politics and religion are analyzable as technologies, via conceptual design
democracy is a way to channel power from many into hands of few
Islam – means of construing universe as way to bring salvation to its followers
to achieve goals: peace, justice, equality as viewed within its doctrine
there isn’t a clear symbol for democracy or Islam, as such are subject to wide interpretation
“because they’re technologies, they’re manipulable”
democracy and Islam are portrayed as incompatible, but technologies are more malleable than that
an Egyptian activist group was blocked from forming a party which presented a combination of democracy and Islam