High-capacity low-democracy regimes use rights rhetoric while suppressing organized Islamist opposition

Evidence

Government agents rounded up suspected Islamists and quickly tried many of them under procedures that domestic and international human rights organizations judged unfair. The government delayed municipal elections from June to September, and put increasing pressure on the (legal) Islamist Justice and Development Party. The party responded by contesting only a few seats in Casablanca, Fes, and Rabat. Meanwhile, the government used newly passed laws against terrorism to muzzle and press and convict journalists for “insulting the king” (Slyomovics 2005). Despite some royal gestures toward democratic participation, the regime remains in the zone of high capacity and low democracy. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 513

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on the reader’s test of whether institutional absorption defuses subordinate-group politicization — here a nominally legal party gets pressured and marginalized, showing coercion can coexist with legal channels. — connects to: Totalitarian regimes legitimize eliminating opposition as unnecessary and weak; Regimes can grant freer speech while tightening their grip on organized action.; Official rhetoric framing Islam as ideology licensed anti-Muslim suspicion — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 864 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 513

Broader Connections

• Regimes can grant freer speech while tightening their grip on organized action. #expands (0.82)
• Soviet promises of Muslim freedom concealed campaigns of suppression #exemplifies (0.80) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 417
• State repression of religious dissident Muslims coerces other Muslims into political silence #expands (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 82
• Authoritarians support eroding speech rights rather than abolishing them outright #expands (0.76) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3609
• Official rhetoric framing Islam as ideology licensed anti-Muslim suspicion #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 864
• Totalitarian regimes legitimize eliminating opposition as unnecessary and weak #qualifies (0.74)
• Revolutionary rhetoric can mask active counterrevolutionary alliances #exemplifies (0.72)
• Aristocracies weaponized antisemitic slogans to mobilize mobs against liberalism #exemplifies (0.71) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 146