The Arbaeen Walk is a glorious, profound, and meaningful movement and declaration of presence, the truth of which is incomprehensible in any system of material thought. A large number of people with demographic, national, racial, and even religious diversity, every year more than the previous year, walk a long way and gather to pay their respects to Imam Hussein (AS).
The Arbaeen March is not a new phenomenon, but its manifestation has been unprecedented in quality, glory, and authority today. According to official statistics, more than 20 million pilgrims from different countries of the world, including Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Bahrain, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan, India, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc., participate in Arbaeen march annually. The Western media, which reacts to the smallest events and incidents in all parts of the world and deals with the events of Islamic countries and the Islamic world with its special approaches and orientations, but now it is surprising why these colorful media with the support of Enormous and unlimited investment, boycotting the Arbaeen march?
Today, the glorious Arbaeen March has become a powerful medium in conveying the message of Islam, far from the distortions of these groups, and thwarts all Western media efforts to present a false image of Islam.
The Western media empire is undoubtedly based on a purposeful and designed strategy. We have not forgotten the dual attitude of the Western media towards the terrorist incidents in Europe and the Middle East, how he put the victims of these incidents in separate cupboards and considered mourning and lamentation only worthy of the victims of the terrorist incidents in Europe. There is no doubt that in the face of the Arbaeen march, the same policy has been fraudulently designed and dictated.
While dozens of headlines are reported daily through various Western media focusing on events in the Middle East and focusing on the activities, actions, conquests, and crimes of ISIS and Takfiri groups, in recent years news of an amazing epic Arbaeen is not in these media.
Looking at the performance of these media, we see that many of them have completely censored this march and do not mention it at all. Another group of media outlets has covered parts of this huge event and to some extent are trying to address this issue from a public perspective and make it look like a small religious event.
But there are also a few media outlets that document and look at the Arbaeen March from a professional point of view. This small number of people of different nationalities from five continents, as well as people of different religions and denominations, from Muslims and Christians to Shiites and Sunnis, find it very attractive and believe that this phenomenon does not exist anywhere in the world.
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One of these people is “Maria Hashemi”, a media activist from the United States, who says: “I am an American media activist and I have come to see and be informed about this great march and its human and spiritual dimensions.”
“We want to be part of this experience to understand the facts,” said American artist Anbarak Muhammad. The values of Imam Hussein (AS) call for justice and peace, and we must use them to confront the axis of evil that still exists.
Of course, in recent days, some of the world’s media reacted to the march, for example, one of the Chinese media points to the inability of the Western media to censor Arbaeen and says: The presence of 20 million people in the Arbaeen walk was so loud that the Western and Arab media could not ignore the huge number of lovers of Imam Hussein (AS).
The American “Huffington Post” recently wrote about the Arbaeen Hosseini (AS) walk: If you want to know the true Islam, go to the Arbaeen shrine, because it is a ceremony of values and patterns. The number of pilgrims to this gathering is five times more than the great and important Hindu “Kumbe Mela” ceremony, which is held every three years. In the earthquake in Haiti, the US Department of Defense provided only four million meals, and in Arbaeen, more than two hundred million meals are prepared, and all of them have been taken over by donors.
However, at the same time as the Arbaeen March, many Western media outlets refused to cover the big event, trying to downplay it by engaging in marginal issues in the region. Despite claiming to be neutral on various issues, these media outlets tried to cover marginal and critical issues as much as possible and did not cover the great event of the Arbaeen March.
As a final point, we must add that despite all the efforts of the Western media, the issue of Arbaeen is very popular on social networks, which are the most powerful media in the world today, and Twitter, Instagram, and Telegram are news sites.
Surveys show that in the three social networks Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram, more than 600,000 posts with Arbaeen content have been published. According to this, the users of the Telegram social network have published 300,000 posts on the subject of Arbaeen, of which the number of visits has been one billion, and the number of channels that have published the content of Arbaeen has been announced as 34,000 channels. Meanwhile, 213,000 posts with hashtags related to Arbaeen have been published on the Twitter social network, which has nearly 200,000 likes and 51,000 users have published this content. On the other hand, 36,000 users on the social network Instagram have published 77,000 posts related to Arbaeen, which has generated a total of 65 million likes.
