Bahrain's Gulf Daily News briger nogle interessante synspunkter vedr. den Shiamuslimske fundamentalist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja:
So Denmark has taken it upon itself to tell Bahrain how to handle its own affairs. How can a country that can't publish cartoons without attracting the wrath of Islam expect to tell a Muslim country how to do business? The irony ...
Denmark wants Bahrain to hand over opposition activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja ... jailed last year after being convicted of trying to overthrow the government with help from abroad.
Relevant sørgsmål ... har den danske regering skudt sig selv i foden (endnu engang) - Al Khawaja er efter alt at dømme en shiamuslimsk extremist, ifølge udtalelser fra oppositionen i Bahrain:
... what do other senior figures in the opposition movement think of him?
Comments by the editor of Bahrain's opposition newspaper Al Wasat, Dr Mansoor Al Jamri, detailed in secret documents released last May by WikiLeaks are quite enlightening.
"(Mr Al Khawaja) has absolutely no interest in democratic reform," he was quoted as saying.
The comment was allegedly made by Dr Al Jamri during a conversation with former US ambassador to Bahrain William Monroe.
Dr Al Jamri allegedly said that if Mr Al Khawaja ever took over, people would look back and view the reign of the Ruling Family as "paradise".
During the meeting with Mr Monroe, Dr Al Jamri allegedly accused Mr Al Khawaja of seeking to deliberately provoke aggressive reactions from the government.
"Dr Al Jamri was highly critical of Mr Al Khawaja, terming him an opportunist who was more interested in personal notoriety than genuine reform," according to a leaked US Embassy document about the meeting.
"He (Dr Al Jamri) cited an Arab expression about people who exploit a good cause (in this case unemployment among Shia) to create mischief, and said that this expression describes Mr Al Khawaja perfectly.
"Dr Al Jamri said Mr Al Khawaja's goal is to provoke the government to aggressive responses, believing that he is untouchable, because he has backing of the United States, Europeans and Western human rights groups."
Bahrain har forbudt Al Khawaja's organisation BCHR (Bahrain Centre for Human Rights), som øjensynlig kun er et dække for voldelige aktiviteter - en modus opendi som også er udbredt på den europæiske venstrefløj:
... the fact the BCHR's president Nabeel Rajab appeared on the BBC only recently to defend the use of Molotov cocktails and other violent acts does little to suggest their organisation is the peace-loving entity it is portrayed to be.
Sidst, men ikke mindst vigtigt, bliver den danske regerings dobbeltmoral og hykleri udstillet godt og grundigt:
Even if you ignore Dr Al Jamri's comments, the Denmark intervention is bang out of order - especially when you consider the serious nature of the charges Mr Al Khawaja was convicted of.
But what do you expect from a country that previously granted political asylum to the man widely reported to be a member of the Iranian-backed Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain - which was allegedly behind a 1981 coup attempt and other acts of sabotage?
Yet Denmark's own constitution is quite clear when it comes to defending its own political institutions, namely the Danish parliament.
"Any person who attacks its security or freedom, or any person who issues or obeys any command aimed thereat, shall be deemed guilty of high treason," it says.
But opposition activists like Mr Al Khawaja, who currently operates under the umbrella of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), are guilty of threatening not only the security of Bahrain's parliament - but of the very country itself.
Denmark retains the right to dissolve associations "employing violence, or aiming at the attainment of their object by violence, by instigation to violence, or by similar punishable influence on persons holding other views".
Spot on!
