Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world

SUMMARY:

In this video, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, tells us about the recent incidents, which are occurred in Arab world. He mentions that as a reporter, he covered different wars like Afghanistan, Iraq, and so on. He wrote about destruction, bloodshed, and violence, which happened during those wars.

However, Arab world is very traditional and in some countries, there are dictators and kings who rule over these countries. Young people of Tunisia revolted against the government and they stepped out their homes and raised the voice against the unsatisfied system and government and they wanted change. Government tried to stop this revolt, but became unsuccessful.  As a result, Tunisian government collapsed. After that, this happened in Egypt, then in Libya, and in Yemen. So, this is a moment when youngsters of Arab world raise their voice against unsatisfied system and government. They adopt universal values, ideology, tolerance, and many other things from the world to get freedom from the unsatisfied system and government.

Moreover, according to the speaker, this is the time to change our attitude towards the Arab world that they believe in freedom, friendship, stability, tolerance, and other universal values, not in the violence and terrorism. (Word count:200)

RESPONSE:

I agree with speaker’s point of view, that we should change our attitude towards the Arab world because in my point of view, youngsters of the Arab world are wiser and understand the universal values. They want to live in peaceful atmosphere with freedom and they want the system, which can fulfill their needs. Now, it is time to look another side of the coin and to face the truth that they also believe in love and friendship. I wish that India too needs this kind of revolt because even though we have democracy, but the system is very corrupt, from top to bottom, everywhere is corruption. There are many other problems like unemployment, illiteracy, health problems, and so on. Maximum Indian leaders, it does not matter that they belong to which political party, are corrupted. They do scandals in every department of the government. Common people are unsatisfied with the government even though they chose them by themselves. In election political parties misuse the money and convince the illiterate votes and on the basis of vote counts, the candidates win.  Educated and unsatisfied voters cannot vote in the election, that’s why, I think this kind of revolt, India needs.(Word count:200)