[AWR: This is a full text translation of a Dutch text with permission of the author.]

Sociology professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim: “You can beat Saddam Hussein, no doubt. But what you cannot do is prevent a new Saddam Hussein from appearing, a new Bin Laden. As long as there is no democracy, no state with civil organizations, these kind of people will again and again gain influence and power.” Intellectuals in Cairo, the intellectual and theological center of Muslims and Arabs, are afraid of their own future. “You write and you hope it will not put you in prison. Or you do not write,” someone says.