In the past two decades in the Arab world, there was no much room for the progressivists to share their position on the public discourse. Layers of conservative thought took hold of the general atmosphere. From that position, even those who present today with "open-minded" thought were raised in a conservative family, or within a conservative society, that was guided by values that received consensus from society. These values have long been held dear by people and societal reward was bestowed upon those that would follow them.
For many youth today, yesterday's values are looked at as shackles that were nothing more than limitations on freedom in an unjustifiable way. Some mavericks found themselves fully rebelling against most values while others chose to make some adjustments on how to lead their lives in accordance with the basic values, yet allowing for some personal values to form themselves.
Nowadays, a new trend of "informed" conservatives are gaining ground mostly on the virtual atmosphere. Youth who are updated to scientific thought, who are aware of how the western world is living, and also are entertained by western culture, yet they do find their traditional values to be of better functionality than the foreign values of excessive freedom. Many being bilinguals (or even polyglots), they experience first-hand notions presented by the intellectual popular conservatives from the west. People like Dennis Prague, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro all start to feel so brilliant in what they put forward. These speakers usually frame their arguments from a moral perspective, which taps into the basis of Arabic mindset that for a very long time has felt that "yet we are not scientifically advanced, but we are better morally". This capacity of a clear moralistic communication renders itself attractive not only to Arabs, but also biconceptuals in the US (as George Lakoff explains).
This gives agency to the listener, making him feel effective and useful; it allows one to have a personal authority of weighing things as morally right or wrong and thus acting upon those "highly regarded" values.
