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Re: Liberty and culture

Posted by RonInBayside on Wed Aug 30 21:55:15 2006, in response to Re: Does Iran Already Have a Nuke?, posted by American Pig on Wed Aug 30 21:31:58 2006.

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Liberty is defined in different ways.

For example, in Jordan, King abdullah does not make decisions without consulting first with the sheikhs, or heads of tribes and ptominent families. They have an effective voice in the governing of Jordan. However, this is a stratified society. As such, the lower-ranking members of each tribe or family do not have a say, but rather must depend on their "elders" to represent them at decision-making.

On the other hand, it is customary in Arab society for any citizen to have some access to petition the ruler - to have an audience with the king (whether anything useful results from this is a separate question).

This is not a democracy as we in the West would view it, but it is not a completely totalitarian system either, in the sense that the central ruler, the monarch, cannot simply do and decide as he pleases.

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