Two Sides of Political Islam: Moderate Islamist Parties Should Not Be Confused with Hardliners: Future Governments That Fail to Meet the Demands of Their People Risk Facing Further Uprisings

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North Africa has a new political landscape, one dominated by moderate Islamist parties. When the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt unfolded, the hope for democracy was as potent as ever, but now that Islamists have taken centre stage, it has been replaced with concern and worry.

This should not be the case. For the first time, Tunisians, Egyptians, Moroccans have been able to take part in free elections and the victory of Islamist parties should be celebrated as the choice of the population.

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisia's Ennahda and Morocco's Justice and Development Party (PJD) all have one task at …