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  1. me no dhimmi – the period between the 11th and 15th centuries in Europe was a movt out of tribalism into a civic mode, that enabled a market rather than peasant agriculture and set up the infrastructure for industrial devt.
    I disagree with you on China; it will be democratic. Most people in China utterly ignore the communist party; their key focus is on making money. Chinese work seven days a week and their agenda is to make private money. Not to spread the money around in a socialist manner. Multiple parties isn’t the criterion of democracy; the criterion is rule by the people, and the people must include a middle class. The phenomenon to watch in China is the rise of that middle class of private entrepreneurs. Did you know that in Canada we don’t have private property rights? They just set that up in China.
    I also disagree with you about Iraq; it is not a sham democracy but an early democracy. Please give it time. Again, it took the west centuries to transform from a rigid, church-bound anti-individual, anti-reason society, into a modern society. Kindly allow the Iraqi people a few years. As for its adherence to Sharia, remember our own adherence to our old modes up until after WWII (women not voting, women not working ).

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