An article in the Washington Post, March 4, is drawing concern among some that the Obama administration is preparing for Islamic radical governments to take over North Africa and the Middle East.

President Obama insists there has to be a new beginning with Islam and that Islamic ideology and democratic values are compatible.

Is the White House correct? Will it bring more freedom and democracy to the region? Or is this the beginning of the Islamization of the Arab and Muslim world?

CBN Senior International Correspondent George Thomas spoke with John Waage who has covered Middle East politics for years. Click play to watch his analysis.

*Originally broadcast on March 4, 2011.