Role of Women in Bahrain 2011 Uprising

Mona Almoayyed, Managing Director of Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons, talks about the role of women in the 2011 uprising.

Almoayyed does not see any significant role played by women in the uprising: “No I really don’t see the connection between the opposition and the women’s uprising in Bahrain. Basically the opposition was unhappy with certain things in Bahrain and they wanted an uprising. Women were part of it, not because they wanted to ask for equal rights or anything like that,” she admits.

Furthermore, Almoayyed explains the reasons for the uprising as she argues: “I get very upset when I see international opinion about Bahrain talking about human rights and that the government is not respecting the opposition. If these things happen in the west and a person throws Molotov cocktails at policemen, what would happen? On many YouTube videos from Bahrain, we see the police are running and the opposition is behind them with metal rods and burning bottles. They are quite aggressive.”