A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched
Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and
Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the
women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of
women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the
elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a
Jewish man and a Christian
woman (the latter the first
woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a
Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.