What does not help – and in fact backfires – is for outsiders to view the political crisis of Middle Eastern societies as the result of an Islamist-secularist divide. This perspective plays directly into the hands of authoritarian rulers like Erdoğan, who can leverage the perceived Islamophobia of foreign powers to mobilize their political base.
外部把中东社会的政治危机视为伊斯兰-世俗分歧的结果，这无助于事，甚至会帮倒忙。这一观点直接帮助了埃尔多安等集权统治者，他们利用外国势力的伊斯兰恐惧症动员自己的政治基础。侵犯人权和践踏法治精神必须因为侵犯人权和践踏法治精神而受到谴责，而不应该与某种文化和宗教挂钩。