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Bahrain appeals to regional coutries to confront extremism
Bahrain Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammad Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa appealed to the regional countries to "confront extremist ideologies," which are threatening the region. "We know there are Friday sermons, fatwas, and [religious] camps that collect money, a good part of which goes to support extremist ideology. We ourselves should confront these terrorist tendencies. We should not just sit there and blame the others," he said.
| Eventually we'll come for them, you know. We're actually still in the very early stages of the War on Terror. |
However, he stressed that the region's religious teachings had nothing to do with the rise of militancy. "Our schools teach religion. They don't teach our children how to kill people," he said.
| But your holy men do. Your neighbors do. Your culture — or at least that of the Lions of the Desert — does. The desert hard boyz have been beating up on their civilized coastal cousins for thousands of years. You really don't have to take it, you know. |
On Iraq, he said Bahrain was "happy" that last Sunday's elections were successful. He criticised the factions that boycotted the elections, saying that anyone who wants to end the occupation should enrol in the political process in that country.
Posted by: Fred 2005-02-05 |
