Arab Spring mass demonstrations falsified Western claims that Arabs reject democracy

Evidence

The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain in 2011, referred to as the Arab Spring, proved that Arabs want democracy. These mass demonstrations demanding democracy posed a clear challenge to widespread assumptions in the West that “they” are against democracy and freedom and “hate us for our freedom.” — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1389

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1389
• XREF: connects to: Post-Uprisings Western intervention aimed to replace pan-Arab ideology with neoliberal liberal democracy. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 54; Orientalist denial of Arab democratic capacity persisted through and beyond the 2011 Arab Spring — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 384