Tag Archives: Politics

Gender equality is not high on Qassim’s mind

In actual fact, it’s not there at all. The equality question that is, not the mind: قال رئيس المجلس الإسلامي العلمائي الشيخ عيسى أحمد قاسم: «إذا كانت الحياة النيابية تجد صفوفاً رجالية كافية فالأولوية تفرض أن تجد المرأة شرف المكانة العالية في مجالات أخرى كالتخصصات الفقهية»، مشيرا إلى «أن تحقيق الاكتفاء داخل صفوف النساء في …

Family Law, part deux

Prepare yourself for another 100,000+ person march this weekend (yes, the F1 weekend!) to blackmail the parliament to rescind the Family Law the government sent it yesterday. Our e-steamed clerics are adamant that the proposed Family Law which concerns the Ja’afari sect (Shi’a) NOT be discussed and passed into law by parliament. What are their …

Phase 2?

A couple of days ago, an important and sacred shi’a mosque was destroyed reportedly by Wahabis or their sympathisers. Yesterday, another group again reported to be Wahabis attacked the most important oil manifold in the world in Abqaiq, a couple of hours’ drive from Bahrain. These actions are hardly indiscriminate. In the first, a clear …