On “Inciting Hatred”
Bahrain isn’t exactly known for it’s tolerance for controversial thoughts and ideas under respect for “Freedom of Expression”, the history of the local media has been one of tight state control and censorship.
The internet has always been the alternative “peoples media” when it came to news of the political standpoints of local issues. Blogs and Forums are very widely spread around the country; typically every small village has a forum of its own, usually used to announce news of public social events like marriages, deaths and such, others are very wide in content and extend over political and religious debate to offer semi-live coverage of protests, marches and clashes with the local police, shedding a light of truth on the local congested political scene that is typically either ignored or marginalized by the public press.
I usually surf around the active Bahraini forums on a daily basis, to get a feel on the “word on the street” and updates of what is “really” going around, and I’m truly shocked by how the content of the forums have recently changed. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, the below are snapshots from some of the most prominent local forums:
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I find it truly shocking that such schools of thought have found their way to Bahrain, now using the internet to incubate mind-sets of hatred, violence and abhorrence between the people of the country on secretarial or loyalty vs. opposition basis.
And no matter what justification I try to make to substantiate or even reason this, I can’t. The posters are obviously not “lured youngsters” which is how the local media is trying to label them as, those posts are relatively of high writing quality, the guidelines on the bomb making posts are very descriptive and detailed, the slogans all around the post itself show a very high scale of hate and revulsion that is truly worrying.
This goes all laws and regulations of free speech, the government has been recently trying to clampdown on activists on “inciting hatred and violence” charges, failing to understand that those they do not support or even call for violence, nor do they incite hatred towards the opposite sect, but in fact just form an opposition movements towards the system as a whole but not the ruling family, the King or the regime.
Violence and secretarial divides are being provoked before our own eyes on the internet, what are they doing against it?
sigh ! Don’t get me started moe ! Seeing thing like that makes me sick ! Like I said in our last bloggers gathering. how blog like mahmood’s and sites like aldimocrati.com gets proxied while junk like that is left untouched ! Where is the bloody ministry of information ?
if things continues in that manner it will only be a matter of time for this to seep into the streets ! 
things like those should not only be banned for the users of Bahrain, but should rather be banned off the server completely. Now I’m guessing that if someone would drop an email explaining those posts to abuse@[where.ever.it.is.hosted].com would get it off line.
moodz …
Send me the addresses, I’ll try and whois the links and see if we can get those junk sites banned of the servers (providers)
I think it is pretty funny that many websites are being banned for many things that are far from being dangerous to the community than this.
I’m not against freedom of speech, and I really don’t believe in blocking websites and blogs to start with, BUT, if the government is trying to have “control” over the content that can be accessed from bahrain, but those websites exist and operate for the sole reason of damaging the very much hurt relationship between sunna and shiiat in Bahrain.
Try and post anything positive about this relationship, or something in the quest of fixing it, or even guidance, you posts will be deleted and you might be banned as well.
I wouldn’t really want to raise the issue up to higher authorities and block the site, at the end of the day those forums are very popular around the country and are usually used for far better purposes, I personally rely on them for coverage on the usual clashes with the local police force.
On the other end, the tutorials and guides for bomb making can be easily found all over the internet and aren’t really hard to fetch. Rest safe that all those methods in that forum are of high complexity and require compounds that are not easily available in the local market.
The entire point of raising this is to show the amount of hate and abhorrence those people carry, that has now found it’s way to the internet.
the whole point of my post.
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