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Burning flags

photo courtesy Al-Wasat newspaper Isn’t there a law in Bahrain that criminalises burning of flags? Especially flags of those countries which we do have good relations with? Well, this is Mohammed Khalid, the member of parliament and representative of the Northern District 6, sans slippers, burning the Danish flag to show his disapproval of the …

ما في الديرة رجال؟

تأسيس لجنة للدفاع عن الرسول يرأسها السعيدي أعلن مساء أمس في الرفاع الشرقي تأسيس لجنة شعبية، وذلك للتعبير عن سخط الاهالي من الاساءة الى النبي الكريم عبر الصحف الدنماركية ومن موقف حكومتها من صحافتها المحلية، وتم تشكيل اللجنة تحت مسمى «لجنة الرفاع للدفاع عن الرسول الكريم» وتم اختيار النائب جاسم السعيدي رئيسا لها، وناصر السندي …

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 …

MPs reject lifting Israeli boycott

Furious MPs yesterday slammed the door on any political or economic relations with Israel. There were angry outbursts in Parliament, despite assurances by Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa that there was no such move. “We have no plans to forge relations with Israel, whether financially, politically or diplomatically,” he said at parliament’s …