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Translation of an article whloh appeared ir» tht"Al-Aylam"
Newa-oaper, In its Issue No, 26, dated Bnsrah 11th March 1930
oorresponding 11th Shawal, 1340, under the following heading-
DO THEY WANT TO DE3TROY THE EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT IN BAHRAIN?

A good educational movement has dawned in Awal iBland (Bahrain),
thio wae five years ago. We haYe rejoloed as other also rejoiced
for this good movement in an Arab country which aonneots uo with ita
people the moBt strongest ties of relationship. We thanked the Bhalnhs
of Bahrain and its residents for thio good enterprlae, we never thought
that the British Government whioh made itself aa a protootor of
Bahrain Island would booome one day as an enemy to education and would
try to ultimately destroy the educational movement, this was our idea
aa wo knew that the Brltleh Nation io ono of the moBt advanced nations
in the world and truly knew the value of eduoation, it wae unreasonable
that it (Britifch Government) would commit the offenoe of oppressing
the eduoation whloh it eanotify in its oountry and worships it as it
worship God. Our idea was not right in thiB oonneotion aa we have
hoard with gxeat and profound sorrow and regret that the British
Consul at Bahrain had began to lnterefere with the Bahrain Educational
affairs, his lteroferenoe with these affairs has delayed the progress
of eduoation in that Arab oountry, it is feared that if hia suoh
intereferenoe has continued it will completely destroy the educational
movement of that oountry. The worst of what we heard of the intereferen
of the abore Consul la hiB enforooment on the teaoherB to force the
etudentB to learn English lessons from the very first olass ( first stands
of the sohool) whioh the administrator of schools (Mudlr A1 Madaree) had
refused to aooept auoh an unjust demand,^aloo the most worst of what
we henrd that thio refusal ''as fir.rnf*od the above Consul and heboe issued
bis orders for the deportation of the ndmlniotrator (Mudlr) Professor
Cthomnn Al-Horani and oo^io of h1s oomp^nlonu vho ••/ere actually deported
from Bahrain. V’our days ago they rnssod on us hero in Basroh on their
way to Syria, it in understood that '.he professor s>nd Ms oompnnions
will line a grout stir in the Lyiinu news-Papers (I'rcuc) about the
outoornoy of the British Consul rt .Jahrnin and his onemity to ovory
refciPi v/hicn the Arnbs .vioh to 1 natal in their towns.
l*' faufrf
o or solveb in our turnM.be course followon by the repr osontatlve
of the British Government nt Bahrain and reouost the ’vioe English people
to Justify the Arabs of Bahrain who were the first people of the Arabian
Peninsula who spread to thorn l to English people) tholr hands of love
and friendship.
■>d. A PAINED Al.AB.
AHS.
25-10-40.

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