Defiance                             Destroying Lulua
“MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain on Friday tore down the protest movement’s defining monument, the pearl at the center of Pearl Square, a symbolic strike that carried a sense of finality. The official news agency described the razing as a facelift. “We did it to remove a bad memory,” Bahrain’s foreign minister, Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, said at a news conference. “The whole thing caused our society to be polarized. We don’t want a monument to a bad memory.” …..”

Silly al-Khalifa: they think by tearing down a monument that they themselves had erected will mean “mission accomplished”. The real monument will outlast them. The Bahraini minister, who styles himself a “bon vivant”, talks about “erasing a bad memory”. I imagine that to most of Bahrain’s people he and his family and their corrupt retainers and their Apartheid policy and their invited foreign invaders are the “bad memory”.
Cheers
mhg



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