Has Political Islam Failed in Algeria?
The question whether Political Islam has failed or not due to the
internal structure of the Islamic political movement, in either Algeria or any
other country in the Islamic World, is an important question for the analysis of
the politicized Islamic phenomena. Olivier Roy sees the movement as a failure,
not only in Algeria but also in the whole area from Casablanca to Tashkent, the
movement has resulted in failure due to many reasons that are seen as common
among all the divisions of the movement regardless of their different socio-
economic and political background that are more or less responsible of the
generation of such movements. The Algerian case is the best case one can see as
a direct application of Roy's theoretical analysis of the Failure of political
Islam.
The Islamic movement started in Algeria by the end of the 1980's, after
a long era of the corrupt regime and it's economic in efficiency that led the
country to live under......
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