Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State

In September 30, 2011, ''Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State'' highlights a debate about governance in the Middle East that has been raging for decades. The Arab Spring has brought it to the forefront, where it should be. It is a turning point of the Arab world. At the center of the debates is a new breed of politician who has risen from an Islamist milieu but accepts an essentially secular state, a current that some scholars have already taken to identifying as ''post Islamist.'' Its foremost exemplars are Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party in Turkey, whose intellectuals speak of a shared experience and a common heritage with some of the younger members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and with the Ennahda Party in Tunisia. Like Turkey, Tunisia faced decades of astate-enforced secularism that never completely reconciled itself with a conservative population.
I think this argument betweeen Islamists is nothing new. It started shortly after Mohammed (PBUH) died and has not ceased since. All major religions have their sects, and it is up to the leadership of the sects to get together and decide what is in the best interest of their core religion. They are all Muslims, and so they need to find a way to resolve differences where they can and accept them where they cannot. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=News&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CA268367545&mode=view