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Why Islamic Extremists Celebrated The Death of Nawal El Saadawi?
Moments after the death of the Egyptian activist: Nawal El Saadawi, thousands of tweets and social media posts from Islamic extremists have blown-up the internet with celebration and hatred speech, here is why.
What happened?
Moments after the death of the Egyptian activist: Nawal El Saadawi, thousands of tweets and social media posts from Islamic extremists have blown-up the internet with celebration and hatred speech.
AlJazeera news (Qatar-owned news agency), has been always a close friend with Muslim brotherhood, so the way AlJazeera dealt with Nawal’s death has to different perspectives.
When trargeting world-wide audience, AlJazeera did not want to sound against a great influential person like Nawal who got tens of Awards from all over the world, so their tweet was:
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian author and women’s rights icon, dies. AlJazeera
When targeting their Arab followers, AlJazeera did not want to make them angry by positively addressing Nawal, the translation of their tweet about her was:
“She attacked religions and demanded the legalization of prostitution and questioned…