What has been the success rate of Islamic movements in relation to their advancing democracy, transparency, accountability, responsiveness to the poor in their society and constitutional reform?This telling article from Turkey indicates that political parties have come to grasp power for the sake of power, not for the benefit of the general population.
Hasan Mekki from Sudan, İhsan Yılmaz from İstanbul's Fatih University, Sociology professor Semir Budinar from Morocco, Dr. Cemal Seferti from Syria and many others evaluate the acheivements of Islamists in power in this telling article.
"Cairo University academic Mohammed al-Sharqawi said the relations between people and the state should be reevaluated in the Muslim world. He said that when Islamists stay in power for a long time, they began to degrade in terms of democratic and Islamic values."
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