"But they will not cease to disagree
- except him on whom your lord has bestowed his mercy."
Koran: Hood (11):118-119
Omar bin Abdil-Aziz (died AD 720), said regarding this
Koranic passage: “He has created the people of his
mercy, in order that they do
not differ” (‘Ahkam el-Koran’ of
Abu Bakr bin el-Arabi (3/1072))
Party
System
The Maldives
to the south of Minicoy
Island with a similar cultural
background to Minicoy but greater exposure
to the outside world does not permit political
parties.
The Maldives had a political party called
the People's Progressive Party (Rayyithunge
Muthagaddim Paatee) until 1953. In 2000
the political party system was outlawed when
a group of people applied to form a political
party.
The official Maldive government line is that
a "party" is an occasion where food and tea
are served and has little to do with governance.
Minicoy, with a population of just over 10,000
people, and smaller than a Maldive atoll seems
to be coping with party politics without any
strife.
multi-party
small states
A Maldive parliamentary resolution
passed on 2 June 2005 allowed political parties
for the first time since 1953. There was no
explicit legal provision against political
parties until 2001, when parliament was required
to ban any prospective parties by passing
an unconstitutional resolution. Until then
no one dared apply to register a party for
fear of torture.
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Likewise Abu Mohamed bin Hazm said: “So The most
high, excluded those upon whom he bestowed his mercy from
being from those who differ. And He has removed those under
His mercy from being amongst the ones
who differ” (‘Ahkam el-Koran’ 5/66)
And El-Shatibi stated: “This Koranic passage necessitates
that the people of Iktilaf (differing and splitting)
mentioned are distinct from the people upon whom is bestowed
the mercy of Allah (the Islamic god)"
Ibn Wahb said: “I heard Malik (bin Anas) say with
regard to this Koranic passage, “Those whom Allah
shows mercy to, do not differ”." (‘Al-Ahkam’
(5/66))
So he informed us that the people upon whom Allah bestows
his mercy do not differ.
And they are those who follow the Prophets in speech and
action. And they are the People of Koran and Hadith in this
Commonwealth. And whoever differs from them in anything,
the he leaves the mercy of Allah.” (Majmu el-Fatawaa
(4/25))
Mohamed's companion Abdullah ibn Masood, said: “Differing
is evil”.
Abu Thalabah el-Khushani said: “When
we used stop in a place (during a journey), we used to separate
in into groups in the pathways and valleys. So the Messenger
(Mohamed), said: “Indeed
this splitting of yours in these paths and valleys verily
is from the Devil” So thereafter would not
settle in a place (on a journey) except that we would be
close together.”(Abu Dawud (3/94 – No. 2628)
Authenticated by Ibn Hibban, el-Hakim and El-Dzahabi)
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Abu Ja’far El-Tahawi said: “And we see that
the Community is true and correct and splitting
is deviation and punishment”. (‘Matnut-Tahawiyyah’
with commentary (2/775))
Ibn Taymiyyah said: “Indeed the Community is mercy,
and splitting is punishment.”
(‘Majmu el-Fatawaa’ (3/421))
Laith Kubba, "Islam and Liberal Democracy: Recognizing
Pluralism,"
 riana
Fallaci writes in her book The Rage and the Pride
that "Because our cultural identity has been
well defined for thousands of years we cannot bear
a migratory wave of people who have nothing to do
with us … who are not ready to become like us,
to be absorbed by us….Who,
on the contrary, aim to absorb us. To change our
principles, our values, our identity, our way of life.
And who in the meantime molest us with their retrograde
ignorance, their retrograde bigotry, their retrograde
religion. I am saying that in our culture there is
no room for the muezzins, for the minarets, for the
phony abstemious, for the humiliating
chador, for the degrading
burkah."
 adame
Bardot presents Muslims as barbaric and cruel invaders,
responsible for terrorist acts and eager to dominate
the French to the extent of wanting to exterminate
them", a Paris court said of former actor Brigitte
Bardot's book A Scream in the Silence in
which she laments the "underground and dangerous
infiltration of Islam".
 reedom
House (2001): "Of the world's 192 countries,
121 are electoral democracies. However, only 11 of
the 47 nations (23 percent) with an Islamic majority
have democratically elected governments. In the non-Islamic
world, which comprises 145 states, 110 are electoral
democracies (75 percent). Therefore, a non-Islamic
state is over three times more likely to be democratic
than an Islamic state. None of the 16 Arab states
of the Middle East and North Africa is a democracy.
"In addition to a democracy divide, there is
a dramatic freedom deficit between majority Islamic
countries and the rest of the world. Of the states
with an Islamic majority, only one, Mali, is rated
Free. Eighteen are rated Partly Free, and 28 are considered
Not Free. By contrast, in the non-Islamic world, 85
countries are Free, 40 are Partly Free, and 20 are
Not Free.
"The gap in freedom has only widened over the
last twenty years. While every other region of the
world has registered significant gains for democracy
and freedom, the countries of the Islamic world have
experienced a significant increase in repression."
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Maldives ignores rights
covenants: We note with regret that, to
date, no political movement in the Maldives, be
it the government or any of the opposition factions,
has made an explicit undertaking to ratify the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As such,
it is our opinion that there is no bona fide democratic
reform movement either in the Maldives or amongst
Maldivians living elsewhere. We are willing to amend
this statement when we are satisfied that circumstances
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