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Twenty-eight months after Operation Iraqi Freedom, there is an ongoing public debate on the war's repercussions.
IslamOnline.net's Muslim Affairs section will be providing special coverage of the heated discussion of the US role in Middle East change. In the next few months, through our various materials (articles, live dialogue sessions, discussion forums, polls, multimedia presentations, and e-mail–based debates), we will raise the question of whether the US-led war on Iraq has started the country's democratization process and set the stage for reform in the Middle East, a region long-dominated by dictatorships. Be sure to follow our updates.
Today in Is Democracy Taking Hold in Iraq?, we present two opposing viewpoints on democracy and freedom in the war-torn country:
- In his article “ Rethinking the Iraq War: Time for American Muslims to Support Iraqi Democracy ,” Shadi Hamid, an Egyptian-American master's candidate in Arab studies at Georgetown University, writes, “The war itself is over. ... Let us put our dislike of Bush and his coterie of warmongering, torture-condoning neo-cons aside, and focus on what is really important—the future of our Iraqi brothers and sisters, who deserve nothing less than to live as free citizens, free from the evils of autocracy and the scourge of terrorism.” Click here to read the article in full.
- Jo Wilding, a British activist who spent several months in Iraq—before, during, and after the war—holds a different opinion. In her article “ The ‘Right Message' About Democracy in Iraq ,” she explains why the new Iraqi government is “over a barrel” and there is “still no democracy for the Iraqi people.” Click here to read the article in full.
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