Word: authoritarianism
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...audience the officially-sanctioned, cookie-cutter version of events typical of the region's state-owned networks, Al Jazeera gives equal time to dissident, even revolutionary views of Islam, human rights and the governments of the region. And such irreverence has naturally earned it plenty of enemies among the authoritarian regimes that run the Arab world. But it has also drawn a loyal audience of some 40 million viewers, based everywhere from Washington to Tehran...
...audience the officially-sanctioned, cookie-cutter version of events typical of the region's state-owned networks, Al Jazeera gives equal time to dissident, even revolutionary views of Islam, human rights and the governments of the region. And such irreverence has naturally earned it plenty of enemies among the authoritarian regimes that run the Arab world. But it has also drawn a loyal audience of some 40 million viewers, based everywhere from Washington to Tehran...
...freed of the scourge of Islamist terrorism, that solution may not suffice - because unlike the state-sponsored terrorism of the 1970s and '80s, which came out of rogue nations like Libya and Syria, many of the terrorist groups Bin Laden has brought together first emerged under authoritarian regimes backed by the West...
...Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Algeria's Armed Islamic Group, which appear to have provided a number of key operatives for Bin Laden's networks, both emerged in situations where democratic channels were closed to Islamists and other opposition groups. In the case of Pakistan, the authoritarian regime of the late General Zia ul-Haq actually encouraged the emergence of Islamist groups as a bulwark against domestic leftists and a vanguard to fight the Soviets in neighboring Afghanistan. Now, some of those same Islamists may be coming back to haunt the current military government...
...against an otherworldly terrain of rubble and soot, a pedestrian-cluttered Wall Street seemed more like the hub of an authoritarian state than the financial capital of the world...