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Sentimental moments at the ballot box: Thomas Friedman warms his heart in Brummana, Lebanon

By Guest Post • Jun 21st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Religion, Resistance

WRITTEN BY BELEN FERNANDEZ 
In a June 16 Op-Ed column in the New York Times entitled “The Virtual Mosque,” Thomas Friedman declares that events in Iran have raised “three intriguing questions” for him:
“Is Facebook to Iran’s Moderate Revolution what the mosque was to Iran’s Islamic Revolution? Is Twitter to Iranian moderates what muezzins were to Iranian [...]