Bullsh*t.
The people in KSA are of African (somalia, ethiopia) and Semite (bedouin/arab) stock.
Pakisanis are a branch of the Indo-Iranian people.
Yzd Khalifa did not mean it in a litteral way. That should be obvious for every single person since us Arabs and Semitic people are not from South Asia. If you cared to read his posts in this thread then you would understand that he referred to the great friendship between KSA, Pakistan, Saudis and Pakistanis. Nothing else.
Apart from that what a bunch of nonsense. Bedouins are Arabs who just happen to live a nomadic lifestyle. There are Bedouins or people of a Bedouin background in every single Arab country.
LOL, approximately 10 percent of Saudi Arabia's population is of African origin. So what? Do you have a problem with that? They are descendants of slaves or migrants who went to Arab lands in search for a better life. The only Ethiopians and Somalians (who are great people btw from ancient civilizations, especially the Ethiopian one who are a fellow Semitic people and the oldest African civilization) are recent immigrants who often do not have citizenship. Semitic civilizations are the oldest in the world and you seem to talk about it as it was a bad thing.
The population of KSA is diverse and since 1400 years ago the country has attracted Muslims from across the world. 90 percent are proud Arabs though. The Arabian Peninsula is moreover situated between Africa, Europa and Asia. In other words on the crossroads of the world.
Pakistan is a mixture of many different ethnic groups, hence Pakistani is not a name of a ethnic group but only a nationality. You have millions of Dravidian people, Indian Muslims (the Urdu speaking Muhajir people) who emigrated to Pakistan after it was created in 1947, apart from the Sindhis, Punjabis, Hazaras (Mongolian/Turkic people), Pashtuns, Baluch, etc. Very different people from Persians and Iranians.
Urdu is by the way the official language of Pakistan, heavily influenced by Arabic and it uses an Arabic inspired alphabet much like Persian.
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Regarding the topic then I have absolutely nothing against India or Indians. There are about 2 million Indian workers, Muslims as well as Hindus in KSA, not to mention the probably significant illegal number. I have encountered many Indians and I liked them.
Moreover India has a Muslim population of 200 million people. We should treat Pakistani and Indian Muslims alike and non-Muslims as long as they behave and contribute positively then they are very much welcome be it as workers, tourists or whatever.
Some of the comments of Indian members here regarding Arabs (I see that some of them have been deleted and one member is banned too) are primitive and an example of why generalizations are useless. I will refrain from commenting on those posts to avoid starting a senseless flamewar but I am obviously aware of the fact that those individuals are a minority among Indians, be they Muslim or Hindu.
Cheers.
