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