Bahrain’s Shi’ite opposition took two separate paths in its efforts to end what has been a very violent crackdown against protesters by the Bahraini government and thousands of Saudi-led foreign troops.
Primarily, the opposition issued a statement today calling on the Sunni-ruled government to accept political talks that would put the nation on a track to “real democracy.” The Crown Prince of Bahrain had been pressing for such talks, but that has largely stopped since the Saudi invasion.
At the same time, the 18 opposition MPs who resigned from Bahrain’s parliament to protest the crackdown petitioned the United Nations in general and the United States in particular to demand an end to the foreign military presence and to help mediate the talks with the regime.
Both calls seem unlikely to bear immediate fruit at this point. The Bahrain regime seems to have abandoned the pretense of talks in favor of imposing a military solution. Though the US has expressed some vague opposition to the violence in Bahrain, there appears to be little interest in seeing the regime, a longtime US ally, fall to the protesters.
It won't happen- the opposition in Bahrain is made up of mostly Shi'a, and there's no way the US is going to allow them to gain power over the ruling Sunni's. To do so would tip the scales in favor of Iran a bit more and, of course, we can't have THAT. Turn Bahrain over to those with ties to Iran, who hasn't attacked anyone for centuries? INCONCEIVABLE !
That being said, I'm moderately Sunni myself but I fully support my Shi'a brothers in Islam in their struggle for fairness and justice in their land. May Alla(swt) give them strength and protect them from harm.
As well they should. Between the Saudi Wahabis and the pigs in Bahrain they've massacred those poor protesters and they were very peaceful. How disgusting! However, I fear that this particular debacle is directly tied to the US and its hegemony over Bahrain. It will never happen. Those poor people.