Amira Al Hussaini
@AmootFelBahrain @reem_tweets No, we are not in Somalia, because there everyone can get armed: we are in #Bahrain where u can attack me and I have to keep quiet because there is NOTHING I can do other than shut up and put up with all the abuse and humiliation I get from anonymous people I don’t know and whom I have not harmed in anyway. Please look at your reactions and threats: Is this fair? Do you know me? Have I ever abused, threatened or harmed you in anyway? I have all the international contacts and connections to do real damage but have not used them in anyway because I worry about my country and its future, which I am invested in because I don’t have a Plan B or a Plan C. I am Bahraini and will always be Bahraini. It is my country and I accept the status quo. I have not taken part in the protests and have been vocal about their uselessness, and what they will bring to Bahrain, even BEFORE they started. I don’t want a full fledged democracy in Bahrain because I have an atlas which shows me that the geo-political factors in this part of the world do not support a democracy in the true sense. The events of the last few months also show that as a people, we are not cut for democracy and all the freedoms and liberties it brings. I have laid all my cards out in the open: I am not from the pro-democracy camp in Bahrain. It is a lovely ideology - but it isn’t for us. Back to the name-calling, allow me to preach: you are part of a herd hellbent on terrorising me along with people who have nothing to do with anything just because you have been emboldened enough to cross all the lines of respect and etiquette. Is this what your parents have taught you? Is this what you were taught at school? I am sure you love Bahrain as much as I do, so please, as a Bahraini, I beg you to look at your actions and stop tarnishing the reputation of Bahrain and its people. Your trolling and cyber bullying is damaging, unacceptable and punishable by law in any respectable part of the world. You cannot label people as traitors and continue with this witch hunt. It serves no purpose. It just makes you look bad. The world is disgusted with your behaviour. I try to explain it that you are children and don’t understand the repercussions of your handiwork, but colleagues point out that you are seemingly smart and educated. This makes you responsible people, the future of Bahrain, the same Bahrain I belong to. You have no more rights over Bahrain than I do nor do I. You are not more Bahraini than I am and I am not more Bahraini than you are. I am sincere in my love for Bahrain - and all things Bahraini. I have the capacity to forget and forgive. I am able to give everyone the benefit of the doubt - even the people who threatened to let their pit bulls rape my cats. Do you know why? Because I am Bahraini and I love Bahrain. Because I want to live in peace in Bahrain, with all my loved ones and because I believe that this will blow away soon, and all Bahrainis will go back to their senses. I don’t know if you will read this or whether I have just wasted a precious five minutes of a sunny morning in Berlin lecturing you. I hope you do and stop the cyber bullying.
May 2011
5 posts
Here are some of the remnants, which we gathered from where the munitions landed for dimension-taking and other aspects of making the I.D. The story will be on the NYT site very soon.
For those urging us to be faster (faster!) please forgive the hours that we spent checking and checking…
Recent social media news in the Middle East involves the arrest of two bloggers as well as one human rights activist in Saudi Arabia. The arrests follow new stricter free speech laws issued by King Abdullah bin Abd al-’Aziz on April 29.
Fadhil Makki al-Manasif, the human rights activist, was arrested on May 1 for participating in demonstrations against the government. Al-Manasif also documented cases of human rights violations. More than 20 other demonstrators were arrested by Saudi authorities over the past week.
Bloggers Mustafa al-Badr Al Mubarak and Husain Kazim al-Hashim were arrested for violating the new laws by participating in and blogging about these peaceful protests.
A series of bans starting in 2011 have increasingly worked towards curtailing the Saudi subject’s free speech and expression. In March, Prince Nayef bin Abd al-’Aziz and the Council of Senior Religious Scholars reiterated the outlawing of demonstrations.
” —http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/two-bloggers-in-saudi-arabia-arrested-due-to-strict-media-laws/A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White House announcement.
Keith Urbahn wasn’t the first to speculate Bin Laden’s death, but he was the one who gained the most trust from the network. Why did this happen?
Before May 1st, not even the smartest of machine learning algorithms could have predicted Keith Urbahn’s online relevancy score, or his potential to spark an incredibly viral information flow. While politicos “in the know” certainly knew him or of him, his previous interactions and size and nature of his social graph did little to reflect his potential to generate thousands of people’s willingness to trust within a matter of minutes.
