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2008-09 Venezuela expels two senior US Human Rights Watch figures over critical report on democracy in the country.
2008-07-01 Mr. Wilders’s film, “Fitna,” or “Ordeal” in Arabic, and his published remarks, in which he called the Koran fascist, were hurtful and insulting, but not criminal
-- According to Dutch prosecutors
2008-06 A healthy legal system should allow plenty of leeway to people involved in political debate.
-- Dutch prosecutors, in a statement when they rejected the complaints against Geert Wilders
2008-06 "That comments are hurtful and offensive for a large number of Muslims does not mean that they are punishable.
Freedom of expression fulfills an essential role in public debate in a democratic society. That means that offensive comments can be made in a political debate."
-- Dutch prosecutors, in a statement when they rejected the complaints against Geert Wilders
2008-02-27 The Islamic movements dominated Muslim political discourse in the 20th century. Political models coming from the west, such as representative democracy and accountable governments, were at best seen as tools to achieve an Islamic theocracy or at worst dismissed as unIslamic. Meanwhile monarchies, dictatorships and tyranny were able to thrive in the name of Islam. Much of the last 100 years has been spent politicising Islam rather than working for a just polity: the rule of law, equal citizenship and democratically accountable governments. The 21st century will see Islamist ideas dismantled by Muslims and western political models incorporated. Parallel to this, however, will be the Muslim challenge to present ideas emanating from the west as not un-Islamic but rather universal - a job in the past made difficult by colonialism and now by the west's "war on terror".
-- According to Abdelwahab el-Affendi, Sudanese-born thinker, author of 'Who needs an Islamic State'
2008-02-02 First whether America will face this next rough patch without losing heart. Afghanistan cannot succeed as a democracy, nor as a new state defying centuries of tradition. To remake societies is beyond the capacity of any nation. America as a superpower has global responsibilities -- but that's not one of them. Utopias have no place in geopolitics.
-- Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Minister Mentor, interviewed by Arnaud de Borchgrave
answering the question, "what concerns you most about the next 10 years, including WMD terrorism?"
2008-01-29 Muslims are indeed reproducing at a faster rate than the rest of us, and they will eventually outbreed us and become a majority: "One of the mathematical beauties of democracy is that you can look at the figures and be pretty sure how it's going to fall out. It's not PC. It's so saturated in revulsions that people can't go near it. [But] we should go near it... Just because there have been horrible abuses based on this [way of thinking] doesn't mean that it's not worth considering, or that it's so radioactive that you don't dare go near it. That is the defeat of reason."
-- Martin Amis, author, interview with the Independent
2008-01-13 In Hong Kong, thousands of demonstrators hit the streets in the first major protest since China decided last month to delay the introduction of full democracy in Hong Kong
2008-01-03 “Bhutto’s death has drawn the battle lines even more clearly between Musharraf’s military-backed regime and Pakistan’s moderate majority, which will settle for nothing less than genuine parliamentary democracy.”
Mark Schneider, International Crisis Group’s senior vice-president, latest report “After Bhutto’s murder: a way forward for Pakistan”
2008 “George Bush has enough time to bomb Iran on another pretext. He has enough time to continue policies of torture. He has enough time to continue policies of eavesdropping and wiretapping.
“We don’t have enough time. We can’t spend any more time temporizing, while the Constitution, the United States laws, international laws, are being shredded.”
- Dennis Kucinich in response to the argument that there is not enough time to conduct impeachment proceedings before Bush leaves office next January, Democracy Now!

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