The Mirage of Political Islam

As the Obama team prepared to end the wars of the Bush administration, it felt a need for friends in the Arab world. So the administration bought into the fallacy of “moderate” political Islam.

Had they not fallen for the Islamists’ lip service to democracy, they might have paid more attention to the new political force that sparked the Arab Spring: democratic secularism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/the-mirage-of-political-islam.html