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In her speech in Ramadan evening in Istanbul, Karman: Revolutions against the Arab Spring will fail
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman said Saturday that “the battle of anti-Arab revolutions, in which Gulf money, Western collusion and local gangs are united, will fail.”
In her speech during a Ramadan Iftar and evening organized by the Tawakkul Karman Foundation (non-governmental) and the Belqis TV channel in Istanbul, Turkey, Karman said: "When the Arab Spring triumphs, everything will return to its respectable image, citizenship will be embodied in reality."
She said: "Religion will not be part of a political game, what is haram yesterday is halal today, what is halal yesterday is haram today, without convincing evidence, and art will reflect the people, their aspirations, their failures and their dreams."
The Moroccan singer, Rashid Ghoulam, song in this evening, which was held under the title "Spirit and Art .. Bilateral Peace", with participation of dozens of singers, rights activists, journalists and members of the Yemeni community.
She added: "Art gives us the ability to reveal our feelings and our attitudes and emotions more effective way hardcopy, so totalitarian regimes sought through policies based on obscurantism and intimidation to hit the true meaning of art, and turn it into a boring process of distraction and licenses."
The agency: "In the Arab world, repressive regimes do not flinch from targeting any artist seeks to reflect reality without falsification, and put obstacles in front of any work of art helps to raise emotions and attitudes, fear of revolution and change."
She stressed that "bad art is a mirror of the system bad, good art does not live long, only under a political system that respects human rights and freedoms and the right of everyone to express themselves and their feelings, away from coercion."
"The Arab region is going through a very sensitive phase. Since the Arab Spring revolutions eight years ago, events have been going on and on."
"While the youth of the Arab Spring were expressing the importance of turning their countries into genuine democratic states, there were states and dictatorships operating in secret and in public to turn the clock back."
She continued: "And scenes of destruction and destruction and tyranny, which spread in Yemen, Syria, Libya and Egypt, but the product of the policies of those regimes that are hostile to democracy."
"The rulers of our Arab homeland have bet on the idea of sabotaging everything so that people do not think of democracy again," she said.
"The moment they thought they had taken control of everything, the strike came from Algeria and Sudan, and now they are trying to get into these two countries and turn their spring into a fall."
Popular protests ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on April 11 and Algerian Abdelaziz Bouteflika on the second of the month.
"Countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE fear the revolution, even in Mozambique or a country in South America," she said.
She stressed that "the Arabs under elected governments are able to develop their countries, and to preserve their wealth, and to defend their security and their sanctities, and to benefit from the minds of their children reformers and innovators, for the well-being and the good of the world."