Secular despots – coming soon to an Arab state near you | Middle East

From a recent article in the all mighty and wise Economist, we learn that a new crop of “secular” Arab despots are seizing on what it calls our “zeitgeist”. They are pushing forward with a robust secularising agenda that will outmanoeuvre and bypass their Islamist opposition, appease their boisterous middle-class constituencies, and in the process solidify their iron fist of tyranny while