{"id":9371,"date":"2012-05-02T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:33:26","slug":"bahrain-reduced-to-a-simple-dichotomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9371","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Reduced to \u201ca Simple Dichotomy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain Reduced to \u201ca Simple Dichotomy\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n2 May, 2012 &#8211; POMED<\/p>\n<p>Ed Husain penned an op-ed in the New York Times describing his experience as the guest of the Royal family in Bahrain. He describes Prince Salman bin Hamad as a \u201cliberal\u2019s liberal,\u201d a western-educated reformer. He says the prince acknowledged the \u201cdire\u201d need to reform, but said the opposition is divided and led by pro-Iranian Shia Cleric Issa Qassim. Husain argues that instead of providing \u201cdiplomatic cover\u201d for rioters and clerics \u201cin the name of human rights and democracy\u201d the U.S. should support reformers within the monarchy. Gregg Carlstrom wrote a response to Husain on the The Majlis saying that he had reduced Bahrain\u2019s uprising to \u201cto a simple dichotomy.\u201d According to Carlstrom Husain\u2019s central fallacy is presenting Qasim as a central figure in the uprising.The Arabist compares Husain\u2019s description of the Prince as a \u201cwestern-educated reformer\u201d to similar claims made about former Arab leaders. The terms presented by Husain, reads the article, are essentially making the opposition agree to the monarchy\u2019s terms.<\/p>\n<p>A Bahraini doctor, one of 20 medics tortured into a confession, wrote an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor expressing her fear despite the news of a \u201cretrial\u201d for Abudlhadi al-Khawajah, that the legal process is still being used \u201cto deliberately deny justice.\u201d Witness Bahrain interviewed Wafi Kamel Al-Majed, husband of imprisoned Zainab al-Khawaja, who described her conditions imprisonment, and said that the international community need not interfere in the situation, but simply cease giving support to the dictatorship \u201cthat is killing and torturing us and treating us worse than animals.\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/pomed.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/bahrain-reduced-to-a-simple-dichotomy.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D9371&amp;text=Bahrain+Reduced+to+%E2%80%9Ca+Simple+Dichotomy%E2%80%9D&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain Reduced to \u201ca Simple Dichotomy\u201d 2 May, 2012 &#8211; POMED Ed Husain penned an op-ed in the New York Times describing his experience as the guest of the Royal family in Bahrain. He describes Prince Salman bin Hamad as a \u201cliberal\u2019s liberal,\u201d a western-educated reformer. He says the prince acknowledged the \u201cdire\u201d need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9371#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2932],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9373,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}