Democracy vs Coup d'Etat in Bahrain

AJ UpFront is a confronting talk show with in its latest show as guests one of Bahrain's most known human rights activist Mariyam al-Khawaja.

Yes, from the same well known human rights defense al-Khawaja family and a pro-government "analyst". We embedded the latest edition so you can watch for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

The first thing that we noticed was this: "human rights as a foreign policy". Well, the man talks Wahhabism language as we know from the Saudis. The remark also suggest that he doesn't recognize the UN Charter while his country is a member of the UN General Assembly.

So, how can he say that human rights is a foreign policy while his country as signatory of that charter.

He then reiterates the policies of  American presidents as he thinks that these policies are part of ... well, his bigger picture, not the real bigger picture. The Arab Spring have nothing to do with the American policies.

Then he tries to learn us all that the Arab Spring was to topple the rulers by force which then is in his view a coup d'etat, a view he even uses when he talks about a toppling of the ministry of health.

What he said is one of the most utterly nonsense we ever have heard about the Arab Spring.

The uprising finds its roots in the social unrest over rising commodity prices affecting the food prices. The first protest on the eve of the Arab Spring was in Algeria no one is mentioning.

The Algerian unrest was still there even two days before the Bahraini Days Of Rage.

The man, who seems to be a doctor in whatever science, uses the words "topple", "revolution" and "coup d'etat" while failing to use all theses word in a inappropriate way.

Five years ago, there was no protest aimed to topple anyone at the top. If it was to topple then protesters should not just gather but also not at the wrong place. It's on a roundabout, not in front of the palace.

What the man willful deliberately ignores is that fact that protesters have never chanted anything that we would understand as the monarchy must step down or they want to get rid of the monarchy. The only thing we could understand from the beginning is that it was about democracy. That is why we say that he used "revolution"  in a appropriate way.

We became shocked when he was referring to the refugees crisis while mentioning the country's name France and Germany. He putted the crisis into the context of the Arab Spring!!

People started first to flee because of Assad who used his father's method (Hama massacre 1982), then later because of Daesh that wants to spread to same ideology the Saudis have, and finally because of Putin and Khamenei (with Hezbollah) both joining the total destruction of the country of the people, not the country the Assad family wants to keep owning.

People do not flee because of the Arab Spring. They flee because of the rulers who don't want any change in the country.

That all brings us to the real essence:

All  Gulf countries are ruled by families. That is number one.

Number two is the problem the whole region reluctant refuse to realize, that all Arabs (even the Israelis) are experts in running away from the real thread that goes through every dispute, conflict, meddling, war or any other collective violence:

It's rivalry either Sunnis against Shiites or the other way around. That is also the case in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in Egypt (coup d'etat by El Sisi) and Libya (dual governments) and Tunisia (country turns Islamic).

Our conclusion?

To begin with this embedded video that was taken in Sitra and posted on You Tube on March 31, 2010 but issues an clash three days earlier:

It illustrates how at least inaccurate the doctor's "bigger picture" is. There was namely already unrest in Bahrain before the Arab Spring even reached the country.

The man's painting ... well, better spend our eyes on looking at children's paintings. They are pure and honest.

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