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Originally Posted by x-factor
Nasser's message of pan-Arab nationalism was able to trascend tribalism and draw a broad following (so is the Islamist message for that matter), so the tribes may not be an impassable stumbling block in the same way that the perceived evils of democracy (embodied by Iraq) are. Second, by empowering secular Arabs you provide a visible alternative to the youth who might eventually become Islamists. Alternatively, it is not unreasonable to imagine an Islam-based government that is moderate (in the sense that it is not jihadist) in the same way that a seperation of church and state developed gradually in European history.
Whatever the case in the long-term, in the short term there's no hope of moderation by anyone as long as the US occupation is suffocating all arguments for anything but jihadism.
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Greetings. I am not even going to try and be informed enough to have a worthwhile contribution to this thread, but if I may ask a question?
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I was just cuious if you had a copy of
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey
by Leila Ahmed
Strangely, I thought I had read your above post somewhere? Maybe it is just a strong similarity.
Holly