Islamists’ ambivalence about the foundations and content of human rights has translated into constitutional and legal practices that endanger the full enjoyment of certain universal human rights in the emerging regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. Their conception of democracy has been reduced to competition in ballot boxes with less appreciation for the rights of minorities, individual liberties, the separation of powers and the independence of public institutions. If this trend were to continue, Islamists would lead post-revolutionary regimes to authoritarian majorities and not true democracies as envisaged by the revolutions.