After a long stay in Turkey this week, and seeing the changes that a liberal government can do to a country, I asked myself one thing, can a complete liberal system work in a country like Yemen?

To explain liberalization, you can say that it is a state of rule where people control themselves, and government cannot force them to follow any sort of ideas, whether religious, morally, and even socially. In specific, a person can do what he wants when he wants wherever he wants, not caring whether this thing is against religious or social values. Liberalism takes more power away from the country and giving it to the people.

Yemen, being a very conservative, social, cultural, and somewhat religious country can almost never accept liberalization as a complete package in my point of view, but can accept large parts of it.

To prove my case, I will mention an example. If a person feels the desire of having free sex at any given time with his friend, he/she has the right to do so in a liberal system, and the government does not have the right to punish him for what he did because this was his personal opinion. Also, liberalization will ignore the fact of punishment that is an important aspect in Islamic Law.

Some might describe liberalization more of following your personal desires than having an organized way of life.