ABSTRACT
For decades, it was a stated aim of jihadists and Islamists that the first order of business was not to destroy America or even Israel but rather to purge the Islamic world of those secular and so-called apostate regimes that refused to establish the Islamist agenda, institute Sharia (Islamic law), and promote universal jihad against Kafirs (unbelievers). The ironic result, the great unintended consequence of the “Arab Spring” as it is being termed, may be that the technology-savvy, prodemocracy, secular-oriented, spontaneously activated revolutionaries, who force abdications in some countries and ministerial changes in others, have unwittingly cleared the way for the Islamists to seize power, now that the once-implacable enemies of political Islam have been toppled.
