always good to fall dictators. This is what happened in Egypt and what hopefully happen in the Libyan dictatorship and elsewhere in the Arab world, and Cuba and China. However, no puerile share the optimism of some journalists who, by inociencia or ignorance, which is always at fault in a journalist to write or speak about the Arab countries to open up to democracy and listening, it sounds like a wave of freedom and democracy "to the West" opens in the Islamic world.
First, because the term "democracy" is not the same in the West than the Arab-Islamic world, as you know the diplomats and journalists who know this area. Moreover, the Western mind, by nature tax from the time of the Enlightenment, tend to think that what we have is the best and that all other people have to take democracy with the same structure and function, as something sacred, regardless of different cultures and the peculiarities of each people. Is the simplification that led the U.S. to commit so many blunders in Iraq and other Islamic countries.
Second, Muslim fundamentalists have always exploited the popular discontent with oppressive regimes to be installed in power and, in fact, already doing in Egypt, where Christian women have been excluded from the reform commission constitutional. The Coptic Christian community is the oldest historic Egypt, so you do not understand this exclusion.
In this sense, the tactic of Islamic fundamentalism is similar to that of socialism accepts the democratic game whenever it is useful to gain power. But once installed on it, their action is aimed at transforming society ideologically and tends to perpetuate: democracy is not only a stage on the way to the ideal socialist society. With Islamic fundamentalism something similar happens. In Egypt, as seen in the Muslim Brotherhood, who now play for moderation, and support for fundamentalist groups to riots (there is only one thing I hate more than U.S. Jihadis: Muslim governments themselves). Notice to corroborate
in Turkey, where Islamists, assuming estretégicamente democracy, are making a radical social transformation, to the point that the Sharia is already beginning to be a social norm. Anyone who has traveled to that country some years ago and has returned recently, there noticed changes: before, almost no women wearing the veil, now, the veil is widespread, too, before you could buy alcohol in stores, is now banned its sale, except in certain very specific places, are just two examples) . Point is also the strange and recent marriage between Turkey and the evil regime of Iran.
Nor should one forget that first regimes have been toppled by the revolutionary wave, those of Tunisia and Egypt, are among the most "westernized" as in its day was the Shah's Iran or Turkey Kemal "Ataturk "- and its features, though undemocratic, tended to look for references in Western culture, rather than socio-political tradition of Islam. Therefore, it is not clear that the fruit of these revolutions will be a shift to western social models, offer guarantees of universal human rights: In any case, what is happening is a reaction to despotic regimes that have been copied the worst vices of the West. At this, the fundamentalist Islam is a force that combines the concepts of national pride and dignity, against a corrupt rulers "to the West." In my opinion, it is easier to be a return to traditional values \u200b\u200bof these societies, which no doubt will benefit fundamentalists.
Therefore, although it can not be more than positive reception the fall of the current dictators in Tunisia and Egypt (and perhaps in the coming days, other Muslim countries), we should not forget that we have a "hint" of democracy, felt very, very uncertain, according to what is already beginning to discern, especially after events such as the exclusion of women and pre-constitutional commission critianos in Egypt or the murder of a Catholic priest by fundamentalists in Tunisia.
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