Hello World

SO here I am again attempting to start another blog in order to find an outlet for my thoughts. I have names this one 16-minutes, as you can see, and I have done so as I feel that my other blog was too ambitious in length. So I will now try and sit every other day for 16 minutes and write a blog of whatever I am thinking about that day. And should I run out of time I will attempt to continue the blog the following day. Anyway enough semantics and on to business.

The topic I want to write about today is one that I have been reading quite a lot about recently in the newspapers and always get annoyed that it is a topic of discussion at all. Can Islam coincide with Democracy? What annoys me the most is that the very question to me appears undemocratic. The very essence of democracy is that it includes everybody and that of majority rule. So a country that is predominantly Muslim, Islamist principles should prevail. So what I believe is that those people that doubt that these two can co-exist are more worried about how Islamic Democracy will look like rather than the failure of such a democracy.

It is needles to say that the democracy that will emerge from Egypt and Tunisia will be different to those in the Christian west. They will model their executive and legislative bodies on the democracies of the west, but I have no doubt that they will evolve into their very own and distinctive models. An one hopes that they could form the basis for other countries that might follow in the Arab spring could base their state body on these models. I therefore very firmly believe that this is not an situation where we should fear the outcome but rather should observe with anticipation how it will evolve into a new form of Democracy.

I am now way beyond my allotted 16 minutes so I will try and end this now with a thought that this topic made me have. And it is: Is it possible to have 'true' democracy only after a national revolution? I have thought about it and most true democracies (although with time the virtue of these democracies are now debatable) have come about after revolutions. So this is my question: is it only possible to establish a democracy 'for the people, by the people' after a revolution against a former oppressive regime? And in turn this begs to ask the question: Do once virtuous systems become corrupt and need to be 'cleansed' through revolution? I have once read this in a book about China, where the change in dynasties would always occur when the old had become corrupted and a new one was needed.

So there it is my first blog on this site. While I do not think anybody will read this and far more start debating the above posted questions (As I would very much like it to be). I have enjoyed putting my thoughts onto screen once again. And that just leaves me to say:

Thank you for staying open-minded