In the beginning of the session, Khalifa Al-Dhahrani delivered a speech in which he said that the legislative authority carries out its legislative and monitoring responsibility, accentuating the need to implement the law on everybody, adding that “the dangerous escalation which tries to drift the country in a whirlpool of insecurity and political tensions should be faced. Al-Dhahrani urged MPs to put forth recommendations in order to set legal and legislative limit for all acts of terrorism in order for the reform process to proceed forward.
The Deputy Prime Minister Jawad bin Salem Al-Arrayed stressed that the honorable government has always been compliant with the law in maintaining security and combating terrorism, and said that there is no procrastinating whatsoever with destabilizing the Kingdom’s security or with those who fail to shun or circumvent the shunning of violence. This statement came today during his intervention before the National Assembly’s extraordinary session held this morning.
Other members of both Shura Council and House of Representatives spoke in the session as well. MP Latifa Al – Qa’ood demanded hitting with an iron fist against all traitors and toughening penalties versus perpetrators of crimes against the Kingdom of Bahrain.
MP Abdullah bin Huwail said that some instigating leaders understood that silence was a weakness and that such instigating leadership was in the habit of seeking refuge abroad, and he urged for tougher penalties on instigators of violence and terrorism who defamed the Kingdom of Bahrain’s image and he also called for defining boundaries between freedom of expression and attacking national symbols or libeling others and he demanded for withdrawal of nationality and putting them under compulsory house arrest, freezing of their funds and incrimination of their exploitation of children in violence.
The First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives’, H.E. Mr. Abdulla Al-Dossary called for the need for enforcement of the law and urged for tougher penalties.
MP Ahmed Al-Mulla urged the Bahraini people to converge around the leadership and he demanded the taking of all means capable of drying up the sources of terrorism.
Shura Council member Syed Dhiya Al-Mosawi said: “Let’s put our hands in the hands of HM the King, pointing out that a moderate and unionist discourse and converging around the leadership is the right path to solve all problems, adding that HM the King has brought us back from exile and opened the scope of public freedoms.
MP Sawsan Taqawi suggested banning any assemblies or rallies that endanger national security, and highly stressed the government’s right to take all necessary measures to maintain security, including enactment of tough laws including a law for withdrawal of nationality from anyone indicted in a case of terrorism. She stressed the need to grant full powers to the security authorities in order to combat terrorism and violence, even if this means the declaration of a state of national safety.
Shura Council’s member Khalid Al-Thawadi said that terrorism knows no religion and everybody who has a religion wont’s accept to embrace terrorism nor to promote it, pointing out that the Kingdom’s safety and national unity have been undermined and that monstrous sectarian divisionism has been propagated and that we are responsible for our own security and the protection of our national economy, adding that the patience of all Bahrainis has been exhausted and that penalties against committers of terrorism and violence should be toughened.
Also, other MPs and members of the Shura Councils who spoke during the first part of today’s session concurred on the need to toughen penalties against outlaws who commit acts of violence and terrorism in order to protect the community from their evil and called for the enforcement of tougher laws.