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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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LB 47 
EG 44 
PS 40 
IQ 28 
MA 20 
SY 20 
YE 19 
TN 17 
JO 15 
SA 15 
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DZ 12 
LY 11 
AE 9 
BH 9 
QA 7 
MR 6 
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English EG 2017-03-29 Tier 2 Alaa Abd El-Fattah (Egyptian writer, technologist and pro-democracy activist; long-imprisoned) — open letter to the RightsCon conference smuggled from Tora prison, 2017: "Fix your own democracy... the only possible answer," and a warning that human-rights advocacy must not become "a weapon in a cold war... [as] the Arab revolutions were lost when revolutionaries found themselves... recruits in proxy wars between regional powers."
Fix your own democracy: This has always been my answer to the question “how can we help?” I still believe it is the only possible answer. Not only is where you live, work, vote, pay tax, and organize the place where you have more influence, but a setback for human rights in a place where democracy has deep roots is…
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Arabic EG Tier 1 Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — essay "Islam and Democracy" (his official website, al-qaradawi.net): democracy's essence "is from the very core of Islam," and a Muslim embraces democracy "as a form of governance that embodies the political principles of Islam" (shura, accountable rulers, commanding right/forbidding wrong) — the foundational political-Islam reconciliation of Islam and democracy.
الذي يتأمل جوهر الديمقراطية يجد أنه من صميم الإسلام والمسلم الذي يدعو إلى الديمقراطية إنما يدعو إليها باعتبارها شكلاً للحكم، يجسد مبادئ الإسلام السياسية في اختيار الحاكم، وإقرار الشورى والنصيحة، والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر، ومقاومة الجور، ورفض المعصية