But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.
Back in the 1950s, America set out to intervene in Syria, liberate the people from a corrupt elite, and bring about a new democracy. They did this with the best of intentions, but it led to disaster. And out of that disaster, the Assad regime rose to power.
Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which would later become BP - and its principal owner, the British government, conspired to destroy democracy and install a western-controlled regime in Iran.
Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.
Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.
