Are the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions the beginning of the end for islamic theocracies worldwide?
similar to how the Communist totalitarian regimes fell like dominoes in the 1980′s?
Will Arab youth rise against the oppressive clerical governments?
Will they all fail as in Iran last year?
One can only hope so. I hope this is the beginning of an Islam Reformation, the beginning of an Islamic Age of Enlightenment, such as the Western World had sometime back.
Perhaps these younger, better educated moslem youth can create a newer form of Islam which will allow them to remain moslem, yet let them realise they can be part of a larger, civilised Western world without threat from us and to us.
I wish them all the luck in the world. It IS time for a change.
Tunisia Youth
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