Yes, I think the strategy of “lie to religious people, get into power, and kill the priests” (even if it weren’t a betrayal of the peoples’ trust) would not only fail in the Muslim world, but make it very difficult for another revolution to follow anywhere in the Muslim world for decades afterwards.
Yes, I think the strategy of “lie to religious people, get into power, and kill the priests” (even if it weren’t a betrayal of the peoples’ trust) would not only fail in the Muslim world, but make it very difficult for another revolution to follow anywhere in the Muslim world for decades afterwards.