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In the West/Islamophobic circles in particular they use the term Arabized, to describe how Arabs ‘ethnically cleansed’ during conquests, and forced upon people the culture & religion etc. I always associated that term with them, but I can see you mean it in a different context altogether. Of...

I have seen you use the term Arabized several times and it is portrayed as if someone has been Arabized they are not able to critique the politics & recent history of the Arab World. I am certain I have not made any anti-Arab posts that you mention, could you reference any? I have definitely...

What is the meaning of being ‘Arabized’? Is it just because you follow Islam, does that make you Arabized?

How was I hypocritical by saying we could emulate the political system of Indonesia? I’m not saying we should kneel at their feet and act like their rent-a-army. That is not the same as the ‘brotherhood’ of Gulf/Iran as some of our compatriots have done through the years.

He didn’t say anything worse than many of us say. We do need to develop our economy away from IMF & remittances.

Reported for needless offensive post.

I meant culturally & socially rather than as a state machinery. We don’t need to look outward to Iran, Gulf, or wherever for inspiration/brotherhood. We should be more like Indonesia, a culturally diverse nation that is just working to improve from within.

That is true that people want to associate with their own. I read that Japan prefers South-East Asians over Indians because they are culturally closer on a scale to them. Similarly Muslim non-Arabs would technically be preferred in Saudi ahead of Indian Hindus, Nepalese, but its still...

I see what you mean. But it betrayed the partition promise by Britain.

The Kashmir conflict is religious, not land, in essence. At the time of partition the British agreed that contiguous Muslim-majority regions were to become part of Pakistan, but Kashmir’s Hindu ruler refused to consider the wishes of the populous.

But race & ethnicity aren’t the same thing. Gulf Arabs can be black too if they have lineage from Africa, while Levantine Arabs look fairly white. How would the baby be able to tell if the adopted parent in Arab or something else? For the record I think we Pakistani are now a unique nationality...

They should open diplomatic relations but short of recognising them, I think this is what Indonesia has done.

Probably done by the Modi fanatics to incite a riot like Gujarat.

What about those 6m people that are effectively prevented from sharing in your wonderful innovations?

The US has no influence there anymore. They literally handed over Manbij airbase to Russia rather than Turkey so the trust is not there. But at least now the hypocrites who have fake tears for the PKK (but not genuine Kashmir or Palestine), Turkey has given them 120 hr to evacuate peacefully...

IK better not cave in to appease the liberal idiots.

Is Russia not becoming too powerful over Turkey though? 80% of gas imports, new nuclear power plant, S400 all under Putin’s whim over Turkish interests.

I am a fan of both Turkey & China and both sides have reasoned arguments. Turkey under Erdogan has made some blunders especially by being too condescending to the Arab leaders. However I think China doesn’t realise these Arab leaders are quite unpopular themselves. Turkish state has a lot of...

Israel does a lot worse including harvesting prisoner’s organs. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/israeli-pathologists-harvested-organs

Get real. The Arab League didn’t even fully condemn the Turkish operation, Qatar, Somalia & Algeria didn’t oppose it. The problem only is the Gulf countries, but they already tried to arm terror groups when they tried to overthrow Assad, but they are a bunch of ignorant rulers with too much...