Protesters Set The Streets On Fire In Bahrain After Saudis Kill Top Shiite Cleric
Earlier today, we documented Saudi Arabia’s largest mass execution in 25 years.
In what was billed as an effort to rid the world of 47 “terrorists”, the Saudis killed dozens of al-Qaeda affiliates and four Shiites who stood accused of shooting policemen in the anti-government protests which broke out during the Arab Spring.
Among the Shiites killed was prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimr. The Sheikh was an outspoken supporter of the anti-government movement and his death drew sharp condemnation from Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis on Saturday.
In the wake of the execution, “scores marched through Nimr's home district of Qatif shouting ‘down with the Al Saud’ and, in neighboring Bahrain, police fired tear gas at several dozen people who gathered to protest the news,” AP reported.
"Bahrain's Saudi-backed Sunni authorities crushed protests led by its majority Shia shortly after they erupted on February 14, 2011, taking their cue from Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa," al-Jazeera wrote back in February when hundreds took to the streets of Manama to commemorate the anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising. "Tensions are running high in the kingdom where a sectarian divide is deepening and there is a growing gap between the Sunni minority government and the Island’s Shia majority."
Below, find the searing (literally) images from Bahrain where police fired tear gas at protesters to disperse the crowds.
Are the days of the Gulf monarchies numbered?
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Bahrain isn't an "Islamic country", it's a US military base w some local slave labor.
"No color revolution for you!"
I lol'd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
A once and future province of the Persian Empire.
Obama = ISIS
Yep, it's pretty clear now that he is part of the plan.
Serious question for board -
is Obama a Sunni or a Shite or does he play for both teams?
NoVa
Thanks for the notice of the new propaganda meme "OBAMA == ISIS".
I hadn't been aware of that before, will now know it came from the Israeli-Neocon propaganda organs.
That was a good sequence, appearing to be 3 of you like that. I see it more and more, so you all got some advanced training this year?
Yes, any comment you disapprove on the internet is fake and comes directly from Israel. You caught them Sherlock.
Muslim of the year is a switch hitter for sure. He plays alls sides fore
Raised Sunni, but He now transcends all human categories.
I guess he is a Sunni-side up sort of guy.
He's a catcher. He likes to have a Sunni push up his Shite.
The writing is on the wall. Nations that are collapsing, often start to go off the rails when their leaders start to panic and overreach. I don't see SA making it to 2020 at this rate.
I hope the entire bloodline get the royal treatment
The Saudi reign of terror continues...
The West's hypocracy is breathtaking. Bomb the secular and relatively tolerant Assad, but lick the boots of the brutal intolerant butchers in saudi!
consider which 'mathematically impossible' minority controls the power nodes of MSM, banking, political activism, & jurisprudence, & it'll actually seem quite normal.
But, for 4 years running, you get kicked off of blogs for stating the facts.
lick the boots of the brutal intolerant butchers in saudi!
Birds of a feather and all that .. you know?
And this is why the rulers of Bahrain all live in Beverly Hills.
Seriously who in the world believes these countries are even legit, in any sense; administrative, legislative, etc?
It's actually an indicator of the humanity of the common man stuck over there, that he has not burnt the entire thing down already.
Hey now... A bunch of drunken Brits worked really hard to invent these grand duchies. And who says the Brits don't have a sense of humor.
Legit is might makes right. Please point out a legitimate country to me. They were all formed by territorial grab or assimilation by the more prolific and powerful.
"Legit", as in, does this even appear to be a country?
Excusing fraud with tortured abstractions is in vogue, I suppose. "Everyone else does it too".
Calling "Bahrain" a country is about the same as calling those fake Chinese islands part of China. One hurricane/riot/uprising away from being ancient history.
"Bahrain" is a country, yes, and Guantanamo is also in "Cuba", so let's blame the horrorshow at Guantanamo Bay on Castro. Makes about as much sense, no?
Both Turkey and Saudi Arabia will not be around in their current incarnation in 18- 24 months.
Hope so...the faster those places burn to the ground, the better off the rest of the world will be. They are stuck in the 7th Century.
The Bahrainis are stuck in the 7th century? Bzzzzt.
They're driving Ferraris around Beverly Hills.
Divide and conquer BS.
I used to have afternoon tea with the old Emir ,Wee Jock as he was known to the expat community.
He was pretty liberal among the Arab royals as they went.
Place seems to have gone to hell since he died and the causeway got built.,
Culturally.
Please do tell us all about the storied Dilmun culture!
LMFAO.
Oh, you meant they're all just a bunch of dirka dirka ragheads. Got it.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis.
Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
- Heinlein
The universe is god. Denying the existence of one is to deny the other, which seems foolish.
"The universe is god."
You confuse fact with faith.
A sand monkey in a ferrari is stil a sand monkey.
Come on man. You know the tune, hum along if you want.
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
We'll be fighting in the streetsWith our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Wearing the Inside Out
From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognize I'd become
No more than alive I'd barely survive
In a word... overrun
Won't hear a sound (He's curled into the corner)
From my mouth (But still the screen is flickering)
I've spent too long (With an endless stream of garbage to)
On the inside out (...curse the place)
My skin is cold (In a sea of random images)
To the human touch (The self-destructing animal)
This bleeding heart's (Waiting for the waves to break)
Not beating much
I murmured a vow of silence and now
I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile
I'm creeping back to life
My nervous system all awry
I'm wearing the inside out
Look at him now
He's paler somehow
But he's coming round
He's starting to choke
It's been so long since he spoke
Well he can have the words right from my mouth
And with these words I can see
Clear through the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again
I'm holding out (He's standing on the threshold)
For the day (Caught in fiery anger)
When all the clouds (And hurled into the furnace he'll)
Have blown away (...curse the place)
I'm with you now (He's torn in all directions)
Can speak your name (And still the screen is flickering)
Now we can hear (Waiting for the flames to break)
Ourselves again
- Pink Floyd, Division Bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCzOvgTCNuI
Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.
Don't these talking monkeys know that
Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly old monkeys,
Where there's one you're bound to divide it
Right in two
Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason.
And this is what they choose.
(and this is what they choose)
Monkey, killing monkey, killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs,
They forge a blade,
And when there's one they're bound to divide it,
Right in two.
Right in two.
Monkey, killing monkey, killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs,
They make a club
And beat their brother... down.
How they survived so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here
Gotta divide it all right in two (x4)
They fight, till they die
Over earth, over sky
They fight, over life,
Over brawn, over air and light,
Over love, over sun. Over blood
They fight till they die over words, polarizing.
Angels on the sideline again
Benched along with patience and reason
Angels on the sideline again
Wondering when this tug of war will end
Gotta divide it all right in two (x3)
Right in two
Right in two...
Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLjrD-oXkhA
Not sure about Erdogen since he seems to have remarkable sticking power.
But one of these days you'll wake up and flip on the computer to ZH and you'll read how the House of Saud was sweep away by the Sunni Frankenstien they created with AQ and ISIS.
The Saudis are on a very unstable foundation at the best of times and now with oil in the shitter their one high card is gone. They can't buy the peace anymore so it's back to state terror.
It's coming - they are as out of place in the modern world as North Korea is.
I agree. Kim in North Korea is supposedly a global joke, but are these Saudi royalty any different?
Oilier.
Saudi Arabia is to the middle east what the USA is to the world - a useful military industrial power that furthers the goals of London.
We will never turn on ZH to read about the end of the Kingdom of Saud, because when London no longer has a use for them, they also no longer have a use for the USA. As one is destroyed, so too is the other.
But Kim has a better plan. Any time they want some cash they just start talking about all out war with the US and presto like magic they get hand outs from US and China. A strategy perfected by Kim's grand father.
Yes, they are.
The oil price tumbling and subsidies removed will mean that wealth falls for this country.
They are trying to intimidate the population so they don't rebel as this happens.
Y'all know this but if I didn't say things because ZH and most commenters already know it I would say little.
This is just like watching hypocritical, retarded, progressive liberals run right smack into their own hypocritical, retarded, progressive liberalism.
Wouldn't it be nice if that cancels shit out.
scripted to raise the price of Crude.... Cmon folks....
Is there a charity or something I can donate to for these freedom fighters?
We walk around having it up to here, heads are empty
Sit up to the neck in garbage, have holes in our heart
Drowning worries and problems in the cup full of wine
With a smile of stone, nothing better occurs to us
We've already forgotten tomorrow, who we were yesterday
We've eaten ourselves full, never forget to pay
Leave everything standing and lay for more ash and dust
We all want that it works, but we don't watch out
The voice of reason has been silenced, we can't hear it anymore
But we sometimes have the feeling that we don't belong here
There is no forwards or back anymore, only below and above
One from 100 million, a small point on the ground
I lift off
I lift off, nothing holds me to the ground
Everything pale and grey
I haven't flown in too long
like an astronaut
I see the world from above
The rest pales in grey
I lost time and space up here
like an astronaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPFLAjmWCtk
Camel raper on goat raper violence is a non-starter. Move along, nothing to see here.
Once again, I can't help myself, from staing the obvious.