Shi'ite mosque demolitions raise tension in Bahrain
Reuters / By Ulf Laessing
27-Apr-2011 (6 comments)

NUWAIDRAT, Bahrain

 (Reuters) - Two bulldozers and two large trucks are busy removing a large pile of stones, wood and prayer carpets on a large square -- all that remains of a small Shi'ite mosque in the Sunni-ruled kingdom of Bahrain.

"Do you see this ? This was a mosque until this week. They destroyed it," said a Shi'ite man, stopping his car in this poor Shi'ite village outside the capital Manama to point to another heap of masonry, where residents say another mosque once stood.

A religious book lies on top of stones next to a carpet, branches of a palm tree and parts of a gate of a mosque, one of three reduced to rubble next in a residential area.

"It was an old mosque," said the driver, who like other residents declined to give his name for fear of reprisals.

Last month the royal family in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, quelled mainly Shi'ite protests inspired by Arab revolts elsewhere, declaring martial law and calling in troops from Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-ruled Gulf neighbours.

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Simorgh5555

Bravo Bahrain! Damesh Garm.

by Simorgh5555 on Wed Apr 27, 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Dameshun Garm! Take down the Shia whore house of a mosque and convert them to public lavatories. 

I wholeheartedly congratulate the Bahraini authorities or Terrorists for destroying the Mosque. I live to see the day when every Shia Mosque across Iran is brought down in flames.  



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HHH

Good Start

by HHH on Sat Apr 30, 2011 02:18 AM PDT

They should bulldoze ALL mosques, churches and synagogues in the world or turn them into museums.

These man-made religions have done nothing but to divide us and take us back just so a few charlatans can freeload.


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Soosan Khanoom

Simorgh5555 & mahmoudg

by Soosan Khanoom on Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:22 AM PDT

you two seriously need some help.  I am not sure even anger management class would help out but I suggest to give it a try. let us hope that you won't fail the class !!


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Roozbeh_Gilani

I'd at least try to understand this....

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:47 AM PDT

If they had also destroyed the Sunni mosques.

But in reality, this behaviour is just as bad as Iranian Islamist regime's suppression of sunni Iranians. In essence what we are seeing here is a process of divide and rule, upon which the people are set against each other, along secterian lines, isntead of fighting  their corrupt -shia and sunni- rulers in a united front. We saw this in Iran_Iraq war where two blood thirsty dictators , Khomeini and saddam, set their people against each other , hence strengthening their own rules.

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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Bavafa

when you read comments such as in here

by Bavafa on Thu Apr 28, 2011 09:35 AM PDT

One wonders, if such people are really after democracy, rule of law and freedom...

or they are happy as long some shit is brought down to Shiite.

Never mind that the very same people that are bringing such shit (i.e Saudi Arabia) are the main culprit and financier behind groups that was responsible for 9/11, all the mayhem in Afghanistan and the misery that has engulfed much of ME.

Mehrdad


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mahmoudg

The start of the many mosques

by mahmoudg on Thu Apr 28, 2011 08:27 AM PDT

that will be brought down in that part of the world.  In Iran we should start by raising to the ground, the tomb of that demon Khomeini when we re-take our country from the charlatans.


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