Eman El-Shenawi - Al
Arabiya
Forget your typical
peace sign, two fingers are so last century.
A new victory sign
has been flashed across Egypt to remember the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp,
which was dispersed last week in a deadly military crackdown on demonstrators
in support of former President Mohammed Mursi.
The “four-fingered
salute,” as it has come to be known, is being publicized by
bright
yellow sign sposted on social networking websites by Egyptian masses
wanting to remember Rabaa protesters who camped out for weeks in Cairo.
In Arabic “Rabaa”
means “fourth,” and the hand gesture is being used to display solidarity with
protesters.
‘What is R4bia?’
R4BIA is a symbol
of freedom.
R4BIA is the birth
of a new movement for freedom and justice.
R4BIA is the birth
of a new world.
R4BIA is the
return of Muslims to world stage
R4BIA means
justice, freedom and conscience
R4BIA is the place
where the so-called values of the West collapsed
R4BIA means the
Egyptian heroes who became free by dying
R4BIA is the name
of those who wake all the Islamic world with their death
R4BIA is the place
of people who show the death is a revival
R4BIA is the new
name of our children who will change the world
R4BIA is a new
breath to humanity
R4BIA is justice
for everyone against rotten Western values
R4BIA is
unification of Islamic World
R4BIA is our
daughter Asma