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Is political Islam dying?

Posted in Hillel Fradkin, Islamism, Jon Alterman on Dec 20th, 2007 1 Comment »

From Hillel Fradkin
Jon Alterman, in a piece for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (also here), addresses what he sees as a growing number of obituaries for political Islam. Alterman’s judgment about this trend is sober and reasonable: It is far too soon to tell. Although Alterman does not cite by name those who [...]

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