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Islamists have shown themselves to be more than willing to play by the rules of democracy when they have not been subjected to state repression. Tunisia, the one great success story of the Arab uprisings, recently held democratic elections in which the ruling Muslim Brotherhood-linked Ennahda Party was defeated by its secular rivals in Nidaa Tounes. Power was transferred peacefully and amicably, helping to entrench democratic practices in a country which had before known only authoritarian rule. The contrast with Egypt, where a Gulf-backed military coup violently removed a democratic government, couldn’t be starker. Unfortunately, in the latter case the U.S. ended up siding with the military regime even as it proceeded to launch a brutal crackdown on the former Tahrir Square revolutionaries. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/04/middle-easts-counterrevolutionary-alliance/
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:06:04 +0000

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