Robin Wright: "Rock the Casbah"
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Egyptian opposition politician Ayman Nour, center right takes part in a rally protesting the Egyptian emergency law at the Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 3, 2010. Anti-government protesters are demanding an end to the country's 30-year emergency law that restricts civil freedoms.
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
More than half the Islamic world is under the age of thirty, a crucial component of the epic upheaval taking place in so many Muslim countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa. In a new book award winning journalist Robin Wright offers an in depth account of the political and cultural cross currents transforming the region. She argues that a counter jihad has emerged that rejects both autocratic regimes and the extremist ideologies of Al Qaeda. Author and journalist Robin Wright joins us to talk about rage and rebellion across the Islamic world and why she believes the next decade is likely to be both more democratic and more Islamic.
Guests
Robin Wright
journalist, foreign policy analyst at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and editor of "The Iran Primer."
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Excerpted from "Rock the Casbah" by Robin Wright. Copyright 2011 by Robin Wright. Excerpted here by kind permission of Simon & Schuster:
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Hello Robin Wright,
Do you see this democratic phenomenon that you describe being different (and how so) in regions where Muslims are the minority -- e.g., Uighurs in Xinjiang (China); and Mindanao, Philippines (and, to a smaller extent, southern Thailand)?
Thank you.
I'm so glad to hear that Islamic extremism is no longer a threat /sarcasm
Was the CIA question legit or planted?
I recommend your listeners to listen to really hopeful video presentation by Maajid Nawaz : A global culture to fight extremism in TED Talks. He is an ex-radical who gives an excellent and sustainable model for a future without the scourge of terrorism.
Thank you Diane for bringing this show, and introducing Robin Wright's new book. I have a question.
What is the role the USA is currently playing vis-a-vis democratic changes in Saudi Arabia? The US is a strong ally to Saudi Arabia, yet the Saudi Arabia kingdom is biggest negative influence to democratization in the Arab world.
Thank you.
Anil
Yea well when 75% of muslim arabs still believe that muslims weren't behind 9/11 I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. What they replace their governments with when their basic grasp of facts is so warped is going to be questionable.