walking down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh this past August, wasting time with both Hanan and Arif, we wondered into a tartan shop as I was looking for the Irvine threads (Frances’ clan) but we got to see quite a bit more during that quest, Arif first noticed these: I, of course, couldn’t resist asking …
Typical of foreigners, the Waalkes family who have just arrived in Bahrain are keeping a lizard (house gecko) as a pet, rathern than squashing the bloody thing! I (as a Bahraini) cannot abide lizards, I hate the things with a passion! But my wife, being Scottish, would actually pause and pet them. Ugghhh. I hate …
The signatories describe those who use religion for inciting violence as “the sheikhs of deathâ€?. Among those mentioned by name is Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian preacher working in Qatar. The signatories accuse him of “providing a religious cover for terrorism.â€? Last year Qaradawi raised a storm when he issued a fatwa allowing the killing of …
and I need it YESTERDAY! They’ve announced it on the nokia.com (at their conference in June) but no vendor in Bahrain (and as far as I can gather neither in Dubai) has it in stock. The Bahrain dealers said between “next week” through to mid-December. I can’t wait that long! If anyone knows where to …
Freedom of Speech having been robbed by parliamentarians,the very people elected to defend and promote this basic freedom, I can clearly foresee a time of the creation of concentration camps in Bahrain. Three MPs in particular want to immediately legislate against peaceful public protests and to gag any critic of the government and its officers: …