Liberals vs conservatives

As a relatively new blogger, who has been reading and really getting into the Arab blogs-love the Egyptian ones-I have come to find a few quite annoying. I know this will be controversial, but whatever. Before I get into this, I guess I should place myself, I am quite leftist, well really leftist, so secular, and as a woman in the Arab world, not a big fan of the conservative movements in this region and their policies on women. Eventhough if you look at the Jordanian parliament and some of the laws (nationality, Ahwal Almadaneyeh, etc.) that have been suggested and how they were voted down not only by the conservatives, but also by the women, and the liberal forces within our parliament, one should be careful of to many generalizations.
Bas back to the point, the Arab blogs seems to range from quite liberal to really conservative, and that is great, the whole point is for all points of view to be heard and discussed. But I have been getting annoyed with the fact that some of the liberal ones-for they are the ones I seem to always end up on-are so anti the Islamist movements in the Arab world. I mean there seems to be an attack on movements such as Hamas and Hizbullah, and the Muslim Brotherhood, this is good if the arguments where well thought out and had backing. But some of them are things like look at these pictures they are brainwashing kids...blah blah.
I also find this idea that we secular people have that if an Islamist government is formed, that they will instantly ruin the country. I mean look at what is happening in Palestine...Hamas was voted in-for whatever reason-democratically, and instantly people have decided that they are going to ruin Palestine. This way of think is exactly what happened in Algeria and look at what happened in that country. Instead of allowing the government to be formed and give them and the Algerians see if they were correct to vote them in, instantly the international community interfered and civil war broke out!
There is a real fear and threat that Hamas and Fateh will end up forgetting their real enemy and start fighting each other. Instead of this election that started quite well, ending with a new government-that Hamas wants to be an alliance of the different Palestinian parties-we have different factions saying that they wont work with Hamas. How completely illogical is that and just plain stupid? Why not allow the government to be formed, let Hamas start dealing with the Israelis-because they will have to-and who knows, we might see this party that everyone is so worried about prove everyone wrong. There is the possibility that the expectations of the 'liberals' in the Arab world will come true, but isn't that what democracy is all about? You vote for someone, and when their time is up you decide if you want them back or not.
All over the world where people are allowed to vote, sometimes they get leaderships that they are not completely happy with, or where the international community is not very pleased with, bas they are left alone. Why are the Islamist movements not given the same respect? The argument that they do not give that respect. I think is rubbish and it can not be justified currently, for we have not had an experience with an Islamist government. Some will say look at what happened in Iran, but the method that they came into power was not elections, but out right revolution. Completely different then people going out to vote, where there is a campaign where people give you a platform of their agenda and you decide if they represent you or not.
Back to the bloggers, I just think that extremes-on both sides-are always a bit much, but what I find what is worse is when liberals who are all about opening up and allowing people to be free and think what they want and be how they want, start to lecture the conservatives about changing and not allowing there to be these two sides in our political arena. Isn't that what the Liberals are so worried about, that if the Islamists get into power they won't have the space to speak and be in opposition? Yet they seem to be doing the same, seems a bit like a double standard.