Re: Bahrain protests
Political reasons are good reasons. Life is not just about how much money the state spends on you to keep you fat and compliant, which is what the problem is in this next passage:
You dont realise but I was born and raised in the gulf. I know what Bahrain provides and what it denies its citizens. While they’ll spend money on people to keep their rule going, they’ll deny them basic political and media freedoms that even third world countries far below them on the development ladder like Pakistan take for granted. Pakistan is much, much further along the way in terms of the civil liberties, than any gulf state or Iran.
As for the sectarian issue, sure, the protesters are predominantly shia. That is just the form of political misrepresentation specific to Bahrain. As a principle, what I support is that people should have the government they vote for, not whether my sect should rule over yours. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of many supporting Bahraini govt.