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Originally posted by losthellhound
Everyone talks about democracy, and how we have to get it to the countries of the middle east (like Iraq).. Who says they want it or need it?
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You raise a really good point. I see a couple of responses claiming that Iraqi's don't
know what democracy is.
I think they might say they have seen the West practice it and don't want it. That's the irony of freedom--some people can choose not to exercise it (or cede their rights to someone else). While it may seem like they don't have control, uprising, even only to be killed, would be the only demonstration that they desire to take back their autonomy.
The bleeding edge of fem theory argues that women in the Middle East are using their burqas as shields against Western Freedom--which some of them feel is oppressive. That is, their wearing burqas is equivalent to our women bearing breasts. Now that seems bizarre to some of us, I'm sure, but that's research coming out of ME women's mouths to women interviewers--and I don't have anything to rebut it other than my own ideology.