“There is a fourth possibility. The mass uprisings lead to a democratic government and an open media,…”
Democracy reflects the will of the majority. As the elections in Gaza have shown, the majority want Islamic rule. A majority wanted the Weimar Republic replaced with a strongman, so that’s what democracy got Germany back then. The majority in the Muslim world are Islamic believers, so democracy cannot end in anything other than shariah rule.
“…and the Islamists, (including the schmucks who blame Israel and the USA for all the troubles in the world), are shown for the professional “grievance lobby” that they are.”
That’s the trouble with the term “Islamist.” Its connection with reality is not entirely fictional, because it does denote the politically active agents of establishing shariah rule, as opposed to those who merely offer aid and comfort; however, this term is often used to prop up the total fiction of a “moderate” Islam of flowers and unicorns that can be trusted to stand against a “radical” Islam of jihad and militancy, which is *of course* held only by a tiny minority.
A little reality: The Muslim world, not having undergone anything like the European Enlightenment, is Islamic, Koranic, Jihadist and shariah-supporting in the mainstream, in the majority, by the man in the street. It’s grassroots, no matter how unsettling the thought of nearly 1.6 billion supporters of shariah law is to you.
There’s nothing revolutionary about these protests, not in Iran, not in Tunisia, not in Egypt, not anywhere in the Muslim world. The people may be protesting unemployment, corruption, tyranny or something along those lines, but they are not protesting Islam, jihad and shariah law. Revolution would be when a man in Tehran or Cairo can tell his friends he doesn’t believe in the religion anymore and isn’t found the next day riddle with bullet holes. Until then, it’s SSDD all over again.
