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Article: Legalizing the Muslim Brotherhood.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 23, 2005
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Byline: The Monitor's View
As Egypt's autocratic regime cracks open the door to real democracy, should it let in the Muslim Brotherhood - a popular social and political group that wants rule by Islamic law? The group demands it be made a legal political party. But to do so illustrates the risk in nudging Arab states toward democracy.
It's obvious by now that the democracy domino theory as applied to the Middle East is full of complexities. Encouraging fair and open elections, for instance, also opens the way for troubling Islamist organizations to push for participation - in parliamentary elections in Egypt this month, in Iraq next month, and in the ...