By considering a living community sovereign, nationalism implicitly but drastically reduced the relevance of God even when combined with religion and presented in a religious idiom, it was essentially secular. National consciousness, dramatically different from the fundamentally religious, hierarchical consciousness that it replaced, shapes how we live today.

The great Tunisian poet Abul Qasim Al Shabi has captured poignantly the spirit of Egypt s saga If one day the people want life, then fate will arise night fade away, chains broken That, in essence, is what the young in Egypt have done. Their idiom is current their instruments of change are today s electronic media.