4 May 2008
Islam is incompatible with democracy
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Intelligence Squared has come to Australia. We present the inaugural home grown version of a debate-series that is making headlines overseas. The first one to be contested on home soil is not for intellectual shrinking violets. Under the strict rules of Oxford-style debating, two teams of three slug out the proposition that Islam is incompatible with democracy. If sovereignty belongs to Allah how can you have popular sovereignty?
Guests
Daniel Pipes
director, Middle East Forum
Paul Sheehan
columnist and writer
Tanveer Ahmed
psychiatry registrar and writer
Amina Rasul
director, Philippine Council on Islam and Democracy
Dr Samina Yasmeen
director, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia
Waleed Aly
Lawyer, journalist and lecturer in the Global Terrorism Research Centre, Monash University
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