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There is sadly some harmful rhetoric's Muslims spew regarding democracy. The ironic part is that it isn't harmful for anyone but Muslims themselves. What they say is that voting in a democratic society is against their belief. The logic behind their argument is that there should only be a sharia law or with other words, Gods law to mankind, which means any law passed by a person is haram and therefor Muslims should abstain from voting.
From a philosophical point of view its all good and well. I mean its their view and belief, and there is certainly a ground foundation to it. So where is problematic you ask... well, let me tell you. To highlight the problem, one need to know what democracy means to begin with. Democracy means '''rule of the people'' or you could translate it to ''power of the people''. Now that we know what it means, then lets us look at what effect it has on Muslims, when Muslims don't vote, especially in western countries.
In a democratic society, it is the vote which is the power. And to put it simply, if Muslims don't vote, they simply don't have power. Some of you may be aware that in Europe, the politics is leaning toward the right wing for the past few years. Even more centric parties are becoming more right wing oriented. So the question is, how come in a country where Muslim population is steadily increasing, yet the politics is leaning toward right wing. Some may argue that it is because of the very fact that Muslim population is increasing the politics is getting more right wing oriented, it is indeed, but this would only explain why right wing parties becoming more popular, but it doesn't explain why all other parties are becoming more right wing oriented, and the more left wing oriented are losing support. I make a long story short, it is because Muslims aren't voting.
Let me explain. For a politician/party the most crucial point is to get power, and to get power, they need votes. If the countries population is increasingly getting more right wing oriented, the politician jobs will simply be to catch their vote. So why catch their eye in the expense of the Muslim population you may ask. Is it because they hate Muslims? Far from it. They have nothing against Muslims, but the reality is if Muslims don't vote, there is no need to fight for their ''right''. Obviously they wont harm them in any way, and as long they don't get harmed, they wont care if they pass a few laws against Muslims interest to satisfy the increasingly right wing oriented voters.
The thing is that no matter how good ideology the party have, how good politics they have, how good politician they have, as long they don't have votes, they wont have power to implement their parties politic. Fighting for a minorities right that doesn't vote is the last thing in their mind, especially when they aren't under persecution, they rather fight for economic politic, social politic, welfare ets.
Those things probably already obvious, so why do I mention them? Well, because I need them to know the basics, before I tear their philosophy down. By philosophy I mean the idea behind that they shouldn't vote, because they should only follow Sharia law and not some human made law.
Firstly, if you wanna follow Islam accordingly, then you need to have that freedom to do so in the respective country. If right wing parties are getting bigger by day, and their sole purpose is to prevent Islamic and Muslim cultural influence in the west, they will most certainly work to implement laws that prevent you from practicing your religion freely. So in that sense, isn't the most logical thing to do, is to vote for someone who wont prevent you from exercising your religious freedom... Not voting because there is no candidate that is a Mullah of your choice has no logical ground to stand on, and is actually in literal sense retarded. In retarded I do not mean it as an insult, but as in literal meaning of it(just to clarify). Basically it is your religious duty as a Muslim to vote for someone, that doesn't prevent you from practicing your religion freely, and if you're smart; vote for someone whose interest align with yours.
From a philosophical point of view its all good and well. I mean its their view and belief, and there is certainly a ground foundation to it. So where is problematic you ask... well, let me tell you. To highlight the problem, one need to know what democracy means to begin with. Democracy means '''rule of the people'' or you could translate it to ''power of the people''. Now that we know what it means, then lets us look at what effect it has on Muslims, when Muslims don't vote, especially in western countries.
In a democratic society, it is the vote which is the power. And to put it simply, if Muslims don't vote, they simply don't have power. Some of you may be aware that in Europe, the politics is leaning toward the right wing for the past few years. Even more centric parties are becoming more right wing oriented. So the question is, how come in a country where Muslim population is steadily increasing, yet the politics is leaning toward right wing. Some may argue that it is because of the very fact that Muslim population is increasing the politics is getting more right wing oriented, it is indeed, but this would only explain why right wing parties becoming more popular, but it doesn't explain why all other parties are becoming more right wing oriented, and the more left wing oriented are losing support. I make a long story short, it is because Muslims aren't voting.
Let me explain. For a politician/party the most crucial point is to get power, and to get power, they need votes. If the countries population is increasingly getting more right wing oriented, the politician jobs will simply be to catch their vote. So why catch their eye in the expense of the Muslim population you may ask. Is it because they hate Muslims? Far from it. They have nothing against Muslims, but the reality is if Muslims don't vote, there is no need to fight for their ''right''. Obviously they wont harm them in any way, and as long they don't get harmed, they wont care if they pass a few laws against Muslims interest to satisfy the increasingly right wing oriented voters.
The thing is that no matter how good ideology the party have, how good politics they have, how good politician they have, as long they don't have votes, they wont have power to implement their parties politic. Fighting for a minorities right that doesn't vote is the last thing in their mind, especially when they aren't under persecution, they rather fight for economic politic, social politic, welfare ets.
Those things probably already obvious, so why do I mention them? Well, because I need them to know the basics, before I tear their philosophy down. By philosophy I mean the idea behind that they shouldn't vote, because they should only follow Sharia law and not some human made law.
Firstly, if you wanna follow Islam accordingly, then you need to have that freedom to do so in the respective country. If right wing parties are getting bigger by day, and their sole purpose is to prevent Islamic and Muslim cultural influence in the west, they will most certainly work to implement laws that prevent you from practicing your religion freely. So in that sense, isn't the most logical thing to do, is to vote for someone who wont prevent you from exercising your religious freedom... Not voting because there is no candidate that is a Mullah of your choice has no logical ground to stand on, and is actually in literal sense retarded. In retarded I do not mean it as an insult, but as in literal meaning of it(just to clarify). Basically it is your religious duty as a Muslim to vote for someone, that doesn't prevent you from practicing your religion freely, and if you're smart; vote for someone whose interest align with yours.
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