Fareed Zakaria's article in the Wash Post today is a tough sell. I agree that Islamic Democrats should be given a chance at power - hopefully some of their radical conservative social mores will be tempered by their populace when election season comes around. (Maybe, I am not 100% about this, maybe Islamic democrats will take power and be authoritarians, but they couldn't be much worse then what we have now - Mubarak - and if they are not given the chance - if they are not allowed to participate in society and in government through nonviolent political channels - their measures will be worse.)
But the Taliban is not an Islamic democratic group. (Though the past administration would have liked you to believe that ALL Muslim groups are on in the same...) The deal between the govt and the Taliban in the Swat region makes me nervous especially when there are reports of 1000s of girls' schools closed and bombed. Can these extremists be swayed and tempered? Is their terror means to an end - good governance - or aimed at establishing a totally new system? (See post below on Olivier Roy's differentiation between the two in his book Politics of Chaos of the Middle East.) If the former, possibly these extremists can be reasoned with, but if they are the latter negotiations are not possible.
Monday, March 2, 2009
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