Our Friends in Bahrain
Charles Johnson
Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 4:36 pm PDT • Views: 219
An unidentified Bahraini youth holds up a picture of Osama bin Laden during a rally Friday, April 28, 2006, in Muharraq, Bahrain. About 200 people, including many children, turned out for the demonstration demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq, showing support for bin Laden and for the new Hamas government in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Bahrain’s Sunni Muslims show support for Hamas.
Hardline Sunni Muslims staged a small but noisy demonstration in support of Palestinian and Iraqi insurgents on Friday, but their underlying aim appeared to be a bid to raise their community’s profile against the Shi’ite Muslim majority, which has dominated protest politics in Bahrain.
Shouting “Death to America,” the 150 protesters called on Arab governments to support Iraqi insurgents and the Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority. They demanded that the United States withdraw from Iraq and handed out T-shirts bearing the image of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
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