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Social Network Users alarm Religious Scholars and Afghan Politicians

Former Afghan President, and current Chairperson of Afghan Peace and Reconciliation Council, Mr. Burhanudin Rabani has warned Government and Council of Religious Scholars on taking fundamental steps to tackle the current instabilities and misleading of governmental affairs otherwise, what he believed "they would sooner be replaced by Facebookers and internet users". His remarks come following to regime change in Egypt where he received his education and was influenced by Al-Ikhwān or Muslim Brotherhood ideology . He ,specifically, referred to the role of young people who have successfully managed to mobilize themselves as resistance forces against government through utilizing different social networks, such as Facebook and twitters. Afghanistan, a country where only 3 .4% (one million) of its population have access to internet with total 52,890 Facbook users concerns politicians about any probable resistance same as the one that brought Mubarak's 30