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"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world."
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"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
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