Not only would the appointment of a non-Muslim woman be a break with tradition, it will be the first time that Bahrain will have appointed an ambassador who is not a member of the Bahrain royal family.
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how can a jewish represent an islamic country,eventhough there are jews (few) in the Kingdom
ReplyDeletei guess they want to curry favor with the "Jewish Lobby" in the U.S.
ReplyDeletewell as far as it's known no political background,in the parliment after her relative was out a year ago...
ReplyDeleteweird to be presented there through a jewish coming from the gulf from an islamic country
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Why is it weird? Only because there are so few Jews left in the Islamic world. It is easy to forget that inn the last century there was a Jewish finance minister in Iraq, and Jews were in prominent posts in Egypt, and in the government in Tunisia and Morocco.
ReplyDeleteWe're not against jews it's a religion like any other existing in the world...she's originaly iraqi,so the point is not jewish religion,it's that bahrain is an islamic country like most of the gulf region,we think to be presented outside bahrain should be through a muslim embassador...in the end no one knows it's politics
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