سرگرم ڈیموکریٹ : اسلامیت اور مصر میں جمہوریت, انڈونیشیا اور ترکی

انتخابات کے ذریعے اقتدار میں آنے کے اسلام پسندوں کا خوف طویل مسلم دنیا کے امرانہ ریاستوں میں جمہوریت کے لئے ہے رکاوٹ کیا گیا. اسلامی دیا گیا ہے, اور کو جاری رکھا جائے, سب سے بہترین کا اعلان کیا اور سب سے زیادہ قابل اعتماد ان ممالک میں سے کئی میں حزب اختلاف کی نقل و حرکت.

They are also commonly, if not always correctly, assumed to be in the best position to capitalise on any democratic opening of their political systems. عین اسی وقت پر, the commitment of Islamists to democracy is often questioned. بے شک, when it comes to democracy, Islamism’s intellectual heritage and historical record (in terms of the few examples of Islamist-led states, such as Sudan and Iran) have not been reassuring. The apparent strength of Islamist movements, combined with suspicions about Islamism’s democratic compatibility, has been used by authoritarian governments as an argument to defl ect both domestic and international calls for political reform and democratisation.

Domestically, secular liberals have preferred to settle for nominally secular dictatorships over potentially religious ones. Internationally, Western governments have preferred friendly autocrats to democratically elected, but potentially hostile, Islamist-led governments.

The goal of this paper is to re-examine some of the assumptions about the risks of democratisation in authoritarian countries of the Muslim world (and not just in the Middle East) where strong Islamist movements or parties exist.