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~ Abid Ullah Jan (Author) "Muslims a sense of participation..." (more)
Key Phrases: permanent norms, godless system, governing mechanism, Prophet Muhammad, United States, Israr Ahmad (more...)
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"...persuasive and conclusive.." -- Media Monitors Net

"...persuasive and conclusive.." -- — Media Monitors Network, USA

"A thought-provoking work that points towards solution for the problems caused by the failure of secular democracy..." -- Ayub Azhar Hamid, National Director, Canadian Islamic Congress

"A thought-provoking work that points towards solution for the problems caused by the failure of secular democracy..." -- — Ayub Azhar Hamid, National Director, CIC

truly points out that just like the corporate media the corporate democracy is bitterly suppressing the will of the people. -- Baluchistan Post

truly points out that just like the corporate media the corporate democracy is bitterly suppressing the will of the people. --Baluchistan Post

truly points out that the opinion of the masses is ignored..we can see a revolution around the corner. -- Baluchistan Post

“...persuasive and conclusive..” --— Media Monitors Network, USA

“A thought-provoking work that points towards solution for the problems caused by the failure of secular democracy...” --— Ayub Azhar Hamid, National Director, CIC


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The End of Democracy answers these and other questions along with addressing many misconceptions systematically promoted by the Western media and their collaborators among Muslims. It specifically covers the disinformation spread and confusion promoted by well-known "scholars" of Islam in their discussion under the title "Islam and the Challenge of Democracy" as if democracy is out to challenge the core principles of Islam. For most of the duration during its conceptual phases the title of this book remained "Democracy and the Challenge of Islam," for it tried to counter the baseless arguments presented in the aforementioned series of the Boston Review which is now available in book form as well. However, as the research progressed and went beyond response to the shallow arguments of the "scholars" of Islam, it became evident that democracy, as we witness today, is here but for far not too long. The title was changed to The End of Democracy because the more people, such as Bush and Blair, go out to take lives of thousands of innocent people around the world for imposing their brand of twisted democracy through puppets like Mubarak and Musharraf, the more the institutions established for real democracy and the individuals working for it would feel more embarrassed over democracy's fate tomorrow than even the Nazis after the fall of Hitler. In the face of what is happening around the world at the hands of the "champions of democracy," democracy is already dead and its concept has lost its utility for the simple reason that its guardians would never want to make a course correction for making it a real, representative and consultative form of governance. Instead they would love to see the people reject their ideas, ideals and policies and keep on perfecting their respective police states regardless of the popular opposition. See transcripts of recent press conference of Bush and Blair at a time when 200,000 people were protesting outside in the street. The problem is that many of us do not see any alternative to democracy and that lack of vision makes many stick to the search for the illusive true democracy. There is hardly anyone in the world who would argue that democracy is perfect. No sooner they find and understand the alternative, the perfect alternative, their association with the convoluted democracy we are subjected to by a few elite might become a stigma for them. The End of Democracy presents that alternative to the stagnation of democracy that is getting foul and turning into unprecedented kind of tyranny with each passing day.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Publishing (November 1, 2003)
  • ISBN-10: 0973368705
  • ISBN-13: 978-0973368703
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,810,343 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Intellectually bankrupt anti western propaganda , July 24, 2004
Abid Ullah Jan 's ridiculous insinuation in this intellectually bankrupt dissertation is that western democracy is a failure and it should be replaced by islamic rule,perhaps such as found in the Islamic Republic of Iran or the Taliban.

It is hard to get through this book without pondering whether the author has even an inkling of knowledge on how democracy works.After toiling through the first half of the book it becomes rather obvious that the book is promoting a political agenda akin to the typical islamic fundamentalist assault on western values and societies.

'The End of Democracy' is filled with bias, twisted facts and erroneous conclusions that sadly are the usual fare of contemporary islamic thinking these days. The narrowness of Abid Ullah Jan's interpretation of world events and history is not convincing at all and the the assertions he makes are pure nonsense. His assertion that Islamic rule is superior to Democracy in the areas of justice , civil rights and civil liberties may sound good on paper, but anyone who lives in the real world can clearly see that this is patently false.

Evidently the great arab thinkers of the distant past seem to have all been replaced by narrow minded islamic propagandist such as Abid Ullah Jan whose lives seems dedicated to discrediting western societies and promoting islamic radicalism.
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5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional work to depict a different perspective, March 8, 2004
By "abuhumzah" (Fremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews
I would like to congragulate the Author for his exceptionally courageous work on giving the entire world a different perspective. He has clearly depicted that how the western imperialism is trying to enlsave the Muslim majority population countries under the disguise of Democracy. This is a must read book for all the people who have any doubts that Islam is a Complete System of Life.
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6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Shaloow criticism proves the book is worth something, July 31, 2004
After reading a shallow criticism of The End of Democracy, I went on reading this book. It seems very easy to curse the so thouroughly reasearched work so easy rather than poinitng out examples of of what a critic calls "twisted facts" and erronous conclusions." If there are any, one has to point it out rather than making sweeping statements.

I personally beleive the work that contains close to 500 references relies on proving things rather than saying as is the case in most of the recent publications. Instead of making sweeping statements with no evidence, the author has proved every point that he made in his analysis of the contemporary democracy as well as the only model than has the potential to replace it.

The beauty of this work is that the more the time passes, the more the swing of democracy as we it it towards tyranny will make the work more acceptable even in the eyes of those who think it is the end of history and after democracy nothing is there to come.

Mr. Jan has proved that the alternative is there and when something is just there, it is bound to be implemented when everything fails. That is going to happen in the near future
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