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2008-09 Venezuela expels two senior US Human Rights Watch figures over critical report on democracy in the country.
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!
2007-11-03 Those who support the Taliban and oppose me continue to have high positions in government. Musharraf doesn’t remove them nor has he kept any of the promises he made guaranteed by third parties. Yesterday (before Musharraf’s state of emergency), television channels broadcast a meeting in Bajaur (one of the seven tribal agencies that border Afghanistan) by a mullah claiming that he and his group will kill me in Rawalpindi (where she was scheduled to attend a PPP rally, now banned).
fact that militants hold open meetings without fear of retaliation proves the Musharraf regime is totally inept, unwilling or colluding in their expansion.
Our rapprochement talks with Musharraf have foundered in the quicksand of his failing promises. There is no move toward democracy. It’s either back to dictatorship (1999) or back to a rigged election (2002). Or Musharraf is replaced with a pliant interim government for two years run from behind the scene by the same military hardliners. They claim in 2 years they can push NATO out of Afghanistan and replace president (Hamid) Karzai with one of their own betting that the U.S. will be caught up in presidential elections for one year and it will take another year for the new administration to settle in.
The situation is grim, the risks are high, but I have faith in the people to turn around the problem if we can get a real election.”
-- Benazir Bhutto, in an e-mail
2007-11 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said that her government will not ratify the new ASEAN charter if Myanmar's junta does not release opposition leader and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
2007-10-17 "Yes, I am going.

Pakistan's future is at stake and I am going to Pakistan with a mission to see a peaceful transition to democracy and bring hope to the oppressed people of my country for a new future."
-- Benazir Bhutto, told reporters in Dubai

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