What do you think about Rahaf Mohammed and her story?
"Don’t let anyone break your wings, you’re free. fight and get your RIGHTS!" - Rahaf Mohammed.
Immediately after arriving in Bangkok, on the evening of Saturday, 5 January, Rahaf sent out a series of tweets pleading for help. Within a short period of time, she was able to muster an army of faithful supporters on twitter with the voluntary assitance of an Egyptian-American activist, Mona Eltahawy, who translated and shared her posts with hundreds of thousands of her own followers. Since then Rahaf was able to get 167k twitter followers in a span of less than 7 days, which speaks of the volume of support she garnered.
Hey.. I’m happy ❤️🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/FJJvz8Kzu0
— Rahaf Mohammed رهف محمد (@rahaf84427714) January 9, 2019
Mona Eltahawy had this to say about the episode, “Rahaf al-Qunun, mark my words, is going to start a revolution in Saudi Arabia. Go on social media now & watch accounts of so many young Saudis saying,“Rahaf, you’ve shown us, that we can do this! Rahaf, you have shown us, that we deserve to be free” Mona's tweet.
What do you think about Rahaf and her story so far?
Pick your choice:
- (1) Rahaf has kindled the fire of revolution in Saudi Arabia for the emancipation of women.
- (2) Rahaf is very bold and mature and deserve to be praised for her actions.
- (3) Rahaf is very silly and immature and deserve to be chastised for her actions.
- (4) Rahaf has set an example for the Muslim women around the world to emulate her and speak up for women's rights.
- (5) Some of the above, namely ..........
- (6) Others (Please comment)
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Voted for 4. Rahaf has set an example for the Muslim women around the world to emulate her and speak up for women's rights..
Thanks for your vote, @abbak7. This is not the first Saudi Arabian woman to have escaped the clutches of her family and the Saudi regime. Eight months ago, Salwa, 24, with her sister, 19, ran away from her family and sought asylum in Canada also. Here is their story: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-46818237
Voted for 3. Rahaf is very silly and immature and deserve to be chastised for her actions..
Thanks for the vote, @syyed. Stay blessed.
Voted for 4. Rahaf has set an example for the Muslim women around the world to emulate her and speak up for women's rights..
Thanks for voting @deathcross. Stay blessed.
Voted for 4. Rahaf has set an example for the Muslim women around the world to emulate her and speak up for women's rights..
Thanks for the vote, @hafizullah. Blessings.
Voted for 5. Some of the above, namely ...........
1, 2 and 4
Thanks for voting, @akomoajong. It will be interesting to see Saudi women getting their taste of freedom as it will likely impact many other Islamic countries, which tend to follow the foot steps of Saudi culture.
Voted for 4. Rahaf has set an example for the Muslim women around the world to emulate her and speak up for women's rights..
Thanks for voting, @rem-steem. Stay blessed.
Voted for 6. Others (Please comment).
I love anybody who is raising voice for freedom. I didn't know about the person until I came across this poll. Twitter will never make much of social change. We need real actions. Governments pulling out support for these countries would be something real. I'm happy for her freedom. But she won't change much.
@vimukthi, every time history is made, we usually forget that behind that big moment there were thousands of ordinary citizens whose courage set the path for the activists to work their cause so that justice prevailed eventually.
Yes, history is twigged and bent by those in power and with money. But when ordinary people are pushed to a corner, history will be bent by these ordinary people with neither power nor money - hapless and helpless ordinary citizens, like Rahaf, who believe in a cause and muster others to their side, at great risk to themselves, all because they believe in a noble cause.
Although history is chronicled by big moments, it is actually made everyday by these ordinary people behind the scenes. The Arab Spring and the collapse of communism, both of which happened all of a sudden surprising everyone, are big moments in history, but would not have happened without the steady and dedicated participation of the ordinary people, who were pushed to a corner.
Thanks for the vote, @vimukthi. Stay blessed.
I agree that it was little things that led to massive historical events. But modern days are plagued with what Eli Roth called slacktivism. That's what I'm skeptical about. Lot's of people would show support of Twitter. But how many would try to make real change. Put pressure on politicians to cut ties with Saudi and stop protecting them. It's a long term thing. But that's the effective solution.
But most people aren't willing to face few gas shortages and temporary economic hit. At best most would stop at a protest. Just think about Kony 2012. Most of the money actually got wasted on other BS.
Fight against Saudi is n economic war. Their power is in oil. We have to take this power from them to make their disgusting social structure break apart.
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Voted for 5. Some of the above, namely ...........
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