Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The re-arresting of Nabeel Rajab, Director of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, for his tweet, in which he described the Bahrain security institutions as an "ideological incubator" of ISIS, brought to light the dominant combat doctrine in this institution that forms "a passage" for several Bahraini fighters found within "ISIS" in the conflict areas in Syria and Iraq.

The Bahraini Ministry of Interior had already confessed on 5th September that one of its officers, Mohamed Isa Al-Binali, known as Abu Issa Al Salami, had joined ISIS.

The Ministry of Interior declared "it had already dismissed him for failing to attend work". Meanwhile, this was considered the first official confession about the affiliation of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria to the security institutions.

Question marks raised about Bahrain's participation in the international coalition against terrorism, led by the United States to fight ISIS, led to the acknowledgment of the Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, on 29th September, that there is at least 100 Bahraini fighters fighting alongside ISIS.

However, the government spokeswoman, Samira Rajab, stated on 30th September "this is all the information we have until now. There is no more precise information."

In this context, the video, of the lieutenant "Al Binali" with 3 of his friends, posted last week came to disclose a new era of the Bahraini Jihadi phenomena. Al Binali called his fellows in the Bahraini Ministry of Interior to follow him, join ISIS and leave their jobs in the Ministry. The officers in the Ministry know that "they are wrong" and they are still in their jobs for financial motives, added the defected lieutenant.

It is worth mentioning that the "Al Binali" tribe, which Issa Al Binali belongs to, is of the few Arab tribes which is allied to the Bahraini ruling family and whose members are allowed to take leading position in the Bahraini security bodies. The Al Binali tribe occupies the first place among the tribes and the Bahraini families in terms of providing the Jihadi organizations with a number of Bahraini fighters.

There are at least 6 fighters from this tribe who are actually involved in the battles in Syria and Iraqi alongside "ISIS". The tweets of these 6 fighters reveal that they are publically involved in the battles. However, until 2013, Turki Al Binali, who studied the Islamic law, had been visiting Bahrain as one of the prominent leaders in ISIS. Turki is responsible for mobilizing a number of Sunni youth from Busaiteen region and encouraging them to fight in Iraq and Syria.

At least two Bahrainis from the Bahrain Defence Force, Abdul Aziz Al Othman and his brother Abdul Rahman Al Othman, were killed in 2013 while fighting for Al Nusra front in Syria. Social media published their photos in (May 2013) in different regions in Syria wearing the Bahraini army uniform.

The Extremist "indoctrination" in the army institution

These evidences opened the door to a debate about the doctrine of the army institutions and the indoctrination of those working in it. In an attempt to answer this question, a group of books issued from the Religious Guidance directorate in the Bahraini Defence Force was unveiled in June this year. In the context of sectarianism practiced by the Bahraini army, these books degrade Shiites, who represent the majority of the Bahrainis, ideology and present it as Takfiri.

"The light of Sunnah and darkness of heresy in the book and Sunnah" book by the author Saeed Al Qahtani presented Shiites as Takfiris with reference to their religious beliefs in visiting the tombs and shrines of the Prophet Mohammad and the Imams in Medina in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran. In his book, Al Qahtani discusses that "going around the tombs to devour those buried inside" is among the acts of infidelity.

In his book, Al Qahtani describes the "Raafidis"; a degradation name used by the extremists to refer to the "Shiites", as heresiarchs and classifies them among the "misguided groups" with respect to their beliefs; including "Druzes, Ismaili, Alawites and others."

The book, which is being distributed to the officers in the Bahrain Defence Force, describes the Raafidi and other religious groups' celebrations of the Birth of the Prophet as "considering it a festival in imitation of Jews and Christians", noting that Muslims should be forbidden from imitating them." The writer also referred to the celebration of Isra and Mi'raj and that of 15th Shaaban.

The Religious Guidance directorate in the Ministry of Defence also printed another book on its own account for the same author, Al Qahtani, under the title of "The light of monotheism and the darkness of polytheism in the light of the book and the Sunnah". This book includes the same Takfiri implications and is one of the books being distributed to the officers in the Bahrain Defence Force.

Applied Models of the "Takfiri" indoctrination

The opinions of the Bahraini military spokesman, Khalid Al Buainain, on his twitter account @Al_Bu3inain provide "a clear sample for the military doctrine that is full of extremism acquired from this kind of indoctrination." These opinions also reveal the usage of the Salafist "Takfiri" lexicon in its stance towards the West, USA, Shiites, Christians, Jews and Alawites.

Al Buainain (who has been recently banned from tweeting and asked to delete all his tweets pursuant to an internal investigation) objected to the granting of a government license (in August 2012) to establish a Catholic Church. He said, "How will God grant us victory when we build temples for Shirk and pagans. How will God grant us victory when polytheism is being supported by the government fearing from saying that we are against the human rights?"

"We did not realize what America was planning for until the departure of Saddam, thus, we handed Iraq over to the Magi and America, in its turn, wanted to hand us over to the Magi," expressed Al Buainain.

However, the comments of the Minister of the royal court, Nasser bin Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, who is an officer in the Bahraini Army and the chairman of East Riffa club, give another sample that shows the Salafi incursion inside the ruling family. His twitter account @nasser_khalid is full of clear indications that reveal a fundamentalist configuration of the same national ideology adopted by "the Salafia Jihadia".

Nasser bin Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa says in one of the comments, "Bahrain is not for all, it is an Arab Muslim country pursuant to the Constitution" adding that, "We don't force the Magi (the Shiites) to monotheism, yet refusing their shirk is a duty and helping them to shirk in Allah is a great injustice". He continues in this context, "Not calling Sunnis and Shiites, but only Bahrainis is a Jahiliyyah naming set by those calling for shirk."

His twitter account has regularly been an announcing port in 2011, 2012 and 2013 to the "Equipping Ghazi (militant)" campaign that aims at preparing fighters to fight in Syria. Nasser also stated that "the door of equipping the fighters in Syria is still opened. Don't withhold yourselves." He also considered that "There is no good in Muslims' wealth and fortunes unless they assist their brothers in religion in the eastern and western wings of earth."

Until the middle of 2012, "Equipping Ghazi (militant)" campaigns, designed to finance and prepare the fighters, were done in public in the Bahraini mosques such as "Shikhan Al-Farsi Mosque" in Riffa, "Abu Hanifa Mosque " in Busaiteen, "Nadi Al-Sahel Mosque" in Al Hidd, "Sheikh Isa bin Ali Mosque" in Muharraq, "Al Esmah mosque" in Hamad town, "Galali Al Garbi Mosque", in Galali, in addition to other mosques in Isa town and Manama. These campaigns were launched under the supervision of Salafist leaders known for their deep relations with the leader of the Bahrain Defence Force, the field Marshal Khalifa bin Hamad, who announced in a talk on 16th June 2013 that "The Syrian revolution is the only one that can be referred to as people's revolution." Adding, "What happened in other Arab countries such as; Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Bahraini is not but a western conspiracy."

According to this information, the human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab's tweets came to shed light on what he called "the ideological incubator" for the Bahraini fighters. He, nonetheless, stated that "many of the Bahrainis who joined the ISIS militia came from the country's security institutions; these institutions were the first ideological incubator."

Perhaps this information opened the door for an official investigation that might have ended up with a big scandal regarding the involvement of the military institutions in broadcasting the extremist ideology and forming a starting ground to the extremist jihadists. However, because all of these happened in Bahrain, the government will only arrest Nabeel Rajab!

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