03 December 2011

Islamists Electoral Rise Due to Failed Secularism

.... Admittedly, much intellectual confusion -- and mischief -- is caused by an elastic concept like Islamism, which can be stretched to accommodate the mass-murderer Ayman Al-Zawahiri as well as the Tunisian leader and modernist thinker Rashid Ghannouchi.

As it turns out, fast-moving events in the Arab world illustrate what I was trying to say better than any intellectual abstraction. [Business Week] Read more