"Islam can vote, if we let it," NYT Op-Ed

NYT Op-Ed 20 May 05, by SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM. A candidate in Egypt's presidential elections; he holds that there are increasingly moderate islamic parties which will become vehicles of MENA democratization. He opposes the nullification of Algeria's elections in 1991 (in this particular case, he has an extremely generous definition of what are 'modedrate' islamic parities!).
    A colleague tells me: "Interestingly former CIA analyst, Reuel Gerecht (now at the AEI) also is making a related, possibly more radical argument, that the real vehicle for democratization in the ME will be the Islamists!"