Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman: Cole in Truthdig

My column in Truthdig is out, entitled Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Excerpt:

‘ The hysteria in American media about Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not only ignorant and demagogic, it is hypocritical. The United States has actively promoted Muslim Brotherhood branches in other countries when it suited its purposes, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, the Turkish and Indonesian cases of democratic transition in the Muslim world should have taught us something about how Muslim fundamentalist parties are themselves transformed in a democratic setting.’

Read the whole thing.