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Voices of dissent against the political status quo and the urge for transformation and democratization of Arab World have been visible on the scene since long. The desire for socio-political change was based on the well-founded perception of the masses that root cause of their miseries and humiliation lies in continuation of autocratic rulers and invasion of Western culture. West, sensing fear of coming these forces of dissent into power might deny the Western World a free access to their oil and other natural resources, prompted the West to intervene in Middle East to protect the rule of suppressive regimes and preserve their interests. This re-alignment made the local conflict between the masses and the rulers, three-dimensional. However, 9/11 came to change their perception that peace and stability in the region and avoidance of more 9/11rests in addressing the sense of deprivation amongst the people. The recipe US invented to pacify the resentment of the Arab masses was through exporting democracy in a way that doesn’t disturb the existing regimes of their choice. To achieve this the West is conspiring with the help of enormous funds and huge financial inputs to produce a secularized, modernistic, docile, spineless variety of Islam unable to challenge, pose any danger to, or be able to question any country, government, culture or civilization. The West ignores to believe that, if democratization is to succeed in the Arab Region, it will have to be planted in fertile soil, i.e. in line with the politico- economic, and socio- cultural model of Arabs’ own Islamic ethos. Therefore, Western agenda of democratization through reformation has failed miserably and the masses are poised for revival of their Islamic ethicospiritual& political values and culture, which is evident in most of the elections held during the last few years. The ideas of selfgovernance and personal involvement in the political process must be presented in a respectful and culturally sensitive manner if they are to ever gain respect with the masses
Dr. Qadar Bakhsh Baloch,. (2007) DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE ARAB WORLD: Revival Or Reformation? , The Dialogue, Volume 2, Issue 1.
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