Why do Islamic nations all tend to be dictatorships...

Why do Islamic nations all tend to be dictatorships? There's nothing in the Koran that demands that an Islamic nation be a dictatorship I don't think, so what brought about their current situation?

the Quran does state that all Muslims have to be united under a Caliph, a theocratic and political leader wielding absolute authority under the legitimacy of being a direct descendant of the Profit Muhammad.

Of course this was rarely carried out to its full intention as pretenders to the name claimed the title of Caliph constantly with no direct lineage to the Prophet such as the Umayyads, Fatamids, Osman, etc etc. But the extent of power granted to the Caliph is absolute authority, which sets the course for dictatorship with no check to the authority of such a figure.

So Islamic leaders typically stick to the unlimited powers supposedly given to them even though they don't hold the title of Caliph, which is why the founding of modern Turkey was absolutely bizarre at the time with a secular government and an elected leader, it really did break the mold with an islamic nation adopting a republican form of government, whereas most others still exercise absolute rule by a dictator.

*Prophet

well I guess Muhammad did Profit but that's another story

Oman is technically a dictatorship, but they are doing pretty well as a country and they aren't super oppressive.
Lebanon isn't a dictatorship either even though its half muslim and half Christian.

>even though its half muslim and half Christian.
How does a nation like that even stay together?

this

also Indonesia, UAE, Turkey are okay.
Iran is a democracy technically speaking

Theres no infrastructure to support a democracy. Believe it or not modern liberal government can't just be summoned from thin air. Preconditions like independent and strong judiciary system, civil notions like citizenship to a national entity rather than parochial clan or ethnic interests, a commitment to a peaceful transition of power, a free and open press, a literate populace, a relatively equal society (too much money, influence or power concentrated in one sect will invariably come to dominate the political system).

Secular state, popular support for Hezbollah, and resistance to Israeli aggression against Lebanon and the fact that the state doesn't care if you are Christian or Muslim. There is no wahabist or salafist mentality in Lebanon. Yes one of the 9/11 hijackers was from Lebanon but that doesn't mean all Lebanese are Al-Qaeda sympathizers. The point is that Lebanon has enjoyed relative stability despite being rocked by terrorists and turmoil from Syria.

they had a 'confessional system' where seats and offices were granted based on the census and religious quotas
part of the compromise was something like the president is Christian and prime minister is Shi'a

problem is, they stuck with the 1932 census way after the fact (demographics changed but the now-smaller groups wanted to keep power), and this 'unfair' balance of power was one factor in the civil war

since then, they've barely been able to stay together, and recent governments have been utterly dysfunctional

the people there are filled with hubris and basically demand that there be a dictator. They figure he'd be like a King, when hes usually a shitty leader like Sadam.

>Iran is a democracy technically speaking
It's not much of one when a unelected council of theocrats can veto any choice the president makes.

Saddam did nothing wrong.

shouldn't have fucked with the petrodollar

The Caliph was restricted from wielding any kind of absolute authority, especially on theological matters, and his political authority had been constantly degraded until he became nothing more than a figurehead.

In his place came the Turko-Persianate dictatorships and Arabic tribal confederacies, neither of which got any authority from Islamic theology.

Modern Middle Eastern dictatorships and kingdoms by contrast exist because of the power of a major tribe assuming control of all the modern levers of a nation-state, which leads to that tribe consolidating power under their chosen representative.

Because America constantly destabilizes the region by ruthlessly plotting to destroy any government that isn't 100% pro-American (or pro-Israel).

>the jews and their amerimutts be keepin the muslims down
place has been a shithole for the last 150 years user

>I-it was a shi-shithole guyz

looks ghetto. the people lived there agreed and started a civil war despite their shitty church

>shitty church
Really starting to activate my almonds user.

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only question is are you a russian or american shill

Because most of the time dictatorship is a better form of government then mob rule.

>currently watching new episodes of Star
Is Toffee a baathist? Is he president Bashar al-assad? You drew Assad in such a way that he looks like him.

it gets worse when that mob tries to make a king

I don't know user, I mean Switzerland is a direct democracy and they're doing pretty damn well.

>be irrelevant for hundreds of years
>at least we're still around
reminds me of dodos

Yea, but switzerland has high IQ and is on the correct side of the hajnal line that is why democracy can work.

In the middle east you need dictatorship in order to unite the tribalistic and sectarian tendencies.

Then would we not say that a Constitutional Republic is the best system then? Look at the good ol' USA, with their hegemony over most of the world, exporting their culture to every capitalist nation. Surely, if we go by relevancy and power, they have proven to be the best.

the Socratic kingdom is the best form of government

It also doesn't exist in real life.

>Umayyads
This name will never not make me giggle

Pick your favorite reason for it, but the muslim world is still stuck in the middle ages, and the only way to keep a country filled with a bunch of tribal groups of savages who all hate each other from tearing itself apart is strong and oppressive military rule.

It's because most of these places aren't 'nations' like we in the west understand them to be, there's no coherent national entity to them. Syria is a perfect example, it's various ethnic, tribal and religious groups whose only relation is that they all hate each other and are within the borders of the place called Syria.

They need a brutal strongman to beat these disparate groups into submission and into something resembling a functional nation state, this is also why Iraq is in chaos now Saddam is gone, and Libya, and why Egypt almost immediately went back to military dictatorship

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