Democracy: An Arabian Value

For those in the West with little exposure to Muslims may look at terrorism and the lands that the U.S. has meddled in since Vietnam and think followers of Islam to be especially violent. It might be easy to come to erroneous conclusions when one doesn't have a living memory of colonial rule. However, what we have seen in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and recently in Tunisia and Egypt, is a peaceful demand for an equal voice and an equality of opportunity.

Meanwhile, the United States, with institutional and economic superiority, chooses time and again to use violence, even against fellow democracies. It is unclear if the citizens of the U.S. are hypocrites or terminally negligent, but right they are not.