| Islam and Politics | |
| 13 Jan 2012, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Why Islamism Is Winning | |
By John M. Owen IV January 6, 2012 |
http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndPolitics_1.aspx?ArticleID=6369 | ||
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Islamism did not cause the Arab Spring. The region’s authoritarian governments had simply failed to deliver on their promises. Though Arab authoritarianism had a good run from the 1950s until the 1980s, economies eventually stagnated, debts mounted and growing, well-educated populations saw the prosperous egalitarian societies they had been promised receding over the horizon, aggrieving virtually everyone, secularists and Islamists alike. Most, whether moderate or radical, or living in a monarchy or a republic, share a common inherited language of dissent: Islamism. -- John M. Owen IV
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