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February 27, 2013

The Muslim Forest and the Islamist Trees

Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon

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The era of Islamist victories is not necessarily over. But many underestimate the ability of essentially non-Islamist societies to resist them, even in a relatively disorganized manner. More importantly for the long run, as both Berman and Dabashi note in their own ways, the forest is starting to look a lot different than any individual tuft of trees.

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TAGGED: Middle East, Muslims, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt

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