Comments on: Misleading Americans One By One… http://democraticpiece.com/2007/04/19/misleading-americans-one-by-one/ Tentative conclusions on democracy & governance Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Elections for Elections’ Sake: “the arithmetic of authoritarianism.”[i] : The Democratic Piece http://democraticpiece.com/2007/04/19/misleading-americans-one-by-one/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Elections for Elections’ Sake: “the arithmetic of authoritarianism.”[i] : The Democratic Piece Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:43:16 +0000 http://democraticpiece.com/2007/04/19/misleading-americans-one-by-one/#comment-118 [...] understand is that the parties have incentives to keep them in the dark, and this game starts – as I have argued before - at the palace. Interestingly, approximately 19% of those who cast ballots opted to write [...] [...] understand is that the parties have incentives to keep them in the dark, and this game starts – as I have argued before – at the palace. Interestingly, approximately 19% of those who cast ballots opted to write [...]

]]> By: tarek http://democraticpiece.com/2007/04/19/misleading-americans-one-by-one/comment-page-1/#comment-9 tarek Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:22:55 +0000 http://democraticpiece.com/2007/04/19/misleading-americans-one-by-one/#comment-9 Good comment... Just a few points: the reason the PJD condisers winning the next election a "curse" is not probably because they might not win an absolute majority (they could if they want)... but I think because even if they do the key ministers ('wuzara' al-siyada': defense, interior, finances...) must be appointed by the king. By the way this is one of the practical reasons preventing al-'adl wa al-ihsan from taking the decision of getting engaged in the current system... But the main problem with 'adl- wa al-ihsan's participation in the system lies elsewhere: the very fact of its sufi non-traditional Islamist approach to politics... The moment the movement was founded (1970s) on the belief of the sufi almost unreal position of its founder, Abd Assalem Yassin, it has put itself above all systems... Unlike other "extreme" Islamist movements (Muslim Brotherhood...) the theorezation of 'islamic democracy' is a bit bizarre from Yassine's point of view... Last year was pretty signioficant with this regard with Yassine's announcement of dreaming of the 'fath' (conquest) of power by the end of 2006 (Dreaming, ru'a, is a major belief in Sufi movements)... In other words the sufi nature of adl- wa al-ihsan is the major obstacle towards its participation into ANY modern (despotic or not) political system... Good comment… Just a few points: the reason the PJD condisers winning the next election a “curse” is not probably because they might not win an absolute majority (they could if they want)… but I think because even if they do the key ministers (‘wuzara’ al-siyada’: defense, interior, finances…) must be appointed by the king.

By the way this is one of the practical reasons preventing al-’adl wa al-ihsan from taking the decision of getting engaged in the current system… But the main problem with ‘adl- wa al-ihsan’s participation in the system lies elsewhere: the very fact of its sufi non-traditional Islamist approach to politics… The moment the movement was founded (1970s) on the belief of the sufi almost unreal position of its founder, Abd Assalem Yassin, it has put itself above all systems… Unlike other “extreme” Islamist movements (Muslim Brotherhood…) the theorezation of ‘islamic democracy’ is a bit bizarre from Yassine’s point of view… Last year was pretty signioficant with this regard with Yassine’s announcement of dreaming of the ‘fath’ (conquest) of power by the end of 2006 (Dreaming, ru’a, is a major belief in Sufi movements)… In other words the sufi nature of adl- wa al-ihsan is the major obstacle towards its participation into ANY modern (despotic or not) political system…

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