Many academics have discussed the relations between political Islam and liberal democracy. Their main question was/is ‘is it possible to find a kind of compatibility between Western regimes’ characteristics and Islam?’ According to this paper, this question’s answer is affirmative in term of Albanian society concerned. This paper is a case study and tries to achieve three purposes that functioned also as guidelines throughout the entire study including the quest about the compatibility between Islam (most of all in its political aspects) and democracy through the study of the Albanian case; and analysing those historical and political happenings that affected the current situation of the country and in addition to investigate the perceptions that the Albanian youth has about the issue in order to describe the present and also to make some suggestions/previsions about the future. In other words this study describes how Islam is perceived by Albanian society within the political life enriching in this way the portrait of the development of the relations between Islam and politics in the country during the last ten years. The paper provides various tables and data in order to prove its stands and explains how Albanian thought on ascribed issues. The paper concludes that the secret of Albania is that this nation enjoys its role of miscellaneous of two cultures since they know the importance and the value of both; therefore, thus Islam and Liberal democracy naturally coexist and the Albanian Islam differs from many other
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