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[A short course on the nature of Islam from Clare Lopez, former CIA officer, and now a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on national defense, Islam, Iran, and counterterrorism issues. df]
by Clare M. Lopez
Islamic-style authoritarianism is the dominant characteristic shared by both the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, theocrats and non-theocrats: one or the other must be dominant. The cannot share power. One side or the other must come out on top. Both of these conflicts, in Syria and Egypt, are, at their base, about the inseparability of Mosque and State in Islam, and the burning zeal of those believers who have no tolerance for Arab and Muslim regimes they see as allowing the two to function apart.
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