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



m.h.ghuloum@gmail.com