The United States just congratulated, today, the country of Libya for achieving democracy and freeing itself from its dictator. To now provide arms to yet another dictator, albeit one who is paying for his arms request, who is not on the enemies’ list, is to become an arms dealer as low as those of Iran Contra and the Mexican Cartels.
Either democracy is worth assisting, or it is for sale. Please, do not condemn those of us who live in the USA to bear the wrath that will accompany such hypocrisy, and do not support torture anywhere in the world.

No one wants a teacher to be arrested. No one wants a tyrent be provided with arms. But only if the teacher was actually teaching and tyrent was actually what is claimed to be. Ms Jalila was coericng children to engage in activities that are far from learning. She and teachers whom followed her encouraged young children to strike, leave their classes, facilitated their transfer to the ex GCC roundabout to shout political slogans. She endangored their lives and changed the course of their future by involving them in activities far from their studies. Most of these kids were 5 to 15 year old children. I call that total irresponsibility and selfishness. In addition the regieme they are calling tyrent is one that is providing us with free education & health. Its subsidising our main food & consumable items. Sure it can do more & better. Sure its not a perfect society but its our home and we will not agree to exchange it even with a developed country. Democracy calls for responsibility & accountability & right for all to live & let live.

I wish there was a human rights team in bahrain in the recent years, there is no such rule in terms of discrimination ive seen in bahrain. there might be but none of them are properly heard by a normal man. In this case… how can teachers very commonly discriminate in students because of their ethnicity and roots,30% of the people in bahrain are naturalized, what about their human rights.. and hello what about the human right that a person is being naturalized in 25 years or more and not in 5 years as most of the european and western countries.

being naturalized at the end of one’s lifespan.. whats the point?

human rights out there, please help us in spreading the very basic rights of a naturalized citizen at least if the citizen is being discriminated.

The solution as I see it is simple. Cunningham and the moaning stooge Janahi might also go for this as it would offer them a way out of having their corporate I$lam challenged by traditional elements.

Why don’t all shias in Bahrain get deported to Iran?
That’s several hundred thousand, roughly speaking.

Then in turn, Iran can deport it’s 10 or so million sunnis (mostly uneducated Kurds, Turks and Arabs) and dump them in the priceless streets outside the City Centre Mall.

I think it’s a square deal. Rubbish? Well maybe, but not nearly as Cunningham’s condescending remarks that shias are being groomed by Iran to cause an upset. Even the government sponsored inquiry into the events detailed an absence of Iranian involvement in the recent uprising.

to hate toward the gay community. The campaign is spearheaded by Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) and a coalition of some 30 other organizations. The four-month campaign will engage civil society, political leaders, religious leaders, and the general public in dialogue about hatred and its physical and psychological manifestations.

The campaign was launched despite a break-in at FARUG’s headquarters earlier that same week. Kampala police initially refused to go to the crime scene but the organization’s lawyers stood up to this injustice, getting the police to open an investigation and take fingerprints at the office.

After the burglary at FARUG’s office, Human Rights First issued a call to the Ugandan police chief, asking him to personally oversee the investigation:

Dear Major General Kayihura:

I write to express my deep concern about the recent news of a burglary at the office of Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG). According to news reports, the police were late in getting to the crime scene. However, an investigation was ultimately opened and the crime scene analyzed by forensics experts. FARUG staff estimate that the burglars stole 5 computers, 2 printers, a server, a microwave, and various documents, including the members’ electronic database which includes the names of the organization’s members.

I urge you to personally oversee the investigation into the burglary and ensure that all perpetrators are located and brought to justice. If the perpetrators purposely targeted FARUG because of its work to protect the rights of LGBTI individuals, their possession of the oranization’s electronic database put individual members at risk. I urge the police to give high priority to this investigation and to stay true to your motto of “protect and serve” by guaranteeing protection to the members of Freedom and Roam Uganda and other rights activists who may be threatened by further violence and attacks.

More than 4,100 individuals have signed our petition to the police chief, and we hope that these signatures will help ensure that the crime does not go unpunished. We still don’t know if the robbery and another attempted break-in were meant to silence the work of organizations fighting for the rights of LGBTI Ugandans. However, FARUG and its executive director Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera assure us that their struggle will continue