Firstly I want to touch upon Pakistani involvement in Middle Eastern affairs in the past.
As many know, this is not the first time Pakistan has been involved in the Middle East. During the Arab-Israeli wars, many Pakistani pilots volunteered to fight alongside Arab pilots. They were not sent by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) or by the Pakistani government, but by their own free will.
Many Pakistani Pan-Islamists naturally saw this as a heroic act. Sadly for them, most people of the Middle East are unaware of this "heroic" act and could not care any less for Pakistanis.
I had maintained all along that Pakistan should keep out of Middle Eastern affairs. But it was explained by the other Pakistanis to me that these pilots went by their own free will and the Pakistani government was not involved.
One Pan-Islamist Pakistani went as far as to ask me who was I to judge the decision of the pilots. Firstly, these pilots took a great chance with their lives by engaging in combat with the Israelis. Also these were amongst Pakistan's best pilots and could have been killed.
Thankfully they all made it back alive, but had they not, we would have had a hard time replacing them when needed for any upcoming war with India or some other hostile power.
That's one negativity about letting our fighter pilots, who have an obligation to their country first, giving themselves away like some free fighting tools.
Secondly with the fact that these men went voluntarily without any involvement of the Pakistani government or military, what's wrong with it this time?
None of the alleged Pakistani mercenaries in Bahrain are going at the behest of the Pakistani government. They are fighters hired by private firms, so why are Pakistanis protesting this time?
Because it's the same as I wrote in my other posts. Pakistanis live in worship of Arabs and other peoples of the Middle East. They endorse our pilots going and risking their lives for them, but not to control them or fight them.
It's funny how Pan-Islamist Pakistanis are rallying for Arab rights by putting on their hijabs and demonstrating their Arab worship. Do they not know these uprisings in the Middle East are for Arab human rights, not meant for the Pakistanis whom are regarded by many racists in the Arab world as "subhumans."
Racism amongst Middle Eastern nations, both Arab and non-Arab goes back centuries. Why is it a surprise that Saudi Arabia was the last country to abolish slavery? Why is it a surprise much of the outcry in the Arab world, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan is saved for Palestinians and Iraqis but not for the innocent black Muslims being persecuted in Sudan by Arab racists?
Do these Pan-Islamist Pakistanis not realize while Arabs are demonstrating and rioting for their own human rights, most couldn't waste even a second thinking about Pakistanis.
When was the last time we saw a pro-Kashmiri/Pakistani rally anywhere in the Middle East? Why did we not see a single protest in the Arab world or anywhere in the Middle East when General Musharraf suspended Pakistan's judiciary?
Why did we not see any protests against the American government in the Middle East over Raymond Davis' crimes in Lahore?
Simply because Pakistanis are not seen as brotherly Muslims by Middle Easterners and are in the same category as the third world Africans, Muslim or not.
The Arab populations are rallying for their own rights, not for yours. These same Arab citizens have had racist attitudes towards Pakistanis for decades and regularly attack and beat non-Arab migrants particularly from Africa and Asia.
These are the kind of people who's rights you're rallying for. Pan-Islamism has completely blinded out Pakistanis to the realities of Middle Eastern and Afghan racism as I explained in my other posts.
Also mentioned in another post of mine, whenever I address racism from Middle Easterners towards Pakistanis, the typical response I get from fellow Pakistanis is "but not all of them are like that."
The use of Pakistanis to control anti-government movements in Bahrain and elsewhere has not prompted the same question inside the minds of Arab racists who hate an entire nationality/ethnicity due to the actions of a few.
What they are dealing with in this case are former soldiers, not mere shy, helpless civilians from the working class.
This has only amplified their racism and they shamelessly assualted a Pakistani worker as an act of "vengeance."
As the news article states, the man had nothing to do with the security forces but was attacked anyway because his crime was being the same ethnicity/nationality as the mercenaries being imported to control them.
What Pakistanis don't realize is that the revolts in the Arab states are for Arab rights. Not for the "subhuman" Berbers in the North African states or the Negros of those countries.
The same is true for the Gulf Arab states. The people rallying there are rallying for their own selfish interests, not for the "subhuman" expatriates from Africa and Asia. The attack on that Pakistani worker is just one of many unreported examples of Arab racist attacks against Pakistanis.
But as usual, everything that occurs in the Middle East is twisted and depicted by Pakistan's Arab-worshiping Pan-Islamists into an issue of the entire Muslim world.
It's also interesting to note the strong disapproval coming from many in Pakistan's Shia minority as their masters in Tehran have disproved of anyone meddling in their proxy wars.
Many of Pakistan's Shia minority live in worship of Iran and Iranian society. They make pilgrims to Iran and often live in imitation of Persians.
In another post of mine on Pakistan's identity crisis, I explained in detail how Pakistan's Pan-Islamitization tears apart our people into Arab-worship mainly by our Wahabbi segments and Iranian-worshiping by our Shia segments.
While mentioning Arab and Middle Eastern racism, it is not so clear cut as many try to portray it. Especially Arab relations with African Negros, both Arabic speaking and non-Arabic speaking.
While the history of Arab racism and brutality against black people (in this case I mean people of Saharan African origin and not people in general of black complexion) goes back hundreds or even thousand of years, there are cases of race mixing according to what I read.
Also the employment of many blacks in Arab society such as law enforcement to pilots in the aviation industry should be noted.
If one is a poor black worker from a Subsaharan African country, he/she is usually treated with disrespect. But if it is an Arabic speaking African, the hatred is much less, but still there.
At the same time a black person carrying citizenship of a Western country will also be treated with less hate than of one carrying his/her own nationality.
Also notable is that Arabic speaking blacks/negros often imitate other Arabs when it comes to racism against non-Arab speakers. The Arab-Negro relationship is difficult to explain and too long to discuss in this post.
But with all that being written, I want to go back to my original question. Should Pakistani mercenaries be in Bahrain? I state yes, but for a different reason which is to protect our citizens from racist attacks by Arab and Persian supremacists.
This could also be a good chance to regain the trust of our Baloch population which constitute much of the Pakistani expatriate community in the Gulf but are now under the threat of Arab/Persian supremacists.
Many of them are in the law enforcement and one was even killed. The recruitment of Pakistanis could be of great assistance to the Baloch population working in the law enforcement there.
Though they might not be hired for all that but to suppress "human rights," it is not really such as I just pointed out. Human rights in the Arab world means human rights for Arabs from aggression by non-Arabs in Palestine and Iraq. It is not for the "subhuman" Asians and Negros, Berbers and other non-Arabs.
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