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by: Adam Thomas
2010-4-23
Gerges said that “if today we were to have elections in the Muslim world, mainstream Islamists, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, would basically obtain between 25 and 30 percent of the electorate in Muslims societies. That's a huge number. When we say there are about 1.3 billion Muslims and mainstream Islamism garner between 25 and 30 percent, that is a major social movement and political movement in the Muslim world. What I am trying to say is that mainstream Islamists, those Islamists that have renounced use of force in the service of politics, basically represent the most important constituency.”..
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