2013-08-27 Political Islam

08/30/13 • 54 min

Panel discussion: Amidst all the political turmoil and bloodshed in Egypt in the past few weeks, one of the first Arab to visit the new interim military junta was King Abdullah II of Jordan.While Prime Minister Erdogen of Turkey's Islamist AK Parti was not only the first to congratulate the Muslim Brotherhood's victory in 2011 and 2012, but was also the first to condemn the ouster of Morsi in 2013. So where do we stand now with political Islam? -M. Steven Fish, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. -Faheem Younus, Baltimore President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Founder of www.Muslimerican.com. -Li Guofu, Senior Research Fellow with China Institute of International Studies.

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