The price of Democracy and Democratization
These days we repeatedly are represented different signs of American democracy not only in Iraq but inside the US .According to (Amren.com) today US is engaged to Iraqi refugees who flee from violence in Iraq, those who were promised to be given a good and calm life after toppling Saddam. They lack, not only, security but their homes have been lost. This is while Bush and his team promised to build infrastructures and much more facilities than Baath regime's era. Iraqi refugees today wandering between Arab countries and many of them in Syria and even some tend to go US if government allows them and this issue cause concerns among some Americans remembering Vietnam refugees during 1970s.
Another document for American liberty and democracy is their right to bear arm on which many years pro as well as anti-gun control have debated in vain, as when an accident occurs such the one happened in Virginia Tech on Monday last week some actions are held to keep public calm and under control, like any other places in world, and then as all forget officials also leave this important issue alone as nothing has happened. As it happened yesterday when two students, Eric Harris and Yan Klebold in the nearly same age with Cho Seung-Hui, the South Korean- 23 years old- boy who shot 33 students and teachers, shot and killed some students and teachers in Columbine High school in 1999. It seems that no body can afford Anti-gun controls and they are more powerful to be defeated. A very hot issue after some month turns to a null memory and experience as manufacturers and politicians can not leave their interests by claiming and reasoning some sophisticated ideas by NRA's president, Charlton Heston.
Now Americans lost their lives for benefit of a minority group of politicians and manufacturers who seek for supporter and interests. The right to bear arm is a clause in second amendment of the Constitution but not many Americans support that as right and see it a way to increase violence.The best way that appears rational to avoid this violence is public and all over opposition to this amendment because it belongs to period that federal government could not guarantee public security against Indians and other rebellions and American society as a democratic and liberal one might no longer need to keep itself from natural dangers.

The North Carolina Senate apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow Law

Through a symbolic action, North Carolina Senate apologized for the legislature's role in promoting slavery and Jim Crow laws that denied basic human rights to the states black citizens. Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand, a Democrat and the bill’s primary sponsor said: “This is a way to reflect upon this and express our understanding and our regret for official actions of our state”.
Jim Crow laws, I need to say that, was some rules against blacks through which they were deprived of many of their civil rights, so for this reason they started their resistance. This is an action that can have different meanings. It may be a true apology to those whose ancestors suffered under slavery era in North Carolina, as it seems, because there is no force on them for such an action, but what it is not to be ignored is that maybe a political reason lies behind this action, according to Democrats' triumph in November 2006 election of Congress. Although this is a state senate who apologies for past, but it may be done by them to represent their sympathy and take African-American's attention for 2008 presidential election. Actually I don not know about the political tendency of senators in North Carolina but it seems that they may be Democrats.
In 1990s the Democratic government of Bill Clinton tried to remove the signs of racial tendencies by promoting multiculturalism through a vast program in schools and even universities. They began shifting the contents of schools and universities books by replacing some cultural studies of minorities and ethnic groups and even studies of others regions in world like Middle East. One of important goals of this program was decreasing racial crises and making America, really, a liberal society, but most important one was deemed as attracting the minorities and ethnic groups' vote for presidential election, as S. Huntington claims in Who Are We?
It was reported by Associated Press retold by American Renaissance (a White Nationalists' site), to which many users of site put their comments on this issue, but many of them, as directors of site like, looked on issue as racial not politically. From now on we can wait and see how Democrats play such an action to win the 2008 election. In politics Democrats are busy, as recently Nancy Pelosi, the majority leader of the Congress tripped to Syria to negotiate with Syrian leaders to find way to reduce tensions between America and Syria. Today I read on morning news that Pelosi and Democrats seek to find a way to open negotiation's doors with Iran. All of these actions are conducted to represent a peace-loving face.

Muslim Woman Sues Detroit Judge for Asking Her To Remove Her Veil

A 42 years old Muslim woman who is living in Hamtramck near Detroit was asked by Judge, Paul Paruk, to remove her veil in court to prove her suit on burglary of her rental car.
As above picture shows Ginnah Muhammad, she is not recognizable indeed. I do not like to defend the judge but I like to say that why so veiled in such situation that Muslims are under cultural attacks for their rites. In a country and society that, continuously, Nudism is represented as a part of culture, I think it is not necessary for a Muslim woman to cover herself as heavily as she does in Arab countries. In my opinion the cultural gap between western societies and Muslim world is so deep by itself that these issues make it worse.
Western countries call Muslims "terrorists" and Muslims, in turn, call them shameless for the issue of sexualism in every aspect of life and activities as written magazines, internet, economic, politics and etc. What does this mean? Does not it mean that a big gap is between them? So how a Muslim can live in a western society? Can he live in such a manner that he used to in his country? Certainly not, not completely. If we believe that they should keep our Islamic rule in our country, so we also should keep some of their rule to the extent that our religious identity allows us.
I do not see any necessary a Muslim woman cover her face as she does in Arab, as I believe there is difference between Hijab in a western society and Hijab in an Islamic society. I believe a Muslim woman in a western society is not looked at as she is in Islamic. In west a Muslim woman with an ordinary Hijab looks different in terms of her appearance than others, where she is looked at as a religious and fundamentalist or like Christian nun, not as an mere sexual target as males have any target to look at, but in Muslim societies as all women are in the same form, if we ignore some so-called Islamic societies, women need to veil themselves as here difference between appearences seem very low, so a bit difference may cause a motive to look more.
Finally, some radical acts and behaviors seem to be not only a message to Islam but may, for some, disgust of it and motivate some purposeful aggressors to Islam to find a motif to damage its face.