Extremist Islamists may only be one small part of a wide cross-section of disenfranchised Libyans who could no longer bear the tyranny of Gadaffi, but they pose the question whether reactions to the Arab Revolutions are ever entirely innocent of double standards.
As Najaf, the institution that comprises Iraq's highest-ranking Shia clerics, announces it would stop meeting politicians until Baghdad supplies better services to the people, we see the country's complex tension between its religious and political authorities.
How the British Army struck a disastrous deal with the Mehdi Army that turned Basra into a lawless city.
The media and politicians have done Iraq a great disservice by highlighting the overt sectarian identity of the oppressor and the oppressed. It must not make this same mistake with Bahrain.
