By William Dalrymple, the author of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 (THE GUARDIAN, 21/09/07): Six years after 9/11, throughout the Muslim world political Islam is on the march; the surprise is that its rise is happening democratically – not through the bomb, but the ballot box. Democracy is not the antidote to the Islamists
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