by Shajahan Madampat
Columnist Shajahan
Madampat writes about Islamism and democracy being inherently incompatible with
each other. He writes:
DOES the emergence of
Islamism, or political Islam, as a potentially transformative force in the Arab
world augur well for democratic prospects in the region? Will Islamism
graduate, under the compulsions of realpolitik, to become the Arab Muslim
equivalent of Europe's Christian Democrats or use the electoral route to
eventually try and establish a scripturally vindicated form of theocratic or
theo-democratic tyranny?
The question assumes special significance now,
as political developments over the past one year have confirmed that the fall
of dictatorships in Arab countries is most likely to be followed by the rise of
Islamists to power. Are the core beliefs and ideological fundamentals that the
Islamists stand for compatible with even the elementary concepts of democracy?
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