آية الله قاسم رجل إصلاح و سلام( إستقامة، ثبات، سلمية) - قاسم، عيسى احمد - الصفحة ١١٢

high prices and suffered from the Authoritys repression and injustice because they called for good and denounced the immoral demanding their right and freedom and adequate living, reform, justice and respect of humanity.

The right way is real reform, its main pillar is to give the people the right to self determination and choose how they are governed, not to enforce and coerce that on them. Some are issues are titled with reform while they have nothing to do with reform. Other issues may carry or come a little close to reform but they remain marginal issues that will not change anything in the nature of the oppression and authorita rianism and cannot satisfy anybody demanding reform, because it lacks genius.

The absence of the desired reform caused all of these crises, the awful forms of injustice and human rights violations, whereas, its presence would have saved the country from the deteriorating situation. Long before the Arab Spring, the people, here in Bahrain, started their struggle aiming to bring the National Charters promise," the people are the source of all powers" to be implementedYet, there is no glimmer of hope. The real and genuine reform is still far. Theres no indicator of seriousness to go forward. We cant feel optimistic about this reform while brutality, ferocity and bloody confrontations of peaceful protests are going on. All this will only increase the steadfastness and will strengthen the peoples belief in the necessity of genuine reform.

Friday sermon( ٧٨٤ )/ ٠٢ th January ٢١٠٢

Any constitution must respect the will of the people

Today, reform, is based on a constitution that is