One of the unfortunate results of bringing representative voting to people who have only understood totalitarianism is that these same people tend to be the ones who become the totalitarians they have replaced.
It goes beyond naïve to think that an islamist majority culture would ever allow representative voting to actually represent anyone but a particular tribe of islamists. This dynamic of perverting the ideals of democracy operates right down to the internecine hatreds that separate the shia majority and the sunni in Iraq. The shia have a vested interest in promoting their clans and tribes. The wonderful liberty of democracy cannot be created ex nihilo overnight, and it cannot happen without the first faint ripples of respect for equality, embracing the sanctity of life and respecting the rule of law as opposed to the rule of the largest mob or the mullah with the largest cadre’ of goons with weapons and ammo. I don’t think Westerners had any clue as the internecine hatreds between the different sects of Islam. But school is definitely in session now.
Gunmen in Iraq kill family
Gunmen in Iraq kill family – Yahoo! News
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead eight members of a family, including a 12-year-old girl and five women, in an overnight raid on their home in Iraq’s volatile northern Diyala province, police said.
The attackers abducted two other family members, a man and woman, from the house in the village of Maamil near Balad Ruz, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, Balad Ruz police Lieutenant Abdul Jabbar Raheem told Reuters.
He did not know who was behind the attack or why the family, all Arabs from the Sunni sect living in a largely Shi’ite neighborhood, were targeted a week before provincial elections seen as a key test of Iraq’s growing stability.
