Thursday, October 25, 2007


Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead

Recently I read a short note on a Bahraini blogger by the name of Esra’a Al Shafei and some of her fellow bloggers who are trying to bring attention to the crimes the Iranian regime commits against Iranian Baha’is. Al Shafei is from Bahrain. It is an amazing work she is doing emphesising the Baha'is condition in Iran but the question is why we don’t find anything about the human rights violations where human rights defenders have been subjected to harassment, including prosecution on false criminal charges, threats or assault, the social discrimination that goes against Christians and official discrimination against Shi'a Muslims who are classified as "bidoon" and mostly living in extreme poverty, violence against women, and foreign workers who are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation without no protection at all in Bahrain, her country of birth, on their website. As some of us know there are Bahraini refugees in Iran as well as in Europe who have had to flee their country because and due to their belief system. The question is, are these Mideast Youth bloggers thinking ahead or some of them just turn a blind eye to what is happening in their own countries and to their fellow countrymen! It would be as if I as an Iranian born would not discuss the crimes committed against the Baha’is in Iran but only discuss the discrimination acts against the Shi'a Muslims, Mirzai's a.k.a Ahmadiyyah (Qadianis/Lahorites), Christians, and the ethnic cleansing of Kafirs in Pakistan.