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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; engaging Islamists</title>
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	<description>Democracy Digest provides news, analysis and information on democracy promotion and related matters. The Digest is produced at the National Endowment for Democracy.</description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s dynastic succession contested, as Muslim Brotherhood fractures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Gamal Mubarak succeed his father as Egypt’s next president? Is the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s leading opposition force, about to split? Should liberal and democratic forces align themselves with the Brotherhood to oppose &#8220;hereditary democracy&#8221;  even at the risk of absorbing elements of the Islamists’ unsavory politics?
These are some of the questions being raised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/corruption/egypts-dynastic-succession-contested-as-muslim-brotherhood-fractures.html</link>
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		<title>Arab democracy: ball is in Islamists&#8217; court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to developing democracy in the Arab world, the onus is on Islamist opposition groups, write Amr Hamzawy and Jeffrey Christiansen. In his Cairo speech, President Barack Obama signaled a willingness to engage Islamist parties, stating that the U.S. will respect “all law-abiding voices … even if we disagree with them” and will [...]]]></description>
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