The spread of the contagion of protest across North Africa, from Tunisia to Egypt and beyond, has not just been exhilarating. It has also given the lie to one of the great myths about the Muslim world – the belief that people in Muslim countries have a different mindset to those in the West, that democracy and secularism are ‘Western’ concepts alien to the political culture of Egypt or Jordan or Yemen. What the demonstrators in Cairo and Tunis have […]

Categories: Atheism & Religion, International • Tags: democracy, egypt, gilles kepel, iranian revolution, islamism, muslim brotherhood, nasser, secularism