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This was followed by a decree from the Ministry of Information instructing Bahraini website and blog moderators to register their sites with the Ministry and assume responsibility for materials published on them within a period of three months. This was deemed "a violation of freedom of opinion and restriction of freedom of expression" according to Bahraini activists. Khawaja claimed this was a way to censor internet-based forums and discussions even if run by Bahrain nationals from abroad.
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Was already rejected.
If you've read my post earlier, you would've known.
It was rejected due to a petition started by the very blogger you spoke of.
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Look, man. I appreciate your interest in this matter, but I don't think a quick google search is gonna do it whenver we have to argue about this. Let's just agree to disagree. You claimed that there's no freedom whatsoever in the Media, I told you why you're wrong with exampls (in fact you did the work yourself and found a good example that you were trying to use against me. The fact tha the blogger was critisizng the matter without being caught or even threatened at all should speak volumes.
I agree with you with what you said earlier, that we actually agree on most things. I apologize for being hostile, I just don't like it when someone who clearly doesn't know enough tries to tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about. If you're gonna Google anything then please find information on Jamsheer and how she shook the country, you can't comprehend anything regarding the media laws in Bahrain if you're not familiar with this particular case. It goes against what Mahmood was worried about and proved to us that it IS okay to voice your opinion, and from now on the law won't try to dance its way around you until it steals your rights and leaves you with nothing. They're changing because we won't accept them wanting to turn us into mindless automatons like Saudi who'll exile or punish anyone who has an opinion.
Also, most Muslims are not Arabs or are from the Middle East. This place should be the last place to set an example on Islam.
I can see this going in circles and circles but I think we both heard what we both had to say about this. I appreciate your posts, I accept that we both think the other is misinformed. On religion, I understand, but on the laws of a country I come from (which you aren't familiar with ... at all) you can't just Google things up and expect yourself to have a strong enough argument. A lot of Bahrainis have been to Ghada's trials, I heard what's been said regarding freedom of expression and how she won and how the government couldn't ever think up a better comeback to that. It's because we're changing. And with that change comes a better, more democratic future. I hope that we can set an example to this region the way Israel proudly does (and rightly so, most Arabs critisize them because they want someone to blame. If most of us had been smarter we would've competed instead of just blaming them for all the problems in the world. Sadly this is not the case. I'm not calling Arabs stupid and clueless people who can't think for themselves, because this is untrue. I'm calling our governments stupid for taking THIS long to take serious actions towards something more democratic. I'm calling our governments stupid for not giving us the opportunity to excel. For not believing. For not wanting us to grow as civilizations because they're too scared that we're rise up against them. They like power - we have no power to change that. It sucks to be us because of THIS, not because we're Muslim. Not because we're mislead and blind. The only reason why the government HAS to change is because we DO know too much, that it's too hard for them to hide. They're being called out on it whenever we get the chance, they can't imprison that many people. If we shut up and "accept" things, which is what they do in Saudi, we'd be as far as they are behind.
Most Arabs have been fucked over. They're not stupid, or are ignorant of their own oppression. The ones in Saudi have very strong feelings that they will never get to express. If that place stays the way it is, it's going to be as backwards as Mauritania is within a short time span.
This has nothing to do with Islam, however. It has a lot to do with how the Middle East have changed throughout the years as it's been raped by tyrants and cunts. The terrorists in Saudi who commit crimes within Saudi get away ALL the time which should say how corrupt the place is.