The Other Muslim Bloggers

We tend to think of bloggers in the Middle East as liberal voices, individuals, quirky, free-thinking types who could one day liberalize the region. Not so fast. This is the Middle East, after all. The Muslim Brotherhood has discovered the medium, this Guardian writer explains. The writer almost seems to welcome it. One the more vexing problems in the Middle East, of course, is that some of the groups most adamantly fighting for democracy are Islamists - because they are eager to topple the autocracies and install a new reign of God. They want elections precisely once. And they want freedom for themselves solely to stifle the future freedoms of others.