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Senior Fellow ; Contributing editor ; Author . New book is 'Rethinking Political Islam':

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    1 Oct 2017

    Me & launched our new book 'Rethinking Political Islam' at . Watch full discussion here:

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    9 hours ago

    For those asking what or who "Islamists" are, here's a primer that & I wrote:

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  3. 9 hours ago

    Post-1848, Socialist parties were generally more "anti-democratic" than Islamist parties today are (in some cases explicitly so), but most European countries allowed them to participate in the democratic process regardless

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    In post 1848 Europe, democracy was only able to succeed where it included socialist parties, which at the time seemed as shocking to the old order as Islamist parties today. It was not easy, and bolshevism and fascism nearly ended democracy, but it survive…
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    11 hours ago

    . outlines the three potential outcomes of tomorrow's snap election in Turkey. Via .

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    I wrote something related for my PhD many years ago; seems congruent with your thesis here.

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    Jun 21

    Kudos to for trying to kickoff this necessary discussion.

    Those of us who are pro-immigration need to be able to respond to the points raises in this thread 👇. I had the same natural, emotional, outraged response to Trump's border separations as most folks. But it worries me that I don't really…
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  7. 15 hours ago

    My guess is that democracies, all other things being equal, would be better at fielding successful soccer teams, but it's very hard to control for variables. That said might have addressed this in his book

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    any relationship between democracy and Tunisian football, in particular with regard to Tunisia’s performance in World Cup today?
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  8. 16 hours ago

    Granted, we don't have many cases (b/c Islamists are often been blocked from government), but AKP in is a troubling outlier example. But even in this outlier case, democracy has been undermined but not yet ended (as the competitiveness of the current elections show)

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    No mainstream Islamist group that I'm aware of advocates abolishing democracy after coming to power through elections. That doesn't mean that some (AKP) might undermine democracy after winning, just that it's not something any of them express as an ideological commitment

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    How to deal with with political groups (not just Islamist) that are running in elections, but their ideology or manifest states that they would abolish democracy for example? Fight only with arguments and hope for the best or anything else?
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    17 hours ago

    Somehow I missed this outstanding grumbly piece by .

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  11. 16 hours ago

    Tunisia is a good reminder that democracy can work in the Middle East—but only if Islamist parties are accommodated in the process. And I do mean *only if.* In every Arab country I can think of, democracy is inconceivable *without* Islamist parties participating

    Since the 2011 revolution, has enjoyed the most progressive, democratic legal framework for civil society in the Arab world. Now the government might replace the law regulating NGO activities…
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    Jun 22

    🤔

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  13. Jun 22

    Okay, this is a first: "offshore canvassing" in Turkey's upcoming elections, in this case by an Islamist party (Saadet Partisi, which is part of the opposition against Erdogan)

    saadet partisi ordu mv adayı seçim çalışmasından.
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  14. Jun 22

    Same

    This is because of me.
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  15. Jun 22

    “It’s no longer possible to deny it: Twitter is making an unexpected, somewhat miraculous comeback”

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    Jun 22

    This is Mideast dictatorship-level incompetent policing - sporadic bureaucratic overreaction to specific incidents while still failing to control what you are tasked with controlling.

    A woman inadvertently crossed the Canadian border into the U.S. while jogging. U.S. officials detained her for two weeks. …
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    Jun 21

    Re: the response to the thread below, I'm sympathetic to unorthodox responses that lean toward "open borders," but only in a vacuum. The main reason I can't support anything close to open borders is because it would undermine our democratic bargain

    Those of us who are pro-immigration need to be able to respond to the points raises in this thread 👇. I had the same natural, emotional, outraged response to Trump's border separations as most folks. But it worries me that I don't really…
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  18. Jun 22

    Using reform to make future reforms less likely, which is what many Arab regimes do quite effectively 👇

    From the incomparable : “Worst of all will be if these small-scale reforms [in Saudi Arabia], and the silencing of feminists, slow the momentum for pushing the Saudi regime into making more meaningful change.”
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    Jun 1

    Quote of the day: “Denmark’s ban on the burqa and niqab will have the effect of further polarizing society and further alienating the Muslim minority population. There is only one minority group that is affected by this — Muslims." May 31, 2018 | Shadi Hamid, NPR

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    Jun 21

    Last week, I spoke on viewpoint diversity and where to draw "red lines" at 's inaugural conference—with & Watch the conversation here:

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