SECULAR DEMOCRACY.

No democracy without secularism




07-22-2014 04:58 AM

• Democracy is the only road that goes all the convoy corrected Human few exceptions Aasthia stand against the tide of history and

• governed by secular knowledge in the interpretation of physical phenomena and definition





By / Atef Abdullah





Mr. Abdul Latif Hassan Ali a member enlightened forum Sudanazon Line Alosviri put in the space above address, which is not just a slogan, but serves as a hole of light in the wall of darkness milled about awareness and knowledge, and he is also the argument philosophical and deep political refute much of what Ahik and weave on secularism Is it possible to have democracy without secularism? What are the dialectical relationship between them, and why it is imperative to provide a secular democratic environment despite the fact that secular democracy does not mean availability.



Return to our heritage of political near, we find that Sudan may experiment with democracy and the news of secularism before drowning in the darkness of totalitarianism (theocracy) and the rule of priests and all experiments were unsuccessful bearing seed its own destruction, how the path to sustainable democracy and achieve national project, which enables us to contribute positively to the human civilization and we are in the threshold of the twenty-century atheist. The way how to treat the problems of identity and development, freedom, and the devolution of power and wealth and the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and solving the problem of governance and whether we can accomplish this away from secularism?



Democratic rude derived from the Greek, a meeting of the two words the first part of the word DEMOS means the general public and the second part of the word KRATIA means the rule becomes DEMOCRATIA any judgment the general public (rule by the people), and democracy in its modern concept that prevailed in the world after the collapse of the socialist camp is a political system integrated represent the people's authority, express his will through majority rule with respect for minority rights and equality in rights and duties and to respect human rights and guarantee public freedoms, such as freedom of expression, religion, assembly and demonstration and freedom of the press and respect for the Constitution, and the independence of the judiciary and the peaceful transfer of paillasse so that they become freedom factor common to all citizens of different party affiliation and ideological, ethnic and racial. Is it possible to ensure the system away from the secular?



I say secular, not secular, where drawer Many of confusion between the two concepts is sometimes out of ignorance, and often intentionally, and to clarify the difference between the secular science as subject to all of the events, objects and phenomena to mind, even manifestations of spiritual subject them to rational Pure also said Engels, "subject of religion and nature, society and the state system, and everything to appear before the Court of mind in order to justify its existence, or in order to disappear from existence. "And invoking the secular to the physical knowledge in the interpretation and definition of phenomena ranging from the observations and the end of the theories and laws that include various areas of knowledge, for example, in the nature of the natural sciences and in the community aware of history, sociology and philosophy in psychology and in telemedicine find psychology, medicine, pharmacy .. etc. ...



Europe was in the Middle Ages under all natural phenomena to interpret the Old and New Testaments and the opinion of the priests, and the scientific discoveries that contradict biblical stories or those not mentioned Kkroah earth and turn around the sun facing opposition fierce during the Inquisition, which had been searching in the minds of scientists and thinkers for what it calls "heresy" and charges of heresy executed many of the thinkers and creators, and in the Renaissance has been edited knowledge of the separation between the religious establishment church and state affairs, and went secularism too far in its interpretation of the universe and the theory of evolution and human evolution are inconsistent with what came from the stories of creation in the divine books and thus have been linked to atheism, which does not concern us here often mapped by the secular (open eye), relative to the world (open lam), a political concept requires a separation between the religious community and the political community, which the state does not exercise any religious authority and religious institutions do not exercise any political authority , but that does not mean that no religion in politics or no politics in religion, religion as values ​​and ethics and the halal haram can not be separated from the walks of life, including politics, but without allowing politicians to interfere in religious affairs nor the clergy of interfering in political affairs, as the slogan (God, religion and the homeland for all) does not prevent religion to be the main sources of legislation in a constitutional democratic state desired.



The alternative systems is secular or theocratic totalitarian systems or hybrid systems between them, can do in a democracy under any of them?



The democratic concept of the rule of the people, have the conditions also have requirements and the first requirements of equality of rights and duties among all factions of the people, regardless of belief, gender, color, culture, and in the light of the religious state "theocracy" where the divine governance or authority to claim the application of legislation heavenly we find that the equality the rights of citizenship and no it does not equal between men and women and non-Muslim citizen treats Kzma, even among the owners of one belief, we find that the power divide them by the community and the party doctrine. There is no pot guarantor of this principle of "equality of rights and duties among all factions of the People" is the secular system.



We also find that the most important elements of democracy is the authority elected by the people from all walks of life through the ballot box, which can not be provided under the totalitarian regimes that do not recognize the other political forces or theocracy where the people of the solution and the contract by selection.



The conditions of the democratic separation of powers, especially legislative and executive powers, while the overlap authorities in totalitarian regimes and become whole in one hand and even eliminating be subject to the authority of the executive, and press freedom restricted, and lacking transparency and accountability which opens the door to all kinds of corruption, there is no alternative secularism to ensure the separation of powers.



Democracy is the only road that goes corrected each convoy Human few exceptions stand Aasthia against the current date and we know that no exception cultural can not stand long against its course, and (secular democracy) have become option to nine-tenths of the countries of the world.