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On Thursday, demonstrators held rallies in several towns and villages across the country, including Shahrakan, Karzakan, Dar Kulaib and Sanabis.

Protesters in Shahrakan and Karzakan villages hit the streets in the early hours of morning. They burned tires and blocked roads to protest the recent arrests of women activists.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Roula Talj, a Beirut-based political analyst, to further talk over the issue.

The video offers the opinions of two additional guests: Abbas Al-Omran, from the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and former assistant professor at the University of Bahrain, Colin Cavell.

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Another development which happened a few days ago was the arrest of another prominent human rights activist: Nabeel Rajab, over, what they said, insulting tweets.

It seems like the Bahraini regime is increasing the targeting of human rights defenders by these Saudi-backed forces. What do you make of this, given the fact that they are claiming reforms are in progress and yet this is an example of what they are doing?

Talj: Before I answer your question, I am like many Arabs who watched the revolutions in the early days with a romantic feeling, believing in the rights of the people throughout the Arab world, to ask for their civil rights.

However, today I am afraid that those same people throughout the Arab world, including Bahrain, Syria, Egypt, everywhere, are being used to fuel that hatred between the Sunnis and the Shia in order to lead to a civil strife between the different sects which will lead to the division of the Muslim world.

Having said that, of course I do not appreciate the crackdown of the Bahraini demonstrations, especially that in Bahrain unlike Syria, the demonstrators are being extremely peaceful and they have not threatened yet the national security issue.

So far, I think the Bahrainis backed by the Saudis feel safe from US and Western punishments but the thing they do not know yet the main target for the Western world is to crack down the regimes in the [Persian] Gulf countries.

Of course today they would like to use them as tools to weaken the Muslim world as such; however, the main target of the US and different Western countries is to crack down the Wahabi regime throughout the [Persian] Gulf countries.

And I think the Bahraini game is an extremely dangerous game for the [Persian] Gulf countries and I am kind of surprised how come they have not seen that yet, the Saudis and the Qataris.

Press TV: Interesting that you say that. I am trying to make sure that I am digesting what you said there, Roula Talj. Are you saying that it is the same countries, these Arab countries that are using the sectarian issue in order to divide themselves?

Or are you saying that perhaps it is the US that is doing this? Tell us where this has emanated from where we can see clearly it being on display in Bahrain.

Talj: I do not think the Arab countries are dividing themselves. I am pretty sure today after watching the whole post-revolutions in the Arab world, I am kind of sure that there is a force, an outside force, trying to use the sectarian strife in order to weaken and divide the Muslim world.

And unfortunately, our people are extremely emotional and they are an easy target for any conspiracy and I have my own reasons to believe it is a Western plan to divide and weaken the Muslim world, yes.

Press TV: Roula Talj, put it into perspective for us, what you did somewhat prior. When it comes to Bahrain and when we look at the region in the Middle East, when we look at the revolutions and the uprisings, doesn’t it in a sense weaken the stance of for example the US, of other countries that are allied with the US in the way that the US and its allies have dealt with some of the revolutions?

Again we can refer to Egypt; we can refer to Yemen and also the message that they are sending through their actions regarding the opposition.

Talj: From my point of view, what we are going through nowadays in the world and specifically what is happening in the Arab world is a proxy world war between the West known as the traditional West, Europe and the US and the new powers rising in the world which are the BRIC counties.

Unfortunately, this war is happening in the Arab world and we are once again the victims of some geopolitical changes that are going to happen, no matter in the next decade or so. One thing I am convinced of is the US could tell the Bahrainis, the Saudis, the Qataris that are their allies and best friends but it means nothing.

Once the US is your friend, you need to be very scared; if the US is your enemy, you should be safe and this has been the history of all regimes and all powers that were allied with the US. So I am not impressed at all by all the good and nice talks of the US regarding Bahrain or elsewhere in the [Persian] Gulf countries.

So the main target, in my opinion, of the US is to weaken the Salafi and Wahabi regimes throughout the Muslim world that Frankenstein has created in order to combat the Soviet Union which is Al-Qaeda sponsored by the Wahabi rule in Saudi Arabia.

Today the US would like to get rid of this Frankenstein with the least cost possible. So at the end of the day, once more, the US is going to get rid of its old allies but with a different weapon, by dividing and creating strives throughout the Muslim world.

At some point, the Russians and the new rising powers in the world are already and you can see it Syria and we will be seeing more and more efforts to stop what is happening in Egypt and elsewhere. Also for Russia, there is an old vendetta to be taken from the Saudis and the role they played in dismantling the Soviet Union.

So Russia is immediately concerned by what is happening as well as China and what might happen with the Salafis growing numbers in Asia. That is why I am not at all impressed by all the support the Bahrainis and the [Persian] Gulf countries are getting from the US.

I think dramatic changes are going to happen in the few next months. The US will be very busy with their campaigns and France changed president and they will probably change policies towards the Middle East.

No matter what happens, we will see dramatic changes in Bahrain but also in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Press TV: On the positive side, is that what you mean?

Talj: It depends from which point of view you are talking; positive changes in my view but negative changes for the kingdoms.

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