I’m back!
Hello my friends! I missed you!
I can’t thank you enough for your generous support over the last couple of days. They have been very difficult for my family and friends. I’m glad to say that I have been handled well enough while incarcerated. The authorities launched an investigation and I answered and defended myself as best I could. I’m happy to relate that they didn’t find anything indictable so they released me. I can’t thank them enough for this.
I must say that the allegations which appeared on Facebook and propagated unnecessarily and unfairly in itechbahrain complicated the situation appreciably. Although I did try to get itechbahrain and the Facebook pages to see their error, they insisted on spreading their malicious and completely unsubstantiated rumours, they were adamant in their beliefs. These might very well have resulted in the destruction of not just my own personal life, but those of my dependents, my family members, my staff and business. I’m glad their efforts have miserably failed.
I do hope; however, that they see the error of their ways now. I don’t want anything from these people, what I do want is what’s good for my country. As such, I offer them peace and ask them to please think before they spread dangerous information. The least they can do, is give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and double check their information before they publish it, especially when that information can have such a devastating effect as this has had.
What this country needs right now is the start of a much needed healing process. I promise you that this process of healing will continue to be my primary concern and I shall continue to contribute to it in any way that I can.
I also hope that as now the premise for my detention has been determined to be false; the responsible authorities will choose to dismiss any investigations, if any, in relation to anyone wrongfully mentioned in those despicable pictures.
Thank you all for your tremendous support. I am truly humbled by the outpouring of love and support I have seen. I’m still shell-shocked. My family is just about bruised and battered, but our own healing has already started very much aided but your love.
Stay safe my friends. We have a lot of work to do. Bahrain deserves all of our concerted efforts to achieve a better future for all.
Glad to see you’re back home Mahmood.
7amdilla 3ala salmtik, glad to hear your fine and safe. Information has created havoc, I agree with you there.
الحمدلله على السلامه
and welcome back..
حمدا ً لله على السلامة
Welcome back and thank you for being you!
Welcome back. At least you should benefit now from the so-called Barbara Streisand effect (whereby attempts to stop the spread of information actually leads to more people seeing it than would have been the case in the first place!).
Yuppeeeeeeeee!!!!
Glad you’re back home, Mahmood.
are you going ahead with legal action against the people behind the picture and itechBahrain?
I don’t recommend that
Good to hear you’re safe!!
Welcome back. Very pleased you are safe & well. Your detention was reported internationally so it has backfired on those responsible.
So glad you’re back. We missed you too
Welcome back.
I know this might come off as a bit crass, but, did you get a meal from Jasmi’s?
Hey, someone had to ask that…eventually.
7amdilla 3ala salamtik Mahmood- so relieved you’re ok!
الحمدلله على سلامتك
I’m glad you’re back safe and sound, and the country is in dire need of healing and inshalla we can do that.
Good to have you back. I hope you and your family come out stronger inshalla.
Love and peace.
glad to see you back, I’m sure that this won’t effect your efforts to continue with your mission
I had no idea! Horrible! Glad you’re home, safe, and with your family!
It’s just wonderful to have you back Mahmood.
Welcome back… God bless u all
7amdAllah 3al salama Mahmood…glad to c u back!
Hey Mahmood. Delighted you are free and fit to blog again. Curious to know how you can protect yourself from future libel, if the legal route is not recommended. Will the police reprimand those responsible or am I completely naive?
Welcome back Mahmood, so glad, see you soon!
ألف ألف حمداً لله على سلامتك .. فرحنا جداً بعودتك سالماً
Welcome home Mahmood
It is a relief to hear that you are out and OK.
!!!
welcome back…!
Thanks be to God! Love to your family.
Welcome back bro .Alf 7amdella 3al salama..c u soon
So good to hear the news that you are back home safe and sound. Take good care of yourself and your wonderful family, Kate, Tony, Alastair and Beth.
الحمد لله علي السلامه محمود
Mahmood – I know we did not agree in the past. But your detention is unacceptable. I am glad it is now over, and I continue to look forward to an honourable debate. Welcome back sir! Are you able to share with us exact details of the experience?
Now THIS is a fine example of what I’ve been told about the beauty of the people of Bahrain and has been so hard to find these last few weeks!
Thank you for writing such kind words, Salman.
Glad you are out unharmed and back with your family.
I hope this will not deter you though from carrying on the mission for a better Bahrain.
Your are blessed to have an international follwing.. so please use it as you have always done.. there are more than 300 political prisoners now in bahrain that I hope will get the same attention as you did and get their freedom to go back to their families as soon as possible.
I cannot hid my worry and fear that the government is putting pressure on you and other bloggers to be silent on what is going on in bahrain.
anyhow…welcome back!
I just read about it on http://mondoweiss.net/ and is great to hear everything is ok. I have been reading your site for a long time and have always enjoyed your moderate viewpoint. Plus, the nature pictures are very good.
Hoobloodyrah!! What great news. Enjoy being back with your family.
I am glad that you are back home with your family. Please accept my sincere wishes on your safety. I like to say many things but I am sure what you feel is what we are all feeling. You are Bahrains son, our son, our brother no matter if we differ in opinion. May Allah protect you and your family and all people of dignity.
Welcome back Mahmood,
Lets hope that the authorities check and double check their information before apprehending anyone so there is no face water to be saved afterwards.
I also think the legal action will be very lengthy and costly and will not be effective, what would be more effective is the exposure of the culprits, which happened already.
Mahmood,
Thank God you are okay. How traumatic. I hope your wife and family are all okay and able to relax now. Remember: God knows everything. The truth always comes out and good will overcome! Keep up the good work, friend!
It’s delightful to have you back with us again, dear sir.
Who’d have thought that your simple message of unity, democracy and justice would gather such loud and vociferous support all around the world while you were being entertained?
You know, I suspect you may be on to something…
Bless you for your thanks to your investigators and your hope for reconciliation with your accusers.
You are an example to us all.
I am so relieved that you are home safe amd sound! All the best wishes to you and your family.
Welcome home, Mahmood!~
Welcome back ! You were lucky to have all this support but I am afraid that other bloggers will be inside for months.
Very glad to see you released. I admire your voice reason.
Welcome back my friend .. welcome back again ! im happy that you are at home with your family !! you have our support even you are so far away !! much love mahmood and all your family !!
I heard about your release on Free Speech Radio News (http://fsrn.org/headlines), and am very happy you’re home with your family.
Mahmood you have not an idea about how happy I became when they released you … I even had a celebratory cigar! #lol
الحمدلله على السلامة استاذ محمود.
I’m so glad too see you’ve been released. Keep up the good work, and may your work against sectarian strife in Bahrain be ever fruitful!
Many thanks my friends. To say I’m overwhelmed with your love and support is an understatement. I truly appreciate both and return them back to you with pleasure.
Although many find themselves in difficult circumstances in Bahrain at the moment, I’m sure that the country as a whole will overcome this, but it will only do so with our concerted efforts at reconciliation.
I know too that quite a lot of my compatriots have given up hope and think that the dialogue which has been called for by the Crown Prince is dead, I humbly disagree and think that a dialogue shall take place in the very near future. Hopefully immediately after the lifting of the emergency laws in a couple of months time. Accepting any other situation will defer this country and its people way beyond repair and this is totally unacceptable.
Passions are still high. Hatred abound. And suspicion and mistrust seems to be the defacto standard in our daily lives now, but we are human beings and as such cannot continue in this quagmire for long. Couple that fact with us Bahraini psyche of friendliness and good nature and one has to have hope for a better future.
What we’re passing through is traumatic and what I have passed through doesn’t even equate to a small percentage point of what others have had to endure, but even this abates with time.
We have a lot of work to do, the most important thing we can never allow to be lost is hope.
I wish you all peace and much love.
What’s truly worrying is that the people who are spreading hate, rumors and false information are being allowed to do so freely, yet moderate thinkers, geniune reformists, are being prosecuted, threatened, arrested and investigated!
We are happy to see you our and about again and that you were released quickly. And I hope that it will not deter you from continuing in your support of reform and dialouge and speaking out your mind.
Bahrain, indeed the world, needs more voices like yours.
7emdella 3ala elsalama
Glad to hear ur back