Anti-monarchist protesters in Bahrain
are causing difficulties for the world of F1 motor racing. Western politicians
are calling them ‘pro-democracy campaigners.’ No doubt like-minded activists in
other parts of the Arab world will see them as fellow freedom fighters. The
Crown Prince of Bahrain referred to them as ‘criminal extremists.’
Maybe the next time we have inconvenient mass protest movements
here in the west (I’m thinking Wall Street and St Paul’s
Cathedral, for example,) we should be circumspect in our view of the descriptions
applied to them by our own Establishment figures.
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