A Bahraini MP has called for expelling every Bangladeshi working in the country after one became a murder suspect. According to the Daily Star, reproducing AFP: The government must "put a timetable for the deportation of Bangladeshi laborers from Bahrain after their repeated involvement in murders and other crimes," Akhbar Al-Khaleej daily quoted MP Abdul Halim Murad of the hard-line Salafi bloc as saying. Bangladeshi Charge d'Affaires Saif al-Islam said that the estimated 106,000 Bangladeshis working in Bahrain should not all be made to pay for the alleged action of the mechanic suspected of the murder. "We told the Bahraini authorities to put this Bangladeshi national on trial and punish him if he is convicted," he told AFP.
I wonder if Halim actually realizes how utterly and unforgivably racist his remark is. Something tells me he wouldn't apply his own twisted ideology in the case that America decided to expell every Bahraini because one 'allegedly' carried out an attack in the name of 'Islam'.
A while ago my dad told me that with a severe rice shortage in Kuwait, the government has decided that Kuwaiti's had the priority in buying the rice.(I didn't ask him about his source). Has anyone told the Kuwaitis where rice comes from? While Thailand is the biggest producer, a lot of it from the same countries their workers come from, countries like India, Egypt or Bangladesh...