Weekly Event (Friday – 2 January 2026):
The Most Dishonest Book of 2025… The Tyrant’s “Advice” to Salman
At the beginning of December 2025, what is known as the “Royal Court” in Bahrain issued a book entitled “Principles and Values of the System of Governance in the Kingdom of Bahrain”, presented as a new document that reaffirms the Al Khalifa family’s insistence on falsifying the country’s history and portraying their occupation of Bahrain as a “conquest.” The book lays out the foundations upon which this occupation was established, turning events and facts completely upside down—making it, by all standards, the most dishonest book of the year 2025.
In one of the most blatantly absurd falsifications, the book portrays the killing of Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa (1869) as a “martyrdom in defense of the country’s independence and territorial unity,” despite the fact that he was killed by his own brother, Mohammed bin Khalifa. After the two brothers struggled over power, Mohammed went to Kuwait, after which the Al Sabah family intervened to reconcile them. However, Ali bin Khalifa violated the pledge of safe conduct granted to his brother. Mohammed then assembled an army, fought Ali, and Ali was killed. This lie forms the axis around which all the distortions in the book revolve. It can rightly be described as a mountain of falsehoods bordering on farce—beginning with the claim that Al Khalifa rule is founded on Islamic Sharia, that they invented consultation (shura) in Bahrain, and that they sought to establish democracy two centuries ago, were it not for the “opposition of foreign powers.”
The book also publishes the “will” written by the tyrant Hamad to his son Salman. The will is dated March 1999 and advises him to fear God, uphold justice, keep the company of scholars, fulfill the needs of the people, refrain from oppressing them, combat corruption, and safeguard the comfort of the population.
From the moment this will was written until today, the tyrant has done the exact opposite of what he advised his son to do. During his rule, poverty increased, the demographic structure of the homeland was manipulated, values and virtue were eroded, corrupt figures and criminals rose to prominence, and the country was dragged into normalization and complete subservience.
Thanks to these “achievements,” Hamad has—by merit—earned the most infamous titles in the history of Al Khalifa since their occupation of Bahrain: he is the “lying king,” the breaker of covenants, the shedder of blood, the violator of honor, the destroyer of mosques, and has become a model emulated by his sons in all of the above.
