To those suffering under a US backed secular tyrant, the Islamists may seem like freedom. But if they do not learn from History they will repeat it. The history of democracy for the Arabs is “one man, one vote, one time”. And if they think their life is hell under a secular tyrant, they will learn just how unbearable it is under a religious tyrant.
A secular tyrant at least isn't a moralist busybody making sure no women can work or go anywhere alone or be educated, etc, etc, etc.
>>>”To those suffering under a US backed secular tyrant, the Islamists may seem like freedom. But if they do not learn from History they will repeat it. The history of democracy for the Arabs is “one man, one vote, one time”.<<<
To most Moslem-Arabs their history began with Islam & they are quite proud of it. To most Arabs their pre-Islam history mainly has decorative values.
Nonetheless, hopefully, in the future, these Moslems will take full credit for their own current efforts instead of later blaming the West should they feel oppressed.