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Qatar: West should embrace “Arab Spring” Islamists

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Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani was quoted today as rendering Islamists were likely to represent the next wave of political proficiency in the Arab world and that the West should encircle them.

Thani said in an interview with the Financial Times that moderate Islamists could assist in flap what he called extremist ideology.

“We shouldn’t fear them, let’s cooperate with them,” said Thani, whose Gulf Arab state is home to Al Jazeera television.

“We should not have a problem with anyone who operates within the norms of international law, comes to proficiency and fights terrorism,” he said.

In Egypt, which is holding its first-class free election in six decades, the Muslim Brotherhood expects to pick up two-fifths of the vote for an assembly that might limit the proficiency of the generals.

The Brotherhood, Egypt’s oldest and best-organised Islamist group, hopes its new Freedom and Justice Party will secure a solid platformulate in parliament, rendering it hopes to formulate a cooperative government once polls are owing to in January.

Tunisia ousted its leader in the first-class “Arab Spring” revolution this year, and in the country’s first-class democratic election Tunisians elected a cooperative government in October led by the moderate Islamist Ennahda party.

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