Bahraini Ambassador to US Highlights Bahrain\'s Religious Freedom

Bahrain's ambassador to the US is a Jewish female attorney from one of the Jewish merchant fmilies there...

http://www.bna.bh/portal/en/news/495998

Bahraini Ambassador to US Highlights Bahrain\'s Religious Freedom

07 : 35 PM - 26/02/2012


Washington, Feb. 26. (BNA) -- Bahrain's Ambassador to the United States Houda Nonoo has highlighted the Kingdom's superlative record in preserving religious freedom in a speech to members of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening.

"Bahrain is a free and open society. Women are fully empowered members of society. Although Bahrain is a Muslim country, religious minorities - including Christians, Jews, Hindus and Baha'i - enjoy full freedom of worship," Ambassador Nonoo said.

"Today, next to mosques, Bahrain is home to 19 registered Churches, a synagogue, Hindu temples and many other places of worship."

Welcoming members of the Congregation led by Rev. Fuad Khouri to Bahrain's Embassy, the Ambassador also reflected on the past year's events and reiterated the Kingdom's commitment to ongoing reform.

"Bahrain's government is committed to reform, and to implementing progressive policies that will help achieve reconciliation for all Bahrainis," she said. "We are committed to that journey because the future of Bahrain and its people relies on a meaningful unification strategy. This journey has begun."

Reflecting on the evening in a post on her blog, Ambassador Nonoo stated: "Events like these are a wonderful opportunity to share Bahrain's unique story as a progressive outpost in the Middle East and I look forward to sharing Bahrain's longstanding tradition of religious freedom with our American friends."

 

Thank you for sharing this, Facts which most of Western News media would apparently choose not to focus on.

well done.

 

I didn't know little Bahrain had so many churches.

 

Nor did I - goes to show how most of our media are manipulated to whichever direct the political wind is blong.


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Bahrain's record on human rights has been described by Human Rights Watch as "dismal", and having "deteriorated sharply in the latter half of 2010".

That said I have no doubt that compared to other Arab states it does look stellar.

 

American friends living in Bahrain for over a decade say this is all media hype..

 

Frau Goebbels , Bahrain's ambassador (Jew and women) is only wahhabi slave . she says what she was told and payed for.

 

Don't be absurd..

Bahrain has had an educated middle class since the 1930s.

 

Very sad, but you don't let street rabble overthrow the government and take over the country.

 

i know you wahabbi 9/11 used to call Bahrain´s majority for rabble ...

ps

Bahrain medical staff sentenced over protests - YouTube "AlJazeeraEnglish den 29 sep 2011" i d like to have coupe of rabble - friends like them ^

 

While I have no doubt that the medical community was sympathetic towards the rabble... you still don't let a mob take over your country.

 

i m not form medical community and i have a big respect to those people . i m just a humanist not like you ... and we(as usual) are gonna win sooner or later

 

Win what? a broken country mired in poverty, ignorance and chaos?

The Shia minority who won't work or go to school have been breaking out in riots since the 1950s.

 

edition: The Shia majority. you have tried illegally change demography , but Shiits are still majority. and will rule this country like any other majority does