Arabs urged to use social media to fight extremism
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 13, 2013 20:49
Arab interior ministers were advised to confront the spread of extremism through social media networks with their own cyber knowhow, as they gathered for a security meeting in Riyadh on Wednesday.
Mohammed Kuman, head of the council of Arab interior ministers, told the meeting that “extremist thought… on social networks has resulted in a major increase in terrorist acts, political assassinations and sectarian conflicts.”
“As it has become impossible to control the content of social networks, it is important to produce counter-speech,” said Kuman.
“Ideas can only be fought by ideas,” the Saudi official said in an opening speech at the Riyadh meeting.
Al-Qaeda and its regional offshoots often use jihadist Internet forums to post statements claiming responsibility for terror attacks, and to communicate with followers.
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