It seems that Bahrain (as in government and MPs) are just not content with being called sectarian but are now adding a new adjective to their resumee
xenophobic
I was really shocked when I saw this in yesterday’s Akhbar Al-Khaleej [Ar] in a teeny weeny space on its front page. It reads that the Ministry of Interior has banned all Bangladeshi nationals from gaining work visas in Bahrain.
The reason for this, you may ask, is that a Bahraini citizen Mr Mohammed Hassan Al-Doseri (R.I.P) died from severe wounds to his neck after a Bangladeshi worker in a metal workshop struck Al-Doseri with a metal grinder after a quarrel between the two men over a price difference of 500 fils.
The story caused huge waves in the media and all the local newspapers have written updates to the story on a daily basis. Our fine Islamist MPs shared their two pennies and called for the ban of all Bangladeshis from entering the country and eventually kicking out all of them from the country!
How despicable is that [Ar]!
Have they forgotten that Bangladesh is actually a Muslim country, and that the 90,000 strong community (apparently the second largest expat community in Bahrain after India) are some of the people who wash their cars, iron their thoubs, cut that greasy shawarma and wrap it with passion and the taste of sweat, fix their A/C compressors and cut their hair and well.. not trim their beards!
Banning 90,000 people for the acts of one labourer is insane.
People even argue that “Well Kuwait did it why not us??”
In 1999, Kuwait imposed a similar ban to Bangladeshi nationals after one worker strangled his 90-year old sponsor to death and stole his money, only to be lifted a year later in 2000.
I don’t know what’s with it with our government and knee jerk reactions, first we had the 40 million dinar, then the banning of Molotov cocktails the day after the death of policeman Majed Asghar and now this!
Well Done! All this coming from a country who’ve just recently been voted into the UN Human Rights Council..
I’m getting sick of this and to end on a lighter note, enjoy this Etki Bangladesh Dance
Well Yagoob,
To be frank, Bangladeshi’s seem to have an alarming rate of crime here compared to other nationalities. Bangladesh itself seems to be doing nothing to modernize their citizens more. We cannot ban ex criminals from entering the country because they can easily change their name and passport. And as I heard, the Bangladeshi passport is one of the easiest to forge.
So here is the formula:
Exceptionally high crime rate + lack of ability of controlling said crimee rate + lack of any positive control by the Bangladeshi government = a ban.
I hate it but it seems logical in this light.
Yes, I agree, it is silly. There is some rationale behind it as Redbelt might have added, but that should mean more strict procedures when giving out visas, not banning a nation. But since when did you expect anything clever coming out of the people in charge here?
PS. Dude, im sorry, but this has got to be downright the most disgusting image building sentence i’ve read this year, considering im a big shwarma fan:
“cut that greasy shawarma and wrap it with passion and the taste of sweat”
What Ammar, you didn’t know?
Anyhow, if it’s a temp. ban until more efficient procedures are introduced with active efforts from Bangladesh, then OK with me.
Accountants in a losing company will try to stop companies bleeding money first then try to make them profitable. A similar approach must be adopted here.