Showing posts with label Islamism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islamism. Show all posts

1.2.11

Why fear Arab revolutionary spirit?

By Slavoj Zizek.

''The inevitable conclusion to be drawn is that the rise of radical Islamism was always the other side of the disappearance of the secular left in Muslim countries.''  


And vice versa, I must say.  The fact that the Muslim brotherhood concerned itself with policing the private lives and conduct of egyptians while neglecting social justice made this movement and other islamist movements in Egypt irrelevant...
 
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