Month: November 2005

Boiling point reached?

The government is being so amateurish lately that it boggles the mind how they actually continue to believe that the only way to rule is by sweeping problems under carpets, rather than courageously coming out and facing them head on. Isn’t this attitude the very thing that started the “troubles” of the ’90s? We have …

We deserve the parliament we vote for

We shouldn’t really cry over Friday sermons delivered by a right honourable member of parliament, religious leader and imam Shaikh Jassim Al-Saidi when he ends his sermons with: اللهم إلعن اليهود Ùˆ النصارى Ùˆ الرافضه Ùˆ أرني فيهم يوماً أسود Oh Allah curse the Jews, Christians and the Shi’a and show me in them a …

Armed Thuggery

Bahrain doesn’t allow gun ownership and possession unless specifically authorised by the Interior Minister himself. So the only ones who do carry guns about their person are mostly members of the police and members of the military police (who I suspect are allowed to take their guns with them at the end of their duty?) …