Lebanon's ex-military expert casts doubt on nature of Arab spring
TNA - Beirut
We fear that what is happening is the process of burning of the peoples to achieve the West's interest
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Beirut - Taqrib News Agency (TNA) - Arab Military expert Retired General Amin Hoteit considered that we can not label everything of what is happening in the Arab countries a revolution, but there is semi-revolutions or mobility of people or a process of foreign interference, wondering what is the nature of mobility that exist today in the Arab countries? What is the religion site of this movement and who benefits from it? And specifically Islam site of what is going on?
In a seminar hosted by Institute of "Contemporary Islamic Thought" and "Islamic Cultural Center" under the title "Arab movement between the revolution and protest, and the location religion", Hoteit explained : "Some described what is happening as a result of the religious movement or placed it in the framework of the Islamic awakening and some of them felt that Religion is a component among several components", and wondered "whether the move in the Arab world is a revolution?
After explaining the concept of revolution and its significance, the Lebanese General reached to a conclusion of "What is happening in the Arab world today is not a revolution in the sense integrated as in the French Revolution or the Iranian revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution .. What is happening in the Arab world mobility dropped the heads of the Arab regimes with the promise of change results, but there is no guarantees, but what is happening raise the fear that people was used to achieve foreign interests or of non-continuity of the movement to achieve the desired results as in Tunisia and Egypt". He added "as a result of what happened, we can describe the mobility of a popular movement or exhibitions".
Military expert considered that stored Islamic values played a role in moving these activities, despite the existence of conversations or opinions prohibiting actions and demonstrations, as happened in Saudi Arabia, a lot of secular participated in movements and those who do not adhere to Islamic law, in addition to the presence of non-Muslim groups participated in both movements to get their rights or to enhance their political role.
"There is fear of the increased control of the West on the region, and there is fear on Islam and Muslims, of what is going on.. We fear that what is happening is the process of burning of the peoples to achieve the West's interest, and we refuse to label what is going as an Arab spring, also we are afraid of the coming of more authoritarian personalities instead of what was before," Hattit concluded.
