When Islamists Govern Posted by Shadi Hamid

Something I'm hearing more now is that Gaza is evidence that Islamism is much more effective as an oppositional rather than a governing ideology. I find this to be a strange and misleading conclusion to draw from the Palestinian experience. First of all, Hamas (as well as Hezbollah) should not be treated as representative of political Islam. It is a violent group that hasn’t yet renounced terrorism. Nearly all other mainstream Islamist groups in the Muslim world are both 1) nonviolent, and have 2) formally committed themselves to respecting the rules of the democratic process (which Hezbollah, for instance, has not).

In any case, there’s little reason to think that the “Islamists can’t govern” thesis is correct. There are many examples of Islamists governing at the regional and national levels, after having won regional or national elections (Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Algeria, Jordan, Turkey). Few, if any, of them were outright failures, some were moderately successful, most were at the very least as successful as comparable secular parties, as and at least one - the AKP in Turkey - has proven quite successful.

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[Greg Sanders]

If we limit ourselves to Islamist parties that use violence, does the theory hold? I expect the success rate would certainly drop, but I'm not sure if there a militant governing success stories.

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