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From walidphares.com
Quoted "Arab kings and sheiks are speaking out in support of secular civil society and against Islamists because "they know that eventually the Brotherhood will go after them" too, says Walid Phares, author of the book The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East. "It would be a better deal to recognize civil society little by little than to fall all at once to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists." The conflict between secularists and Islamists is also generating a new religious dialog about the role of religion in politics, something many in the West have said is needed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Phares said. Grand sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb of Cairo's al-Azhar University urged Brotherhood members to renounce violence and said his institution would resist political efforts to influence religious scholars, according to a translation by Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm. "Religious non-Islamist leaders of the Arab world want free of the sphere of the Muslim Brotherhood," Phares said. (Walid Phares to USA Today) [ Visit Website ]
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