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Line 7: == Quotes == :<small>Alphabetized by author </small> * '''People all over the Arab world feel a sense of pride in shaking off decades of cowed passivity under dictatorships that ruled with no deference to popular wishes.''' And it has become respectable in the West as well. Egypt is now thought of as an exciting and progressive place; its people’s expressions of solidarity are welcomed by demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin; and its bright young activists are seen as models for a new kind of twenty-first-century mobilization. Events in the Arab world are being covered by the Western media more extensively than ever before and are being talked about positively in a fashion that is unprecedented. Before, when anything Muslim or Middle Eastern or Arab was reported on, it was almost always with a heavy negative connotation. Now, during this Arab spring, this has ceased to be the case. '''An area that was a byword for political stagnation is witnessing a rapid transformation that has caught the attention of the world.''' * '''What happened in Abbottobad ... has been the second death of [[Osama bin Laden]]. His physical one. Meanwhile, his symbolic, political and ideological [death] had already occurred on the squares of Cairo, Tunis, Damascus and Bengasi, where Al Qaeda had been ignored. Nobody exhalted it. Nobody mentioned it. The "Arab spring" has blossomed and exploded for want of democracy and freedom.''' It is not provoked by Islamic fanaticism, and even less inspired by the idea of a caliphate... launched by bin Laden. His terroristic instrument, Al Qaeda ... has been, and is, ignored by the Egyptian, Tunisian, Syrian or Libyan youth. For them, [Al Qaeda] is a bloodstained and obsolete tool. It is not a choice. It is outdated, even if its sporadic followers are still able to strike. Before the Americans, bin Laden had been symbolically killed by the people on Tahrir square and Burghiba avenue.▼ * [[w:Rashid Khalidi\|Rashid Khalidi]], in [http://www.thenation.com/article/158991/arab-spring "The Arab Spring", in ''The Nation'' (3 March 2011)] ** [[w:it:Bernardo Valli\|Bernardo Valli]], in "Il giovane viziato con lo sguardo timido diventato il 'principe del terrore': I soldi del padre e la svolta nella lotta contro l'Urss in Afghanistan" in ''La Republica'' (3 May 2011)▼ * '''Though it took a decade to find [[Osama bin Laden\|bin Laden]], there is one consolation for his long evasion of justice: He lived long enough to witness what some are calling the Arab Spring, the complete repudiation of his violent ideology.''' <br> As we debate how the United States can best influence the course of the Arab Spring, can’t we all agree that the most obvious thing we can do is stand as an example of a nation that holds an individual’s human rights as superior to the will of the majority or the wishes of government? Individuals might forfeit their life as punishment for breaking laws, but even then, as recognized in our Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, they are still entitled to respect for their basic human dignity, even if they have denied that respect to others. ** [[John McCain]], in [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bin-ladens-death-and-the-debate-over-torture/2011/05/11/AFd1mdsG_story.html "Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture" in ''The Washington Post'' (11 May 2011)] ▲* '''What happened in Abbottobad ... has been the second death of [[Osama bin Laden]]. His physical one. Meanwhile, his symbolic, political and ideological [death] had already occurred on the squares of Cairo, Tunis, Damascus and Bengasi, where Al Qaeda had been ignored. Nobody exhalted it. Nobody mentioned it. The "Arab spring" has blossomed and exploded for want of democracy and freedom.''' It is not provoked by Islamic fanaticism, and even less inspired by the idea of a caliphate... launched by bin Laden. His terroristic instrument, Al Qaeda ... has been, and is, ignored by the Egyptian, Tunisian, Syrian or Libyan youth. For them, [Al Qaeda] is a bloodstained and obsolete tool. It is not a choice. It is outdated, even if its sporadic followers are still able to strike. Before the Americans, bin Laden had been symbolically killed by the people on Tahrir square and Burghiba avenue. ▲** [[w:it:Bernardo Valli\|Bernardo Valli]], in "Il giovane viziato con lo sguardo timido diventato il 'principe del terrore': I soldi del padre e la svolta nella lotta contro l'Urss in Afghanistan" in ''La Republica'' (3 May 2011) ==External links==

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