Front Line Defenders Incubating a Lie
I barely have the time to scratch my head, let alone sit down and write, but sometimes when lies need to be refuted and corrected, someone has to sit down and respond and question the fabricated headlines that cause damage to individuals, an entire nation and not just the government.
Front Line Defenders recently published an article entitled Government of Bahrain sees no difficulty exporting recruits to ISIS while jailing a human rights defender for a Tweet. The content of the article has nothing to really do with the headlines apart from mimicking what they regularly refer to as a prominent source. In order to catch attention of those unaware, the striking propaganda style headline would make someone unaware of the happenings in Bahrain assume the worst.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the entry by a number of Bahraini members of Parliament (MPs) to Syrian territories had taken place without any prior knowledge or coordination with the Ministry and without their having submitted any application for permission nor informing the Ministry ahead of that visit.
They showed no proof whatsoever to back up such a headline apart from this particular source who forgot to research previous headlines from 2012.
Prior to Front Line Defenders headlines the Ministry of Interior detained a group of people who traveled to Syria and are investigating their links with foreign terrorist groups.
Front line defenders is a supposed human rights defender, not a dictating judge and jury. There is no need to incubate a lie in order to do your job. Governments are not responsible for individual acts and these individual acts happen everywhere.
Like every NGO they seem to have this special immunity to say whatever they want in order to defame governments and individuals they disagree with, because they have the power and backing to do so. They seem to have this special kind of “wasta” they complain about when it does not suit or include them.
Note:The Bahrain protests, like those of Egypt, Libya, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea, Thailand, and beyond, were trained, equipped, and supported by the US State Department. Leading opposition organizations, such as the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, are partnered directly with US State Department-funded fronts like the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) while a high-profile self-proclaimed leader of the protests, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, was regional coordinator of “Frontline Defenders,” a Ford Foundation, Freedom House, Open Society Institute-funded “human rights” advocacy group.
Image: Screenshot from Front Line Defenders – yet another disingenuous “human rights” advocacy front funded by Fortune 500 corporate foundations, including the US State Department-funded Neo-Conservative-lined Freedom House, the Ford Foundation, the Oak Foundation, and the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Note the “Hunger Strike for Freedom” banner on the right-hand side for Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja. The Bahrain protests are a carbon-copy Western destabilization as seen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria.
