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Spain: Democracy Classes for the Imams

Filed under: General — by Jane Novak at 9:20 pm on Friday, February 25, 2005

That’s the Ticket

DS: One proposal calls for “promoting an intense cooperation” between state institutions and Islamic leaders “to make training in democratic values possible for the people who attend the imam training schools in our country.”

Another suggests providing state economic aid to Islamic leaders — similar to the way the Roman Catholic Church currently receives money — in order to “hold them legally and socially responsible.”

I think they’re already getting funds, just not from the Spanish state. Also its seems that an incomplete understanding of democracy is not the problem. A rejection of it is.

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Comment by Rusty

2/26/2005 @ 12:51 am

But even if they accept ‘democracy’, is that the real threat? Isn’t the real threat the rejection of liberal notions of individualism?

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Comment by FH

2/26/2005 @ 2:34 am

“Isn’t the real threat the rejection of liberal notions of individualism?”

Democracy can’t survive without (classical) liberalism, something parts of Europe will learn to their detriment.

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Comment by Ignacio Wenley Palacios

2/27/2005 @ 3:53 pm

The point is to build a link with imams with the hope of controlling fundamentalists in mosques. Building democracy understanding is the way to sell it to the public opinion.
I deem both goals to be failures at the price of enforcing disgusting new forms of political correctness, less not we shall alienate our muslim aliens.
And do not forget that the project will require a legion of experts and educator to be funded as well as the Muslim organizations.
Dramatic.

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Comment by Jane

2/27/2005 @ 4:03 pm

Oh Ingacio, how could I forget about the funding? They’d probably need an oversight commission as well.

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Comment by Doug

2/28/2005 @ 11:10 am

This is a European proposal? Aren’t there about 4 layers of beaurocracy missing?

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