With the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and the even more puritanical Salafist Al Nour Party having stunned both themselves and Egyptians by garnering more than 60 percent of the seats in Egypt’s parliamentary election, we’re about to see a unique lab test for the Middle East: What happens when political Islam has to wrestle with modernity and globalization without oil?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/friedman-political-islam-without-oil.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/friedman-political-islam-without-oil.html
