Middle East and N. Africa Media and Politics: Is Egypt Responsible for Bahrain?: "Protesters stormed the streets of Manama, Bahrain yesterday, proving that the political rebellion in Egypt might only be the beginning of a..."
Tunisia was the first Middle Eastern country that started the snowball effect of protests. Even if is likely that some governmental powers of middle east area were about to collapse because of internal pressions, I agree that successful protests in other countries give trust and courage to all the dissatisfied populations of the area.
Question: Why were you thinking that Egypt could be in the process of becoming a terror-influenced society?
I think that chaos is the perfect environment where terror can rise and manipulate the lack of social justice to justify hate and violence. I personally didn't see chaos in Tunisia and Egypt events, on the contrary I have seen the rising awareness of populations about their civil rights. VOICE.
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You make a good point about these movements becoming a potential "breeding ground" for terrorist ideologies. They tend to come out of extreme anger and in countries that have less stability and have started protesting like Tunisia and Egypt before them (i.e Libya, Bahrain, etc...) the momentum of these movements could potentially be hijacked by extremists. I think Libya might be most privy to see the emergence of terrorists because the government has been the most brutal and violent in trying to put down the protests. Gadhafi just today has ordered his Air force and Navy to actually bomb the protestors and there are rumors that soldiers who refuse will be executed. Gadhafi's son made a speech last night saying they would fight to the end "To the last man, to the last woman, to the last bullet". Scary stuff.
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