Prof. Daniel Pipes
(Director, Middle East Forum, USA)
Copyright: http://www.danielpipes.org/12298/dictators-elected-islamists
Who is worse, President Mohamed Morsi, the elected Islamist seeking to apply Islamic law in Egypt, or President Husni Mubarak, the former dictator ousted for trying to start a dynasty? More broadly will a liberal, democratic order more likely emerge under Islamist ideologues who prevail through the ballot box or from greedy dictators with no particular agenda beyond their own survival and power? Read more