Dating Sites Are the New Hotspot for Libyan Protest

On a Muslim date land site call Mawada , there ’s a military man with a profile style “ Where Is Miriam ? ” He will frequently receive content from other muslim women which read something along the air of “ may your sidereal day be fill up with Jasmine . ” He ’s also quite popular with the ladies , amassing over 171,000 admirers . But neither “ Where Is Miriam , ” nor his admirer are interested in making love . They ’re interested in toppling the Libyan regime led by Muammar Gaddafi .

According to ABC News , the dating internet site had been used over the past couple of hebdomad as a secret emplacement to exchange information and words of boost regarding the citizen revolt in Libya . Many of the 171,000 protagonist who follow “ Where Is Miriam ? ” ( aka Libyan confrontation leader Omar Shibliy Mahmoudi ) on Mawada are n’t even women . But because the dating situation forbids contact between men , male dissidents had to forge distaff identities such as “ Girl of the Desert ” and “ Sweet Butterfly . ”

Messages posted to Mahmoudi ’s page , like the one above , were fundamentally written in codification to further hide their natural action ( the Jasmine mention is refer to the Jasmine revolution . ) When referring to liberty , users would often expend the word love , and when they wanted to come across up , they would give tongue to a desire to call one another . Using these method acting , they were not only capable to contact Mahmoudi , but each other as well , help to goad on the Libyan rising . [ ABC NewsviaDiscover ]

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