{"id":6655,"date":"2013-07-08T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:30:22","slug":"ribal-al-assad-statement-on-the-recent-events-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/ribal-al-assad-statement-on-the-recent-events-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribal Al-Assad; statement on the recent events in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks have obviously been difficult for Egypt, however I am pleased to see the emergence of a new forward thinking discourse in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people of Egypt have displayed a tremendous amount of courage, standing up not once but twice in the face of tyranny, against dictatorship and now theocracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have said no to extremism and sectarianism in a peaceful and forthright matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is testament to the resolve of the Egyptian people, they have firmly rejected extremist ideologies and, like the vast majority of the Middle East, long for a true and genuine democracy which represents their interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I have said many times before, there is absolutely no place for dictatorship or religious extremism in the world; at this time we must all unite with the people of the Middle East and stand together with them against Islamic fundamentalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that other countries in the Arab world will now follow Egypt\u2019s example and turn the devastating \u201cArab Spring\u201d into a beautiful \u201cArab Summer\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks have obviously been difficult for Egypt, however I am pleased to see the emergence of a new forward thinking discourse in the country. The people of Egypt have displayed a tremendous amount of courage, standing up not once but twice in the face of tyranny, against dictatorship and now theocracy. [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}