends to be pulled towards the extremes. Therefore, I think, the democratic demands of the citizens in Egypt will create a more fundamentalist Islamic state. There is no alternative, no matter how much the hopeful among us think that democracy solves every problem.
Related link: "Democratic" Egypt Sends Apostates to Their Death ~ Chiesa