Arab's extinction

Yesterday, the channel, AL ARBIA, made an interview with ADONIS, a poet and thinker, and he said in that interview that the arabs are facing gradual extinction, like the babylonians, and old egyptians, and old greeks, because they are not participating in the modern world and in creation.... and because their culture is a culture of being meek, and against raising questions and against freedom....
I hope he is wrong....