Blame Quote by Tariq Ramadan

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

— John Fund

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

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

Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the 'right to be…

— Munira Mirza

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say…

— Anonymous

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, and…

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

— Heather Brooke

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

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

— Gijs de Vries

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi