Islam And Democracy

This religious study will compare and contrast the premise of democracy ands freedom in the Islamic religion in “Islam and Democracy” by John L. Esposito and John O. Voll and “Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy” by Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama’s (2006) argument against democracy in Islamic society is founded on the “identity politics” of modernization that creates tyrannical fundamentalist terrorist ideology after the attacks of 9./11. In contrast to this view, Esposito and Voll (2001) define complexity of Islamic governance that supports democracy and other forms of government. In this way, the “monolithic” description of Islam as a monarchical/terrorist society is an artificial construct of western societies. However, Esposito and

Esposito and John O. Voll and “Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy” by Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama (2006) provides a radicalized view of fundamentalist ideology as being a dominant them in the “modern” Islamic world. This radicalization of Islam is seen as a war against the democratic principles of western society, which have shifted many Muslim’s away from democratic forms of governance. In contrast to this form of radical identity politics, Esposito and Voll (2001) argue that the Quran and other modern Islamic scholars rarely implement radical forms of Islam in the 21st century. In similar ways, Fukuyama (2006) and Esposito and Voll (2001) agree that radical fundamentalism is not part of a traditional view of governance, since a majority of Muslim people often practices a dynamic blend of democratic and Islamic governance. These are important similarities and contrasting approaches to democracy in Islam, which Fukuyama (2006) and Esposito and Voll (2001) bring froth in this debate on radical and non-radical ideologies of modern Islamic governmental practices. The idea of democracy in the Islamic world presents varying levels of religious and secular aspects of governing, which often do not involve radical or fundamentalist views of governing in the 21st