Thursday, February 17, 2011

This is not an Islamic Revolution..


As the questions on Islamists role on the ingoing events across the Arabic/Muslim world; such academic analysis is fetal to set a ground for reliable understanding..


Olivier Roy

Published 15 February 2011
New Statesman

"These developments have also affected Islamist political movements, as is exemplified by the changing face of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and al-Nahda, the "renaissance party", in Tunisia. The Muslim Brotherhood has changed in response to troubling events, as much in what seemed like success (the Islamic Revolution in Iran) as in defeat (the repression that has been meted out to it everywhere). A new generation of militants has drawn lessons from this, as have such veterans as Rachid Ghannouchi, founder of al-Nahda. They have understood that seeking to take power in the wake of a revolution leads either to civil war or to dictatorship. And in their struggle against repression, they have come into contact with other political forces and formations. Knowing their own societies well, they are aware that ideology carries little weight within them. They have also learned lessons from Turkey, where Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AK party have succeeded in reconciling democracy, electoral success, economic development and national independence with the promotion of values that are, if not Islamic, at least "authentic".."

The full article:
http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/02/egypt-arab-tunisia-islamic

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