Sawab warned of the impact of the excessive use of mobile phones and electronic boards in children, where 46% of respondents in a poll conducted by the Center recently, on his account on the social networking site «Twitter», that these devices lose children social skills, 28% said that they have ethical risks, while 20% stressed that they have health risks, and 6% of respondents felt that these devices have other effects.
Participants in the survey reviewed a number of effects that they felt affect children, against the backdrop of excessive use of electronic devices, including the emergence of special cases of «autism», delayed speech, and lack of attention.
The participant Abdulaziz Al-Ahmadi said that the excessive use of these devices has moral and health risks, the loss of social skills in children, as well as isolation from the real environment and natural communication and loss of practice of real childhood, a case of «acquired autism».
The participant Jaber that there are behavioral effects gained by children, as a result of excessive use of these devices, including the acquisition of aggression, with those around them, and away from moral values and principles, and uttering immoral words.
Abu Yousef, Abu Rashed, Basma Al-Hadi, and others agreed with the social, health and ethical risks caused by these devices to children.
Sawab Center, the UAE-US joint initiative to combat terrorist propaganda and ideas on the Internet and promote positive anti-extremist alternatives, warned in a tweet on Twitter that modern electronic gaming technologies are being taken by terrorist groups such as ISIS. Introduction to child recruitment.
He pointed to the danger of the lack of censorship for electronic games, adding that «electronic games constitute a time bomb, which crushes the basic values and principles, such as respect, patience, and abundant scenes of murder and profanity, and includes among its players terrorist groups, exploiting the fragile minds to promote violent extremist ideology Under the banner of entertainment ».
He pointed out that the methods of propaganda «Daesh», from videos with advanced technologies, to intensive campaigns through social media, targeting the minds of young people to throw them in the clutches of terrorism and extremist ideology.
The Center called on parents to share their children's hobbies, and not let them spend most of their free time on the Internet, and browse suspicious sites, noting that children are easier prey to extremist groups.
Harness the means of communication to correct ideas
The Sawab Center harnesses online media and social media to correct misconceptions, put them in perspective, and allow more room to hear moderate voices, often lost amid the noise of misconceptions promoted by extremists.
By communicating with the general public via the Internet, the center responds to countering and refuting false allegations and false religious interpretations by extremists, and it also communicates with online communities, which are often prey to proponents of this ideology.
The Center works with the governments of the region and the world, including those of 63 countries participating in the International Coalition Against Extremism, and works with the general public, institutions, companies and youth to refute hatred and intolerance, and to promote and disseminate the true values of Islam, based on moderation. It calls for tolerance and openness.