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From the little I have read and seen Bahrainis are follwoing in the footsteps of Iran and Egypt.

Here us a video where the mother of a martyr killed during the protests is giving a message to the puppet government. Listen carefully to her words.

With all these revolutions, there is a large number of self-immolations.

Is it permissible according to islamic law to do so given the desperate conditions?

Muhammad Mahdi wrote:self-immolations

I dont think hurting oneself let alone killing one self is permissible by Allah

i havent read about any such incidents, could you post if you have?

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Actually, the Tunisian revolution started with a self-immolation. This was followed by the protests and numerous other self-immolations around the Arab world.
There have been over 20 such deaths.

The Iranian Revolution took more than a year to complete and led to the death of so many. If the self-inflicted death of one has the power to overthrow so many governments and change the entire arab world, wouldn't it be justified?

Wat is self immolation

immolation means killing or offering as sacrifice.
self-immolation means doing it to oneself.

What started the Tunisian revolution was a man who was humiliated by a female officer and so he went to a govt building and burnt himself alive in front of an audience. People were touched, horrified by this and started protests against the govt