Facebook Diversion To Free-for-all Extremism

A amicable media diversion with Arab super heroes at its heart has been launched on Facebook.

The human at the back the project, Suleiman Bakhit, hopes that Happy Oasis can emanate certain purpose models for young kids who might instead be enticed by nonconformist views.

The diversion launched this week and has already captivated 50,000 followers.

Newly allocated TED associate Mr Bakhit spoke about his plan at the TEDGlobal discussion in Edinburgh.

Mr Bakhit, who comes from Jordan, was a tyro at the US University of Minnesota when the 9/11 attacks took place. Shortly thereafter he was pounded by 4 group since he was an Arab.

Instead of feeling bitter, Mr Bakhit motionless to rivet in an preparation campaign.

"I realised that you free-for-all extremism by starting with the young. The summary was elementary - 'We are not all terrorists'", he told the BBC.

Armed with a not-so-magic carpet, he began revelation Aladdin-style stories in local schools.

"One day a youngster asked me if there was an Arab superman and we realised that there wasn't," he said.

So began his comic-book plan that directed to emanate a operation of certain Arab role-models, inclusive a womanlike James Bond and a Jordanian special representative who fights extremists.

In Jordan, Mr Bakhit has sole 300,000 copies of his comics and came to realize that there was a marketplace for a web-based version.

"Print media is failing but there are 30 million Arabs on Facebook so we think about creation amicable games with the same message," he said.

Mr Bakhit longed for to ensure that his characters connected to the young kids he was aiming to reach.

"I took a peer-to-peer approach, enchanting kids to obtain their ideas," he said.

He was uncertain about either to add a disposition ready to go in a burka until he showed the animated disposition to a concentration group.

"They desired the idea so she was in," he said.

The initial diversion featured special representative Element O and whilst it was, in Mr Bakhit's difference "not really good", it did uncover him the promising of such a project.

"Fans were deliberating the games in the forums and arguing about politics. we went on as Element O and the arguments right away stopped," he said.

Mr Bakhit mentioned he now hopes to take his comic book model to Pakistan, where extremism is a flourishing problem.