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12/02/2011 Washington Post editor Jackson Diehl writes that, based on conversations with Islamist political leaders, the ascendency of Islamist political parties such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is not as worrisome as some in the West believe. The biggest indicator of this, Diehl writes, is the renouncement of violence by these groups.
“I can accept a parliament elected by the people in which the Muslim Brotherhood and the salafists have the majority, rather than have the [supreme military council] continue to run the country,” Egyptian secular dissident lawyer Ahmed Seif El-Islam Hamad said. “At least these people were elected by the masses — and the masses can change their minds.”
