Broken pendulum: radicalism revisited
It is impossible to deny that in the political culture of Pakistan and Bangladesh, the democratic filter have been easily bartered and dismissed by weak political leadership, a military with historical political ambitions, a vacuum that has allowed the domination by radicalised religious political parties and a complacence of the populace and the international community not to hold leaders to standards that best serve the interests of the people,
It is impossible to deny that in the political culture of Pakistan and Bangladesh, the democratic filter have been easily bartered and dismissed by weak political leadership, a military with historical political ambitions, a vacuum that has allowed the domination by radicalised religious political parties and a complacence of the populace and the international community not to hold leaders to standards that best serve the interests of the people,
writes Tazreena Sajjad
ON FRIDAY, January 11, the Hudson Institute hosted a discussion on Maneeza Hossain’s book Broken Pendulum: Bangladesh’s Swing to Radicalism. Hossain’s argument in its basic form is that the current government, while trying to root out corruption, is corroding democracy and creating the impetus for the rise of radical Islamism. Through the process of de-legitimising the democracy project, grounds are being established for a virulent form of political Islam that is fast spiralling out of state control and oversight......................
ON FRIDAY, January 11, the Hudson Institute hosted a discussion on Maneeza Hossain’s book Broken Pendulum: Bangladesh’s Swing to Radicalism. Hossain’s argument in its basic form is that the current government, while trying to root out corruption, is corroding democracy and creating the impetus for the rise of radical Islamism. Through the process of de-legitimising the democracy project, grounds are being established for a virulent form of political Islam that is fast spiralling out of state control and oversight......................
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