{"id":251,"date":"2012-04-02T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-06-05T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:57:41","slug":"why-islamist-win-elections-democracy-war-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/why-islamist-win-elections-democracy-war-on-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My article this week\u00a0is at <a title=\"The Huffington Post Matthew VanDyke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/\">The Huffington Post<\/a>.\u00a0Click the text below to read it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/why-islamists-winning-ele_b_1398261.html\">Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/why-islamists-winning-ele_b_1398261.html\">&#8220;Journalists, pundits and politicians seem increasingly obsessed with fears that Islamists winning elections in the wake of successful Arab Spring uprisings will prove detrimental to democracy, regional security, and the War on Terrorism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/why-islamists-winning-ele_b_1398261.html\">Nothing could be further from the truth&#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/why-islamists-winning-ele_b_1398261.html\">Read more at The Huffington Post<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism My article this week\u00a0is at The Huffington Post.\u00a0Click the text below to read it: Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/why-islamist-win-elections-democracy-war-on-terrorism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,3,4,30,7,31],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaeda-2","category-arab-spring","category-democracy","category-egypt","category-libya","category-terrorism","tag-islamist","tag-muslim-brotherhood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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