Whether fundamentalist or not – how grateful are young Arabs for the emergence of Facebook and Twitter – which are, after all, the inventions of America’s open society? Dar al-Hayat columnist Jameel Theyabi writes of the new lease on life social networks have provided young Arabs and their elders, and expresses his deep thanks for these powerful tools that have enabled people to take down regimes and wrest back control of their futures.
For Dar al-Hayat, Jameel Theyabi writes in part:
Thank you Facebook! Thank you Twitter! Thank you YouTube! Thank you to all the new media tools, the contents they contain and their users, which has enabled Arab young people who have endured oppression and injustice to express the suffering of their elders and put forward their plans without fear from the fists of security officials and partisan or ideological controls.
Thanks to the new media, that has allowed the people to topple governments and regimes which have dominated them for endless decades. Thanks to new media, that has terrified governments which never cared about the people and have refused to adopt reform. Thanks to independent media, with its high-pitch and fast-pace that has documented the images of hope and sparked the people to shake the dust of governments and regimes accustomed to lashing their citizens and expanding bureaucracy, selfishness and nepotism.
Thank you Twitter for those abbreviated messages that act as ‘punches’ to the chests of governments that had all but eliminated the role of the young, and which forced the rulers to adopt reform. … Arab countries have failed to achieve development, democracy and justice, which has sparked Arab electronic anger. This spread until it broke the deadlock and conveyed the will of the people via new media.”
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