Monday, February 7, 2011

Democracy in Arab World

How Democracy Becaome Halal

From the NYT, a counter view to the one I mentioned in my previous posting.  This man, Reul Marc Gerecht, is a Middle East specialist with a new book coming out: The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East.  He argues that freedom as the ability to vote is becoming a widespread notion in the Middle East, alongside "freedom to worship God" and "national freedom from European imperialism." 

Worth a read.

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