Lack Of Democracy In The Arab World

As Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” The world seems to have embraced this idea, making democracy, at least for now, the most ideal form of government possible. Some regions of the world embrace this more than others. For example, there are no democracies in the Arab world. There are many different reasons as to why this may be, religion, culture, etc. However I believe that the main reasons that the Arab world are not democratic is because of their lack of belief in secularism, the economic structures, and western worlds war on terror and its influence on the population 's perception of democracy.
In the Arab world, the islamic religion is tied into everyday life. Islam itself is one the main reasons that people assume that the middle east has no democracies. While the religion itself is not a direct cause of this lack of democracy, it does have something to do with it. Since the religion is so entwined with everyday life, the population would like to see it in their government. As Elshtain put it, “In much of the Muslim world, secularism is equated …show more content…
They are wrong however. There are democracies that are predominantly Islamic in faith. Some may say that the lack of secularism has not stopped some countries from becoming democracies, one of the most prominent being the United Kingdom, however, although it does officially have the church of England as its national religion, it does not strictly enforce the church 's laws as the the laws of the land. The Arab world specifically is area lacking for democracy. Although there are other countries that have limited resources such as oil that are not democracies, these other counties are, according to Freedom House, more free. This shows that all though the oil curse may suppress democracy, it does not necessarily suppress