English: Map showing the territorial four main
races/ethnicities/colors of South Africa in 1979: Whites,
Coloureds, Blacks and Indians. The gray areas indicate the
Apartheid-era Bantustans, which are almost exclusively black.
This map is a photoshopped version of the CIA-made original map
at Perry Castañeda map collection at the University of Texas
website. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Written by Raeesah Cassim
Cachalia (1) Part I of this discussion explored the paranoia
around the growth of political Islam after the Arab Spring. The
discussion explained many of the issues involving Islam and
Islamophobia and where these issues stem from. Continuing from
this, part II briefly examines democracy as well as the Islamic
state and explains why democracy, as we know it today, should
not be the only option considered for regime change in Arab
Spring nations. The flaws and fallacies of democracy Democracy
needs to be evaluated as more than a theoretical ideal but in
light of its implementation and track record as well.