Originally Posted by Fatima47

I can sit here and say that Islamic form of government (or Khilafah) is more democratic than democracy, but is irrelevant discussion on several counts.

Since when did the democracy become the standard bearer for everything, including Islam? What stops us from saying "we want proper implementation of Islam"? Why is it such a problematic topic for people to digest?A lot of people are fixated on making Islam and democracy sound good together because someone gave us this idea that democracy is the ideal system. Who said it was? Better yet, how did this whole issue of democracy become so popular after the 1950s and not an issue for the past 1300 years of Islamic history among the classical scholars, e.g Ibn Kathir, Nawawi, Imam Shafi etc? Because at that time our worry was not what others thought about us (whether we are democratic or not_ but what Allah (S.W.T) thoughtf of us Muslims.