The west's silence over Bahrain smacks of double standards
Guardian / Hooshang Amirahmadi and Kaveh Afrasiabi
29-Apr-2011 (6 comments)

The European Union and the Obama administration have made a splendid art of double standards by imposing sanctions on Tehran's rulers for their human rights violations and taking military action against the Libyan dictator while failing to address the appalling repression of the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain.

For the US and the EU, which claim to uphold principles over interests, this contradictory policy and their silence over the Saudi intervention in Bahrain is particularly harmful.

Indeed, it is hypocrisy for the history books – to be interpreted by future historians as a reflection of the dominance of western realpolitik over values. How else can one interpret the fact that so far EU-US officials have paid minimal attention to the brutal crackdown in Bahrain, which according to various human rights organisations has resulted in dozens of deaths and incarceration of several hundred protesters?

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Reality-Bites

A strange article

by Reality-Bites on Sat Apr 30, 2011 04:21 AM PDT

In the title in scolds the West for silence over Bahrain, but in the articles itself it admits that there has been, at least from some quarters, criticism of Bahrain in the West.

Indeed some of the concerns have been raised for a while.

//www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/28/barack-obama-bahrain-embrace-reform

//www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/19/us-bahrain-usa-idUSTRE71H5L420110219

//euobserver.com/892/32006

Having said that, there is no getting away from the fact that there seems to be double-standards in the way the West has dealt with Libya as opposed to Bahrain, even if the brutality in Libya is on a different scale.

The other double-standard charge regarding the Western support for the Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, a very repressive, anti-democratic and hardline Islamic country, is also valid and frankly it is a disgrace that West is so supportive of the house of Saud.

But Militaryforum joon, for now we will ignore your IRI's own hypocrisy in supporting the Bahraini and Egyptian protests while being against those in Syria.

 

 


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Bavafa

This is known in Farsi

by Bavafa on Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:25 AM PDT

  از هر دو طرف دهان صحبت کردن

 Or In English they call it hypocrite

Which attributes to lack of integrity, credibility and righteousness

Mehrdad


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Simorgh5555

Mahmoud Jan

by Simorgh5555 on Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:13 AM PDT

Spot on! 


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Simorgh5555

Mahmoud Jan

by Simorgh5555 on Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:13 AM PDT

Spot on! 


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mahmoudg

Ya right, like the West needs

by mahmoudg on Fri Apr 29, 2011 09:55 AM PDT

another set of moronic, murdering, raping towel heads still stuck in the 7th century, to run yet another country to the ground.  I think the people of the world and the region have caught on to the games of the shiites/Sunnis and Islam in general.  No more of this farsical backward way of thinking. World is moving forward and any religion and idelogy that is not moving with it will be left behind to rot.


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Simorgh5555

Good

by Simorgh5555 on Fri Apr 29, 2011 08:21 AM PDT

Let Shia blood spill! This is a dispute between branch of Arab death cult and another Arab death cult. As much as I despise the both I hope the Sunni's win. The Bahraini authorities have a right to take firm action against the rebel rousing Hezbollah funded Shia terrorists. I applaud the recent destruction of the Shia Mosque and all Shia places of worship should be demolished. 


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