Friday, January 13, 2012

Islam and Politics
13 Jan 2012, NewAgeIslam.Com
Why Islamism Is Winning

By John M. Owen IV

January 6, 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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