Where's Your Secular Wave Now, Prof. Cole? (Bahrain Islamist Takeover Edition)
This would be fun if it wasn't so totally depressing:
Islamist candidates swept to victory in Bahrain's parliamentary election, splitting the vote between hardline Shiite and Sunni Muslims while female and liberal candidates fared poorly in the U.S.-allied kingdom, preliminary results showed Sunday. With several races headed for runoffs, Saturday's vote appeared to reinforce the sectarian divide between the Persian Gulf island's governing Sunni minority and the underprivileged Shiites who make up two-thirds of its 700,000 people.
Allahpundit sums it up quite depressingly: "Not a single seat went to a secular liberal". Awesome.
And now let's check back in with Professor Cole, the most quotable of the myriad public intellectuals that we're honored to have in our intellectual public sphere:
PS As for Friedman's main point, that Muslims haven't done a good job of fighting jihadi ideology and terrorism, it is bizarre.
Totally bizarre! They've been doing a GREAT job of fighting jihadi ideology. Totally awesome job!
Sigh. What a crank.
Previously: Juan Cole - Fraud, The Left's Pathetic Ignorance and Hatred of PM Sharon, Academics Who Attack Israel are Brave if Brave Means "Doing Things All Your Colleagues Who Agree With You Will Tell You That You Were Brave for Doing"
