Tag: Democracy
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Tunisia Khilafah Conference 2018: Address by Yahya Nisbet
If you asked an ordinary person in the streets of western cities whether he voted in the last elections held in his country, the response would ... -
Democracy functions by manipulating people’s feelings
Data extracted from Facebook was used to provide psychological profiles of potential voters, who were then targeted with content on Facebook specially designed to influence their ... -
Suffragists struggle fought in vain
The 1918 Representation of the People Act allowed some women in the UK to vote for the first time in parliamentary elections, but has much changed ... -
In British Democracy Sovereignty is for Only Some of the People
A year and a half after the “Brexit” referendum, in which 52% of the vote favoured Britain exiting from the European Union (EU), there is increasing ... -
Let us not be Stung by Democracy Yet Again
Let us not waste more energy, looking for real change in the wrong place - aiming for change through democracy ensures disappointment time and time again. -
Rulers, Officials and the People– the End of Trust
People in Western societies are realising that politicians, rather than serving the people who elected them, are far more interested in serving their own individual selfish ... -
The sorry state of democracy
Democracy is failing so it’s ironic that Muslims feel the need to vote when the majority are disenfranchised and disillusioned The reactions to Jeremy Paxman’s Newsnight ... -
Pakistani youth ‘prefer Sharia to democracy’
Pakistani youth would prefer Islamic law or military rule over democracy, a British Council survey suggests. More than half of 5,000 18-29 year-old Pakistanis polled said ... -
Democracy… One man, one more broken promise
“The signs of the hypocrite are three: when he speaks he lies, when he promises he breaks his promise and when he is entrusted he betrays ... -
British democracy in terminal decline, warns report
Exclusive: Corporate power, unrepresentative politicians and apathetic voters leave UK ‘increasingly unstable’, says study A study into the state of democracy in Britain over the last ... -
Cameron calls on Islam to embrace democracy and reject extremism
• Major speech in Jakarta will praise example of Indonesia • ‘Democracy and Islam can flourish alongside each other’ • Extremists are ‘dangerous foe’ to the ... -
Cameron’s extremism and Islam: A dishonest salesman lying about democracy
London, UK, April 12th 2012 – In today’s speech in Indonesia, UK Prime Minister David Cameron called on the Muslim world to “embrace democracy” and reject the ... -
Democracy is the best political system money can buy
… and the ‘Cash-for Cameron’ Scandal is just the latest proof [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksrXY2EnUuk[/youtube] In common parlance the word used for trying to influence people’s actions by means ... -
Arab Spring: Islam or Democracy
One year on from the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings western media continues to portray these events as being motivated by a desire amongst the ... -
Super Mario and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe
In a popular children’s computer game, the Mario Brothers are heroes who save the day. In recent newspaper headlines, the new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti ... -
It is not inevitable that the EU – or democracy – will survive this mess
Europe may well muddle through with technocrats and tighter straitjackets, but the rule of the people must be guarded Are we all doomed? America’s fiscal democracy ... -
Phone Hacking Scandal Exposes the Corruption of Democracy
What Muslims can offer this society Britain is in crisis – the third major crisis of confidence in its formerly trusted institutions since 2008. The News ... -
Egypt secularists and liberals afraid of democracy?
By Omar Ashour Middle East analyst Nearly 60 years ago, the Egyptian military faced a similar political dilemma to the one it confronts today. “If I ... -
NOTW exposes liberal democracy as being rotten to the core
After the financial crisis exposed flaws in capitalism and the MPs expenses scandal the inherent corruption in the democratic system; the crisis in the media underlines ... -
Arab Spring: Democracy or caliphate?
The uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East are arguably the most significant occurrence of 2011. Spreading throughout the region like a wildfire, they have ... -
WikiLeaks Guantanamo files: “Collateral damage” in the West’s war for Freedom and Democracy
New secret documents expose the bitter fruits of US military intervention Press reports that WikiLeaks is about to disclose US files on Guantanamo detainees exposing abductions, ...
