#Bahrain: the kingdom of religious oppression

Massive rally , west of the capital Manama today Friday 5th April 5, 2013 titled ” strives to ruin them” –marking one of the painful anniversaries in the history of Bahrain, mosques demolishing. A crime of many that were perpetrated by the Bahraini regime, during a period, when the Peninsula Shield forces entered the country , and during a period when the people of Bahrain had witnessed all kinds of vindictive violations that they have never witnessed before, most of these violations were perpetrated against the pro-democracy citizens. Many human rights organizations as well as the BICI have documented these violations.

The regime’s vindictive repressive measures was targeting everything. In a historic precedent, the regime ,shockingly, destroyed 38 mosques across Bahrain some of them were build 400 years ago, which is before the presence of the current ruling family.

The BICI report, which known as Bssiouni Report which was issued in November 2011, concluded that the mosques demolishing, which perpetrated by the regime , was vindictively perpetrated against a fragment of citizens and it is unlawful and lacks the logical justification. The commission also pointed out the many sacred places have been vandalized in addition to their facilitilties. The commission recommended also that these demolished mosques must be rebuilt and hold the perpetrators accountable for all violations committed against the citizens’ religious practices and their beliefs… the issues is unresolved as the authorities refuse to rebuild all the demolished mosques.
It is not only the demolishing of mosques that has been witnessed during the emergency law in 2011, which was based on oppressing the Bahraini revolution that erupted in 14th February,2011. Violations took many different forms, arbitrary arrests, torture to death, thousands of workers dismissed from their works, mosques had been demolished, which were all internationally denounced. The regime could not justify the mosques demolishing, some officials wanted to justify it their justifications were all contradictory, which indicated that the whole process vindictively conducted against the citizens and their beliefs, measures that have never been taken in any Islamic country in the world.
The demands in Bahrain have entered their third year , they demand a peaceful democratic transition of power a real partnership to run the country, but these demands are still being faced with brutal violence and oppression from the official side, some of the area across in Bahrain have been militarized by the regime forces that work hard to stop any peaceful protest that take place in many areas across the country.