{"id":347,"date":"2011-05-21T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=347"},"modified":"2011-05-21T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T16:42:37","slug":"research-shows-voters-rejecting-islamic-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Research shows voters rejecting Islamic parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>By Mark Derewicz,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/endeavors.unc.edu\/power_to_the_people\">Endeavors<\/a> magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/5image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"5image\" src=\"https:\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/5image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Kurzman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No one knows what will happen in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. But history paints a hopeful picture of how things might go if democratic elections are allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Sociologist Charles Kurzman and grad student Ijlal Naqvi studied 86 elections over the past 40 years in 20 countries where at least one Islamic party was allowed to partake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters in these places have overwhelmingly turned up their noses at such parties,\u201d Kurzman says. Most Islamic parties earned less than 10 percent of the vote. Eighty percent of the Islamic parties got less than 20 percent of the vote. These percentages have barely changed since\u00a02001.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic parties won elections in Algeria in 1991 and the Palestinian territories in 2006. But Kurzman says those are exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe freer and fairer an election is, the worse the Islamic parties do,\u201d he says. That has helped soften party platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In countries where more parties are allowed to partake, Islamic parties focus more on women\u2019s rights and democracy and less on Sharia and armed jihad. For instance, Morocco\u2019s Justice and Development Party and Jordan\u2019s Islamic Action Front no longer include Sharia in their platforms. In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood has eschewed violence and condemned the attacks of September 11,2001.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows what will happen in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. 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