Friday, February 5, 2010

Pakistanis suck up to Middle Easterners

Given the situation of labor class Pakistanis in Gulf Arab countries where they are often underpaid, not even paid for months, abused, subject to false accusations and racism this important question arises once again: Why are Pakistanis so vigorously pro-Arab and pro-Middle Eastern?

The answer lies in a discomforting fact: Religion. Few are willing to face this fact. Because the last Prophet in Islam happened to be an Arab, many Pan-Islamist Pakistanis, particularly Wahhabbists simply worship Arabs.
This goes against Islamic teachings which openly stress Arabs and non-Arabs are equal in the eyes of the creator.

A fact to note is that Arabs identify themselves as Arabs, Turks as Turks, Persians as Persians. Even the ethnic minorities of Turkey, the Arab states and various ethnic groups of Iran identify with their countries before their religion. And even when they don't, they still identitfy with their individual ethnic group before their religion.

It's only the Pan-Islamist Pakistanis who see themselves as Muslims and identify themselves only as such.

These ignorant Pakistanis don't see the outright racism of Arabs against their people, nor do they realize Arabs would never want to include themselves with Pakistanis in their political movements.

You can often spot Pakistanis in pro-Palestinian demonstrations weather in Arab or Western countries. At times you can see many of them, they're not difficult to spot at a pro-Arab demo.
But never have I seen or heard of Arabs or any other Middle Eastern national at pro-Kashmiri/Pakistani demonstrations.

While Pakistani pilots volunteered and risked their lives in Arab-Israeli wars, no Arab pilot was given permission by his government to engage in direct combat against Indian pilots in the Indo-Pakistani wars.

It just doesn't end there with the Arabs. During the Iran-Iraq war right after the Shia Islamist regime in Iran took over, a lot of Arab and Western countries supported Iraq (Syria sided with Iran I believe), while North Korea and Pakistan were the only known countries to lend military support to Iran.

For instance North Korean missiles were shipped to Karachi and then transported from there into Iran on land through Balochistan under the escort of the Pakistan Army because the Gulf was too dangerous with ships being bombed and sunk from both sides. Once stationed in Iran, these missiles were used to hit Iraqi targets.

Yet today many ignorant and arrogant Iranians ignore this fact and falsely boast that Iran "fought alone" in the war without outside support.
Pakistani scientist Dr Abdul Quadeer Khan even put his life at risk by foolishly sharing nuclear technology with Iran, another fact deliberately ignored by most Iranians.

Instead, the current Iranian regime maintains good relations with India, sponsors protests against the treatment of Shias in Pakistan, when they have never protested against the oppression of their fellow Kashmiri Muslims by India or when Iran is known for it's discriminatory treatment of it's Sunni population. Iran has even lend India airbases within it's borders.

Imagine the reaction by the Arab and the Iranian regimes if Pakistan opened full diplomatic relations with Israel and allowed it to use Pakistani airbases. It's hypocrisy.
Yet all over the Internet and public debates, Pakistanis can be found everywhere, staunchly defending Iran in enriching it's nuclear program.

Another common phenomenon amongst Pakistanis is to claim Arab, Persian and/or Turkish ancestry. Some go as far as to claim direct descent from the Prophet Muhammad himself.
As I explained in another post, there was minor mixing with Arabs, Turko-Mongols (not the ones from Anatolia) and Persians. However, the majority still remain the same.

As the haplogroup maps below show, the distribution of the Semitic Haplogroup J1 (represented by the mutation M267) is very insignificant in Pakistan:




Even the Mughals, who were mostly Mongoloid, belonged to Haplogroup Q and it's subclades, invalidating Pakistani claims of Mughal ancestry.
Sadly enough there are even movements in Pakistan to make Arabic and/or Farsi the national language because some Pakistanis have decided to make Lashkari the scapegoat for all the linguistic tensions in the country and to "bring Pakistanis closer to their Muslim 'brothers,'" which I decried and refuted such bias against Lashakri.

Having good relations with countries in our region is important for political and economic benefits. But this unconditional love and sacrifice for Middle Eastern people will take us Pakistanis nowhere. It will gain us nothing and will only bring us losses.
As an example Pakistan supported the Arabs during the Arab-Israeli wars and sold Iran missiles to aim at Israel.

Israel has been (probably in retaliation) selling India sophisticated weapons technology and actively been training Indian troops in Kashmir. Had Pakistan stayed out of other peoples' conflicts Israel might not have sided with India.
Even in early 2006 Pakistan's government gave three million dollars to the Palestinian Authority when there are millions of Pakistanis sitting on the streets starving and living in worse conditions than many Palestinians.

This money could have gone to improve living conditions for Pakistanis at home (such as providing contraception) or even gone to Pakistani workers in Gulf countries who go unpaid for months and rely on bank loans to survive. Some even commit suicide to escape the unbearable slave-like conditions created by their greedy Arab employees.

Somewhere this inferiority complex towards Middle Eastern people has to stop if Pakistan is to progress as a country.

7 comments:

  1. @Zohair. Great comment except are you sure that Pakistani Pakhtuns think of Afghans as their brothers? I thought it was the other way around.

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  2. Hi!I like your post and views very much..I totally agree your point..I need your post and anylsis on very important issue that" Why Afghans hate Pakistan"..Despite the fact that Pakistanis hve sacrificed thre every thing for this nations..Our present problems are also due to them..We fought on there place to capture there country from Russian..We r having burden of this nation from last 30 Years..Also Pakistan have more than 45 Millions Pakhtun But these afghan still think Pakistanis dre enemies

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  3. Dear Adhi if you search my other posts in this blog you'll find two posts I covered on Afghans. A third one talks about immigrants. The two posts on immigrants are dated October 2010 i think and the other on why Pakistan supported the Taliban is dated January 2010. I hope you find those posts useful.
    Regards.

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  4. Pakistan should side with Israel and turkey..much better than this lowly Arab.

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  5. Pakistan and Turkey are on the same side in many issues. But Pakistan should generally avoid taking sides unless it's vital to it's interests.

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  6. Pakistan should not side with Israel, just for reasons of morality-nothing to do with ethnicity.

    Anyway great piece. I am disgusted at Pakistanis trying to mix with Arabs ahead of Indians, even when such a large proportion of Arabs treat Pakistanis as if they are inferior. This also seems to be an issue in America, where Pakistani student organisations are more likely to hold events with Arabs than Indians or anyone else. However in the UK I've found that Pakistanis are much more united with Indians and Bengalis, so there's hope.

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    1. @Dan Your comment has two major flaws in it. 1) Pakistanis are no more "Indian" or "Bengali" than they are Arabs, Most of our connection to Indians and Bengalis is common linguistics.
      2) Most "Pakistanis" who feel close to Indians and Bengalis are Muhajirs, Indian Muslims who migrated to Pakistan during independence. Even to this day they cannot decide on their identity. You can learn more from my post on the Pakistani identity crisis.

      Thanks for your comments and for reading my post. Glad you liked it.

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