Works Minister Bradley Roberts provoked an angry response when he told the House of Assembly Wednesday that an Iranian businessman came from “a culture where you either get what you want or you string together a few bombs and throw them into a crowd.”
Mr. Roberts was referring to Confidential Press owner Mohammad Harajchi, who he accused of engaging in “terrorist attacks” by misrepresenting him (Mr. Roberts) in the newspaper.
The last person Mr. Roberts referred to as a terrorist in the House of Assembly was Tribune editor and proprietor Eileen Caron, following a series of articles last year on the Korean fishing boat scandal, which is still not resolved.
Mr. Roberts said, “Though Mr. Harajchi is years removed from a culture where you either get what you want or you string together a few bombs and throw them into a crowd; it seems you can take a man out of a culture but you can not take the culture out of a man.”
Speaking from Europe where he is currently away on business, Mr. Harajchi told The Tribune yesterday that he was “shocked” by Mr. Roberts comments.
“If he is a man of honour he should come and say the same thing outside of the Parliament.”
Mr. Harajchi is wrong. If Mr. Roberts was a man of honour he wouldn’t have said such rubbish to begin with.
Mr. Roberts is well known for hiding behind the immunity of Parliament to make personal attacks on people. But his ignorance and predjudice brings shame to the Bahamas government and the people of the Bahamas.
