What Sources Of Tension, New or Old, in the Middle East are Revealed by the Film? Video 2

    There’s tension between the Bahrain dictator and the people within Bahrain. People within Bahrain are protesting against their dictator because they want democracy, they want the freedom of speech. Bahrain has open fire and has hanged those who protest. There’s also tension between the United States and the people of Bahrain. People within Bahrain are irritated with the United States because the U.S. is just standing by and not doing anything about the violence towards the protesters. America won’t step in because they have a good relationship with Bahrain’s dictator, and they don’t want to ruin that. If they ruin that relationship then they will lose the oil that they are getting from Bahrain. There’s tension between the people of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia took 1,000 troops over to Bahrain and tried to get rid of the protesting. There was no sign of Saudi Arabia coming, they just did it.
    There’s two kind of muslims, Sunni and Shiite. The government doesn’t like Shiite, Sunni Muslims are very wealthy, Shiite are not. My guess is that Shiite are asking for a better living style, and because they are protesting, the government does not like them. The government has destroyed Shiites’ holy books and people have come up missing. Sunni people can not do anything about their family members or friends’ disappearing. If they ask, they are punished, if they go to U.S. troops, they’re more in likely brought to the police and are killed. What’s going on in Bahrain makes me think of a food chain. If one thing goes wrong, it goes chaotic and falls like dominoes. This is why the U.S. won’t get involved because they would lose oil and things would just keep going down hill.