http://eastofcenter.tol.org/2012/05/rewrite-the-azerbaijan-narrative/ Transitions Online Staff Blog Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://eastofcenter.tol.org/2012/05/rewrite-the-azerbaijan-narrative/#comment-1007 mbkirova Fri, 25 May 2012 04:28:15 +0000 http://eastofcenter.tol.org/?p=4514#comment-1007 Thanks for the common sense here, TOL. A secular Muslim state in this region is a wonderful thing, and name me an oil country that can afford a western style democracy. Let's be patient with this emerging country. When I was there last year, I didn't much like the way the government was handling the oil money -- Ceaucescu-like building projects in Baku at the expense of infrastructural development -- but most folks we met there were also 'patient' with the government because the alternative (and serious risk) of Islamic takeover is all too real. Thanks for the common sense here, TOL. A secular Muslim state in this region is a wonderful thing, and name me an oil country that can afford a western style democracy. Let’s be patient with this emerging country. When I was there last year, I didn’t much like the way the government was handling the oil money — Ceaucescu-like building projects in Baku at the expense of infrastructural development — but most folks we met there were also ‘patient’ with the government because the alternative (and serious risk) of Islamic takeover is all too real.

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