Robert R. Reilly om fantasteri på venstrefløjen

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The dangers of wishful thinking in the Middle East

By Robert R. Reilly – January 12, 2012

Projecting Western ideas onto the Arab Spring seriously underestimates the danger of Islamism.

Last July Matthew Kaminski opined in the Wall Street Journal that the transition to democracy in the Middle East would be as easy as it was for the democracies that emerged after the fall of the Soviet empire. Alas, this was predictably not so and has now been proven, as vote after vote has shown, the strength of the Islamists, most particularly in Egypt, where they have won some 70 percent of the ballot. With his article on January 3, “Arab Democracy Is the Best Bet for a Muslim Reformation“, Kaminski continues in this vein of false optimism, based upon his propensity to project Western conceptions and norms onto the Islamic world, where they are largely irrelevant.

Wishful thinking can be dangerous when it distorts reality. Here is a short list of misconceptions in his latest piece.

Mere HER hos Catholic News Agency.