Tiny Tunisia became the Arab world's unlikely trendsetter two years ago when its people confronted and toppled their autocratic President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, in turn inspiring uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East. Tunisia has now launched a second, equally important campaign that may further redefine the world's most volatile region. In a stunning about-face, elected Islamists have begun taking on radical brethren who invoke God to violate man-made law in a democracy. "This is a turning point in the revolution," Mondher Ben Ayed, an Islamist businessman with close government ties, told me at the Doha Forum in...
Democracy's Islamist Defenders
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