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“Fear Sells, Fear Works, Fear Is a Winner, But Has No Future!”, Egyptian Political Satirist Bassem Youssef

Thursday, July 3, 2014 11:14

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Bonn, 3 July 2014 — Speaking in Bonn, Germany, Egyptian political satirist Bassem Youssef discusses the unsustainability of fear, saying “Satire was our weapon to dissect through the lies and rhetoric that were used to control the people.”*

Bassem Youssef (right). Photo: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum

Fearing for his own safety, political satirist Bassem Youssef chose to cancel his hugely popular weekly talk show, “Al Bernameg.” Speaking to a full house at the World Conference Center in Bonn on the occasion of the 2014 Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, he named fear to be the key reason behind his decision.

“Fear sells, fear intimidates, fear makes humans go against their best judgment,” commented Youssef, whose program had also been broadcast on Deutsche Welle’s Arabic television channel.

Youssef criticized those who hide behind religion, using fear to manipulate the masses. He said that fear also paved the way toward fascism, and 60 years later, these techniques are still valid.

“Fear sells, fear works, fear is a winner. Satire and comedy might be one of the very few antidotes against fear,” said Youssef during his speech at the media congress.

For three days [30 June-2 July 2014], experts and guests from approximately 100 countries are meeting to discuss and analyze topics related to the conference theme, “From Information to Participation – Challenges for the Media.

“Looking optimistically to the future, Youssef says that today’s world is full of young people who will not accept outdated mechanisms of power.

“The propaganda that worked for their parents’ generation won’t be able to control them anymore … Fear is unsustainable, it cannot build nations, it only destroys.”Directly addressing his adversaries, Youssef concluded by saying, “in the books of history you will lose and in the hearts of the young, you have already lost.”

2,300 guests from 120 countries

2,300 visitors from 120 countries met at the Global Media Forum to discuss issues surrounding the topic of this year’s conference, “From Information to Participation– Challenges for the Media.”For more information about the conference, go to www.dw-gmf.de.

Photographs from all the events will be posted continuously at flickr.com/deutschewelle/collections. Alternatively, photos are available upon request from Lisa Flanakin, Tel. +49 173 850 7281
To watch the live stream of selected events, go to www.dw.de/media-center/live-tv/s-100825/channel/9798
Follow the Global Media Forum on a variety of social media networks:
Twitter.com/dw_gmf (English); twitter.com/deutschewelle (German)
Twitter hashtags:#dw_gmf and#be_part
facebook.com/dw.gmf (English) and facebook.com/dw.deutschewelle (German)
YouTube.com/GMFconference
Audio recordings of the events will be made available continuously on soundcloud.com/dwgmf. You can download the files in MP3 format.

International partners and co-hosts DW’s national and international partners for the 2014 Global Media Forum include, among others, Amnesty International, Deutsche Telekom, the Grimme-Institut, NATO, the United Nations, the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications and Voices of Africa.

The conference is co-hosted by the Foundation for International Dialogue of the Sparkasse Savings Bank in Bonn. Support is also kindly provided by Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the City of Bonn.

*Source: 2014 Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. Author Susanne Nickel / wr. Editor Deborah Friedman. Go to Original.

2014 Human Wrongs Watch

Filed under: Middle East, The Peoples

Source: http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2014/07/03/25608/

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