The ruling Islamist Ennahda party
has agreed to step down. Ennahda’s move came after months of violent clashes
and even murders. The Islamists had held out against the protesters, swapping
out governments, but Morsi’s example frightened them into backing away from a
final confrontation for fear that their movement might suffer the same punitive
outlawing as Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt and Tunisia were the two great
victories of the Arab Spring. Now both of them have been undone.
The picture doesn’t look any brighter for the
Islamists elsewhere. The Muslim Brotherhood in Morocco faces rising protests.
The Libyan Muslim Brotherhood bit off more than it could chew with its
attempted coup and....To Read More....
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