"The anonymous mobile messages ... are specifically urging women candidates to withdraw their registration papers to avoid clashing with Islamic principles." Sharia Alert from the Khaleej Times: "Women candidates receiving threats"
MANAMA -- Much concern is mounting in political and other circles as female election candidates have reportedly started receiving anonymous threats and blunt mobile messages urging them to back out from next month's parliamentary and municipal polls in Bahrain.
The anonymous mobile messages, according to Dr Muneera Fakhro, who is one of the candidates, are specifically urging women candidates to withdraw their registration papers to avoid clashing with Islamic principles.
She told Khaleej Times yesterday that these messages are very upsetting for women candidates. They have been worrying about many things recently, including how best to convince people in a male-oriented society to vote for them and also how to secure the political endorsement and financial backing of recognised political societies.
Dr Fakhro and other female candidates have already filed official complaints in this connection to the Supreme Council for Women and urged the SCW to address this issue and ensure that women candidates are not intimidated in any way.
The SCW, she pointed out, is very influential as it is chaired by the First Lady Shaikha Sabika bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa and is committed to supporting and empowering women in all spheres including politics.
Dr Fakhro has also called upon the Ministry of Islamic Affairs to tackle the matter as well as the Ministry of Justice to take appropriate action as it is the official supervisor of the parliamentary and municipal polls.
Dr Fakhro claimed that some conservative scholars (Salafi) are behind the threatening mobile messages because many of them are strongly opposed to the idea of women participating in these polls, slated for November 25.
"We have five weeks remaining for voting day and I now fear tougher negative campaigns against women candidates. This is because despite the openness of Bahraini society, there are many people who are still against the political empowerment of women," she said.
Clearly.
Veiled threats.
LOL! Very funny.
You're quick, Shy Guy. Thanks for the early-morning laugh.
bahrain is a fraud of a country. please advise your friends to BOYCOTT the nominal muslim countries.
One other thing about Bahrain, far more important for Infidels than whether women are threatened if they run for office. That is: who controls? Who rules? Is it to be the Sunni Arab minority, and the Sunni Arab Ruler of Bahrain (as the British used to call him) who by now must be nearly a king, or king of kings, or Emperor, of Bahrain who is the local despot? Or is it to be theh 70-75% of the population that is Shi'a, and becoming bolder and more restive? And part of that boldness, part of that restiveness, is no doubt prompted by the Iranian investors who now move about in both Bahrain and Dubai, and also by the Sunni-Shi'a hostilities in Iraq.
How will those inevitable, merely-to-be-slightly-delayed-but-not-avoidable hostilities between Sunnis and Shi'a in Iraq affect Bahrain?
How do you think?
And does it, for you, the Infidel, matter who eventually comes out on top, or why, or how?
Bahrain apparently enjoys life in the 7th century. Heaven forbid a few women try to bring it closer to the 21st century.
Aside from oil is it any wonder these toilet bowl countries are all in the third world?
Bahrain apparently enjoys life in the 7th century. Heaven forbid a few women try to bring it closer to the 21st century.
Don't be so quick to criticize. As our sworn polic officers and prosecutors avert their eyes and tacitly approve, hundreds of thousands of clitorodectomies are performed each year in the Medical Arts buildings across the street from inner city hospitals across America.
Many are peformed at university hospitals. Such are the fruits of multiculturalism and feminism at our citadels of higher learning. Animalism.
In other words, to quote a certain punk band from the 80s, We Are Devo.