Country Quote by Jamal Khashoggi

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

— Jack Schwartz

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political…

— Tariq Ramadan

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

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

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

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

The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal capitalists and…

— Tariq Ramadan

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

— Hisham Melhem

The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.

— Ehud Barak

Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

— Alvaro de Vasconcelos

For too long, America tolerated a 'democratic exception' in the Muslim Middle East. As long as governments were friendly and backed regional stability, there…

— Richard N. Haass