The lack of Arab democracy is all a plot by the western powers:

Arabic-speaking peoples
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf suffer one common chronic
ailment, namely oppressive despotism. Most of the states that stretch
between the two water basins came into being less than a century ago;
many were former colonies of one or other of the European powers.
France and Britain in particular were instrumental after the first
world war in shaping the entire map of what is today the Middle East
and North Africa.

Well, yes, I suppose so. So much worse than the Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire which succeeded it eh?