The second factor we forget when we perceive liberal democracy as the natural form of government is its questionable compatibility with the second most widespread belief system. Unlike Christianity, Islam prescribes a political structure and set of laws that are hard to wed to democracy. In 2017, only six of the fifty-seven member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation were deemed democracies by the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index 2017—all of them substantially “flawed.”
the protesting factions were led by conservative Islamists seeking to overthrow secular regimes and implement Sharia law rather than establish liberal democracies.
