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Second, and perhaps most important, Shahbagh is in many ways a
post-Tahrir Square phenomena in that it is about not installing an
Islamic Brotherhood or some equivalent, but precisely about removing
religious ideology from politics altogether.
One would expect that, rather than being neglected by the news media,
this story would be promoted as an example of a popular uprising against
repressive ideas. Shahbagh is about secularism rising up against the
forces of orthodoxy and fundamentalism. Yet many of the same analysts
who eagerly supported Tahrir Square seem complicit in shoving Shahbagh
under the rug. >>>
http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/5154-commentary-silence-speaks-volumes.html
Second, and perhaps most important, Shahbagh is in many ways a
post-Tahrir Square phenomena in that it is about not installing an
Islamic Brotherhood or some equivalent, but precisely about removing
religious ideology from politics altogether.
One would expect that, rather than being neglected by the news media,
this story would be promoted as an example of a popular uprising against
repressive ideas. Shahbagh is about secularism rising up against the
forces of orthodoxy and fundamentalism. Yet many of the same analysts
who eagerly supported Tahrir Square seem complicit in shoving Shahbagh
under the rug. >>>
http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/5154-commentary-silence-speaks-volumes.html
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