Bahraini pro-government newspapers have filled their pages with expressions of mourning and grief over the commander of Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) terrorist organization, Zahran Alloush, who was killed in a Russian airstrike on Friday (December 25, 2015) alongside a number of assistants.
A reporter for Akhbar Al-Khaleej, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh, deemed in his article on Sunday (December 27, 2015) "the assassination of the Jaish al-Islam commander in the Damascus countryside, Zahran Alloush, a couple of days ago as a practical and concrete confirmation of the suspicious Russian role in Syria."
"What is very strange is to broker a UN sponsored deal in Yarmouk camp to secure the withdrawal of ISIS militants and their families, while civilians and moderate opposition leaders continue to be bombarded," he added. Alloush had previously appeared in a video attacking Shiites whom he called "Rafidis" promising to kill them and establish a new Umayyad state in the levant (Shaam), saying: "Just as Banu Umayya crushed your heads in the past, the people of Ghouta & Shaam will crush them soon."
Perhaps his stance against Shiites is what encourages hardline religious figures close to the Bahraini regime to glorify and mourn him.
The former Muslim Brotherhood Bahraini MP, Mohammad Khaled, posted tweets describing alloush as a "hero" before retweeting Saudi writer Khaled Al-Mahawesh's tweet in which he praised Alloush for his fight against the Shiites.
Meanwhile, Nasser Al-Fadala, former Muslim Brotherhood MP, expressed his grief over Alloush's death with poetic verses.
The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist movement in Bahrain is allied with the ruling Al Khalifa family in order to curb the opposition's aspirations towards putting an end to the Al Khalifa family's monopoly over power and transitioning to a democratic rule.
These hardline groups have organized over the past years fundraising campaigns in Bahrain to support terrorist organizations in Syria, and the Bahraini authorities have facilitated the entry of extremists into the island kingdom, including the Syrian cleric Adnan Al-Arour.
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