Fake democracy

Few days a go I watched an episode of "The view"; they hosted former United States Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice. They were talking about her experience with the Arab and Muslim countries that she visited. She mentioned that there were Arab men who wouldn't shake her hand, and another highly status Arabic man introduced her to his own grand daughter who were a Muslim and wore conservative cloths then she continued that there's actually hope for Muslim to be more modern or have more respect for women or whatever she thought.

Another incident was President Bush in Egypt, there was a conference and Bush deliberately missed the opening speech of the Egyptian president, then he kept on lecturing the Arab attending presidents on the concept of democracy and its importance.

Frankly, I didn't like the attitude of neither of them. They claim to have a deep perspective of democracy and human rights while they set their minds on finding only disadvantages and week links. That's nether fair nor objective. The Arab and the Muslims overcame many wars and troubling incidents over the years. They have defeated the "Romans" the "Greek" the "Seven crusade campaigns" the" Persians" the " French" the " British" the " Nazis" the " Israelis" and more. All were great empires and their people spend quite a while in the Arab lands, and yet, we haven't lost who we are the customs, traditions, religion and the "Qura'an" hasn't changed a bit. That is due to the depth and true strength of the Arab and Muslim character. So for Bush and Rice to ignored all that history and criticize the Muslims and Arabs because their women wear too much cloth. To me it is just shallow and biest.

Democracy is about respecting the other person's believes and not undermine them no matter how odd they might seem.

It is about the right to believe in whatever you want and not having people picking up on you just because they don't have as sold history as you do.

And it is most definitely not about people seeing only the bad side in you and ignores whatever good qualities you have, simply because they don't.

In my opinion, if wearing veil would consider being a flaw in the Arab and Muslim believes, I'd rather have than tolerating homosexuality and pedophiles.

Islam urges women to wear veil out of respect. A decent woman shouldn't be too exposed. Like a diamond that should be withheld out of sight until the right person who deserves the honor of having that diamond comes.

Anyway, I'm just speaking up my mind.