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To take political Islam seriously, the West can’t romanticise it

Shadi Hamid, a researcher on political Islam, has drawn a useful classification between politically active organisations like the Brotherhood, apolitical groups like the Hizb ut Tahrir, and those who operate outside and beyond politics like al Qa’eda. Another useful criteria differentiates between organisations that have never used violence as a means to attain power or have credibly renounced it and those who see violence as a legitimate instrument...