Discrimination of Muslims in OIC countries
Ambassador Mahmud Hassan's article (DS Feb 19) on the 12th OIC summit points out well the old adage that 'talk is cheap'. Never mind weightier international issues like the Middle East conflict and Syrian uprising, even much closer to home most OIC members act in a manner that is deplorable. Nowhere in the world are Muslims treated with more legalized prejudice than in oil rich countries surrounding the Gulf, as any Bangladeshi, Pakistani, or Indian Muslim worker on those shores well knows. While the OIC raises a ruckus about supposed apartheid in Israel, the fact remains that in Dubai entire residential neighbourhoods are officially off limits to dark skinned Muslims, while Saudi Arabia officially pays white expatriates more than non-white Muslim ones for the same job with the same qualifications. Lectures about the unity of the Ummah would be funny coming from the OIC except that officially sanctioned discrimination is not a matter of joke. I am sick and tired of oil rich bigots lecturing to anyone about brotherhood and apartheid.
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