What's a poor Islamist to do? All they ever wanted was to take over Arab states and impose their reactionary ideology on everybody else. For decades, they assumed that the only thing really holding them back were non-Islamist dictators. But as dictatorships have fallen and political space has opened up, they've discovered something exceptionally disturbing: their followers don't appear to be majorities in Arab states, and they have run up against unexpectedly powerful and widespread opposition.
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