Benazir Bhutto's Islam And Democracy

In Benazir Bhutto’s Islam and Democracy, Bhutto thinks that Islam and democracy are compatible. Bhutto points out people misunderstand the relationship between religion and democracy in Islam world. She first proves that freedoms, the opportunity for education, and liberty are the elements of democracy which Muslim try to seek with the preamble of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan. In other words, there is no problem with their religion. Muslim does not conflict with the West or democracy. However, the terrorists try to rationalize their behavior by exploiting the real meaning of the religion. Muslim’s sacred religion is manipulated by the terrorism and ISIS because of political agenda. It causes chaotic calamity in the Muslim world because people will keep thinking that Muslim world is full of terrorism and dictatorship. Moreover, even some Western countries use their nation’s power to disrupt the growth of
The real meaning of democracy is ought to derive from many culture. Therefore, the institutional Islamist can also accomplish the liberal and real democracy. In Bassam Tibi’s article, he states ‘‘The claim of democracy to universality is generally acceptable to Muslims who subscribe to forms of civil Islam’’ (Bassam 141). Bassam believes that no matter what kind of rule which Muslim follows, the fact that Islam world adopt the western democracy is undeniable. The difference between western democracy and Islamic democracy is that Islam believes their religious practice can be applied to the public issue. Furthermore, people cannot deny the development of democracy in Islam just because Muslim-majority places do not totally follow the so-called liberal democracy. Even though Islamists refuse to accept secular democracy, it is not a contradiction. Miranda