Both the West and the Arab rulers need to realize that the tense equation between the incumbent regimes and political Islam is not necessarily a zero-sum game. This has been learned the hard way by Algerian President Bouteflika who, through his Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation of February 2006, brought an end to a long and bloody civil war, the origins of which lay in the violent cancellation by the military of the Islamist Front’s (FIS) electoral victory in 1991.
西方和阿拉伯的统治者们都需要认识到，当权的政权和政治伊斯兰之间的紧张关系并非一定是零和游戏。阿尔吉利亚总统布特弗利卡对此有深切的体会。他在2006年2月提出和平和民族和解宪章，结束了旷日持久的血腥内战。这一内战由于1991年军队以暴力方式宣布伊斯兰阵线大选胜利无效而爆发。