Whitey Ford
06-03-2019, 05:15 PM
Jordan Peterson: No Evidence Islam Would Be Compatible With Democracy (https://sputniknews.com/world/201906031075570178-jordan-peterson-islam-democracy/)
"It is not clear to me that Islam would be compatible with democracy," he said in an interview with Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet. "We have no evidence that it would be."
He said he'd failed to observe a "positive example of a successful, independent Muslim democracy", also invoking Muslim countries' generally weak record on freedom and corruption in international rankings.
"So there is a fundamental problem that is unfortunately not allowed to be discussed," Jordan Peterson was quoted as saying.
The University of Toronto professor confirmed in one of many Q&As last year that he does "not understand" Islam and doesn't know enough about it to grasp the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity, for example.
While conceding this, Peterson went on to say that secularisation could be the issue where Muslim and Western societies don't see eye to eye with each other, since there is "no distinction" between church and state in Islam, which persists in the West. "I cannot understand how [the Muslim] faith is commensurate with the institutions of the West," he added.
"It is not clear to me that Islam would be compatible with democracy," he said in an interview with Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet. "We have no evidence that it would be."
He said he'd failed to observe a "positive example of a successful, independent Muslim democracy", also invoking Muslim countries' generally weak record on freedom and corruption in international rankings.
"So there is a fundamental problem that is unfortunately not allowed to be discussed," Jordan Peterson was quoted as saying.
The University of Toronto professor confirmed in one of many Q&As last year that he does "not understand" Islam and doesn't know enough about it to grasp the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity, for example.
While conceding this, Peterson went on to say that secularisation could be the issue where Muslim and Western societies don't see eye to eye with each other, since there is "no distinction" between church and state in Islam, which persists in the West. "I cannot understand how [the Muslim] faith is commensurate with the institutions of the West," he added.