The Arab Spring Becomes the Islamist Autumn

A primer to the apparent triumph of Islamic political movements across the Arab world:

In Tunisia, the long-suffering Ennahda Party looks to be the biggest winner of that country’s first free elections. And in Libya, the interim leader of the National Transitional Council has called for a Libya founded on Islamic tenets, respectful of the country’s Muslim identity, with a place for Islamic institutions, such as Shari’ah-compliant finance.

Considering our role in Libya’s revolution, that last speech raised eyebrows and elicited concern—never mind that Tunisia, long a bastion of Arab state secularism, seems to be witnessing the return of political Islam. It seems as if Islamic politics is the main victor come this Arab Spring. What are we to make of all this? Will a geographically contiguous stretch of one hundred million Arabs and Berbers choose authoritarian Islamists, enact Islamic law, and snuff out whatever democratic potential might have existed only months ago?

Read the whole essay at Religion Dispatches.

 

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