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Well, I am just dumfounded!!!

I know for a fact that my grandfather’s great great grandfathers come from this great country, and i am not sure exactly how much further back than that but will make it a point to find out. I don’t need a reference for my own family tree.

I also know many others who are like me, so i am curious to know what “valid references” you have to claim otherwise and what your agenda is from making such a ludicruous claim! second generation my a**!!!!!

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Just to keep it simple, I think you really need to cover more reading on Bahrain’s history before you can throw a claim about Bahrain’s indigenous population.

I’ll save my reservations on our security forces etc for another time.

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Whether you like it or not Mahmood, you portray yourself as a “liberal” fighting for equality and freedom of speech, but your subliminal, if not open, messages are becoming even more aggressive by the day.

That might be true. But that is not due to a change of any of my positions; rather, it is the increasing events befalling this country one after the other which I comment on. None of the events I commented on were of my own doing. If you are looking for me to put my head in the sand and pretend that all is well and dandy, then you’re at the wrong place I’m afraid.

The whole feeling of the country is that it is in dire straights, and the only way to navigate it out of these dire straights is to have a strong and courageous political will to face facts and fix the situation, before it truly explodes.

There are Bahrainis you know that hold different view points than yours even if they aren’t “liberal” to your liking.

Yes of course. I do not have the exclusive right to having an opinion. I welcome differing ones, yours included. But if they don’t make sense, don’t expect me to accept them just to please.

My friend, we are going through – I think – the most dangerous times Bahrain has ever known. Hiding away from facts or shying away from offering solutions is not going to cut it.

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where even Bahrain’s so-called indigenous population are mostly, at best, 2nd generation.

I find this assertion quite ludicrous actually. The indigenous population who do constitute the vast majority of the population here have ancestors going back hundreds if not thousands of years.

As to the police forces, Ali is correct in his assumption, the Minister of Interior himself put the foreign police members to be at 53% if I remember correctly.

So get your facts straight before attacking. It would do your credibility good.

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Our nation comprises of the Arabs, both suni and shia alike, who came from Arabia or Yemen or Iraq, the Persians, also both shia and suni, from Iran, the Baluchis from Oman and Pakistan who, mind you came to the Island before many persians did!!! As for those from the sub-continent, they’ve been here for over a century, since we were under the British rule, they were brought here to run our security forces, centuries ago, so it is only natural that they are more inclined to work in this profession to this date.

In the USA the minority of Hispanics that are FYI now considered a vast “majority” do not speak American, yet contribute to everyday life. Well so do our security forces, like it or not. At least, they don’t sit on their God Damn asses waiting for comfy jobs to drop into their laps when they don’t even put in the effort to even spell their own names in Arabic or English!!!

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In the 60′s and 70′s the US experienced the so called “Sexual Revolution” with the effect of returning Conservative Evangelical Christians to substantial power in the 80′s. The entire cycle was not without social unrest or various government agencies overstepping their boundaries.

Change for good or bad creates uncertainty, uncertainty creates fear, fear makes poor decisions. Unfortunately, it is part of being human.

In the end, the primary function of Government is to maintain peace and prosperity among its citizens, the primary function of Democracy is to provide a balancing mechanism between those who advocate change and those who advocate leaving things as they are.

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Jordan & Maria Seidel said:
think it would be a good idea to have the members of police families participate in the protests…do you really think they would all get arrested?

A good idea indeed except that the majority of the police force in Bahrain, and unlike any other county in the world, are foreigners!.. mercenaries who cannot even speak the country’s language..!!

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