“Political Islam” has taken charge. According to a number of observers, the Arab Spring has swung in the direction of an Islamist Spring. Those, by and large young people, who brought about the Arab Spring, have found themselves sidelined by later developments, as their Spring is replaced by a political Islam that did not lie behind the popular uprising (and the indications from the elections in Libya show no change in this general pattern). In the main, it has been fair and proper...