FTAC.

I normally indent these but wanted to make it easy to preview/view the YouTube clips.

 

It’s a 30-minute clip (there’s your warning) that echoes what I’ve viewed from the Belfer Center (e.g.,

).

The great democratic concept is that it should be able to integrate and reconcile or enable faith in peace as long as people argue and compromise about issues in which they’re invested.  With Islam, perhaps more specifically whatever portion has invested in political absolutism, the power of the democratic process stumbles: it meets an opposition disinterested in “trying it out”.

So the drones fly.

Shadi Hamid seems to me to find the next best position, i.e., a democratic Islamism — or one accepting democracy — but loaded with an illiberal drive.

Well, okay.

You decide.

(I’m switching over to reading Hemingway, watching the thunderstorms develop, that sort of thing).

Oh: http://www.brookings.edu/experts/hamids