Burhan Hanif, friend of tyranny, advises Australia to ‘shun democracy’

Burhan Hanif, who apparently is British, today told a conference in Australia that democracy gets in the way of Allah’s will.

“We must adhere to Islam and Islam alone,” Mr Hanif told about 500 participants attending the convention in Lidcombe [western Sydney].

“We should not be conned or succumb to the disingenuous and flawed narrative that the only way to engage politically is through the secular democratic process. It is prohibited and haram.”

He said democracy was incompatible with Islam because the Koran insisted Allah was the sole lawmaker, and Muslim political involvement could not be based on “secular and erroneous concepts such as democracy and freedom.”

Self-appointed despots. And just who would interpret the will of Allah to decide what is acceptable and what is haram? According to Hanif, the decision-making would be by a small, but all-powerful group of unelected men who claim to know everything better than all other people.

That kind of hellish dictatorial thinking got 262 million people killed in the 20th century, and that doesn’t count the wars, most of which were started because totalitarians wanted to snuff out individual freedom.

If Hanif enjoys oppression, perhaps he should hire someone to lock him up. No one would miss his bad ideas.

Frank Warner

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Hillary Rodham Clinton said :

KRAKOW, Poland — Intolerant governments across the globe are “slowly crushing” activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.
She cited a broad range of countries where “the walls are closing in” on civic organizations such as unions, religious groups, rights advocates and other nongovernmental organizations that press for social change and shine a light on governments’ shortcomings.

President Obama’s office:

[T]he United States is particularly concerned about “the spread of restrictions on civil society, the growing use of law to curb rather than enhance freedom and widespread corruption that is undermining the faith of citizens in their governments.”