The candidate applications are in for the 40 constituencies which make up Bahrain last night, and the surprise/non-surprise is that the constituency 6 of the Southern Governate had only one candidate running, and it happened to be the same lady who ran in the Riffa constituency in 2002 against our beloved Deputy Dawg. She took …
And any other mosque for that matter and the right to lead prayers as far as I am concerned. So here’s another petition that is looking for your support, especially if you are Muslim as this will affect your wife, your mother, your sisters and daughters if you do not take action now. Update 060914: …
With the wealth of information access in the Arab world, courtesy of the internet and satellite TVs, more and more people are rightly asking for their God-given rights, rather than just be happy with those “bestowed” on them by kings and presidents. Those times, have gone and will never come back. Witness Wajiha al-Huweidar, she …
No no, it’s not a joke, it’s real, and what’s even MORE real is that the Bahraini who is heading the GA is a woman! The General Assembly elected a champion of women’s rights in Islamic courts as its next president on Thursday, making Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain the third female to lead …
Ghada Jamsheer: Activist “We have to have equal rights for women in the Arab world” By SCOTT MACLEOD Sunday, May. 14, 2006 Five years ago, Ghada Jamsheer was at the courts in Bahrain when she saw a woman sobbing and banging her head on the ground; applying Islamic law, a judge had just denied her …