Short interview with Bernard Lewis
“He said there was a woeful lack of awareness of both the magnitude and threat of the jihadist goal of radical Islam, stemming from both ignorance and a provincial colonialist outlook of the threat as “some local trouble.”
“Lewis said that the best hope for the future in the Muslim world was the spread of democracy in places where previously it would have been inconceivable - a phenomenon he dubbed “the Sharansky effect” after former MK and prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky, who has argued that democracy is the basis for peace.”
“It is still limited, precarious and dangerous, but it is happening, and that is the best hope for the future,” he concluded. “