Another important question is whether political Islam will move toward democracy and acceptance of modernity or remain trapped in radicalism and invocation of the past? The forefront of this battle is, at the moment, not in the Middle East, but in Turkey; nevertheless, the result is bound to have more general significance.
另一个重要的问题是政治伊斯兰教是会朝着民主和接受现代性的方向发展还是继续沉陷在过去的激进主义和符咒之中？当下，这场战斗的最前沿不在中东而在土耳其；不论如何，其结果必定会具有更为广泛的意义。