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Arab Spring - One Year Later

Violence has flared up  again due to an amateurish movie, which portrays the prophet as a fraud, a womanizer and a child molester. The violence has let to the death of at least 30 people in seven countries, including the American ambassador to Libya. In Kabul, eight South Africans were killed when an explosives-laden car, steered by a 22-year-old woman, ploughed into the side of their minibus. The explosion sent the car hurtling almost 50m before it came to a stop – a smouldering and gutted wreck. Zapiro's cartoon shows how the Arab spring initially a  movement where the pious and the secular, the liberals and the conservatives, the Facebook generation and the factory workers all joined together to achieve democracy and freedom of speech. One year later, there is a violent anti-free speech reaction  and one can question the possibilty of marrying Islamic ideals with democratic practices

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