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Queen Rania of
Jordan condemned in totality ‘what ISIS is doing to the Arab world and
all of us’, she made this remark while
addressing the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
Queen Rania told
the Abu Dhabi Media Summit that 'a minority of irreligious extremists is using
social media to rewrite our narrative and hijack our identity'. In anger, the monarch
said that the images that ISIS promote on social media should make every Arab
'seethe' and warned moderates who are silent on the issue are complicit in
ISIS' success.
Referring specifically to the videos of
beheadings, the Queen said: 'These images don't represent me anymore than they
represent you. 'They’re alien
and abhorrent to the vast majority of Arabs – Muslims and Christians. And they
should make every Arab across this region seethe.
'Because they're an attack on our values as a people and
on our collective story. This is their version of the Arab world’s story, their
plot, their narrative, their heroes, and the rest of the world is listening and
watching.'
'We must create a new narrative and broadcast it to the
world. Because if we don’t decide what our identity is and what our legacy will
be, the extremists will do it for us.'
Queen Rania urged people in the region to post their own
positive 'profile picture of our Arab world' on social media sites.
Queen Rania concluded: ‘We either develop our region, or
we let others dismantle it – find solutions to the challenges, or watch the
challenges avalanche; harness the tools to drive the Arab world forward in the
21st century, or let others use those tools to drag us back to the Dark Ages.’
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