Businessinsider.com: Mujtahidd, an anonymous Twitter user from Saudi Arabia, has been called the “gutter of the press.” A Saudi prince called him a “slanderer” and a “hired tool.” Some say the whistle-blower, who is now a household name among Saudis who use social media, is the Julian Assange of of the nation.
Behind the screams of the protest from Tahrir square and the abhorring images depicting Syria’s civil war, Saudi Arabia may have begun a quieter revolution of their own; Twitter has given Saudis their first legitimate outlet for dissent and criticism against the ruling regime, and Mujtahidd — the alias means ‘studious’ in Arabic — has emerged as the symbolic leader of the movement.
Categories: Asia, Saudi Arabia