Century Quote by Abu Bakar Bashir

The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make…

— Bernard Lewis

Islam and democracy can function together.

— Ali Babacan

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

— Vladimir Putin

And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

— Geert Wilders

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

— Noam Chomsky

The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make…

— Subramanian Swamy

I think the important point which I've been trying to get across is that Islam, from the very beginning, is strongly, clearly opposed to…

— Bernard Lewis

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

— Heather Brooke

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

— Homer

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

— Anthony Kennedy