“This standing up, this uprising is broader than just Arabs for example and I think we"re just at the very beginning of it,” said Franklin Lamb in a Friday interview.

The American lawyer said he thought “the Islamic Awakening is so broad and so deep that it is influencing the American public and the world generally,” and the West should "be encouraged" by the Islamic Awakening and "respond" to it.

Lamb further said that the West is going to learn a lot from the uprisings in Islamic countries, mentioning that they will "learn a lot about Islam" and "respect it increasingly."

Since January, revolutions have swept through the Middle East and North Africa unseating dictators such as the Tunisian Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Egyptian Hosni Mubarak, and the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi.

Despite violent crackdowns, countries such as Yemen and Bahrain are also currently engaged in massive near-daily demonstrations against their despotic US-backed rulers.

Protests have also spread to the US and Europe, where demonstrators are braving police brutality to participate in rallies against capitalism, corporatism, and austerity cuts.

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