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Possess Ham, go to Jail!
You read the title right! It appears that the country I was born, raised and live in is slowly starting to go back in time. For a while I thought we were actually progressing. Bahrain appeared to the rest of the world like a friendly and free country, this freedom has attracted a lot of foreign investment from banking to you name it!
Unfortunately, MPs that have been elected by the people of Bahrain, have gone a bit too far in what they want in this country. It first started with the censoring of the Internet (although I’m not sure they were directly involved in the decision…), followed by a proposal to ban alcohol in the national airline (Gulf Air) and now, a ban on pork.
Right, so what is the punishment? I quote “two-month jail terms or fines of BD300, or both, for anyone in Bahrain who imports, sells or simply possesses pork.” (GDN, Feb 19, 2009). Yep, simply possessing pork can get you fined around $800 (oh and the possibility of going to jail!).
As a Muslim, I do not eat pork. But I don’t care whether anyone else eats pork, you see the difference between people like us and the MPs is that we are adapting to our multi cultural society!
I don’t know what other crazy laws they might come up with, while ignoring basic necessities like health, education, unemployment amongst other issues. I just hope we don’t get pushed way back in time…