There were more then a million foreigners of which a large part from the Arab countries, aswell GCC and Egypt, GCC mostly for the university education.
2003.. this is war dude, after 2003 there was a change of regime, no law, everything abolished, no one can expect any fairness in such situations, just look at Kuwait 1991.. the locals took jobs from expats.
The expats in Iraq were treated fair, ask any. Egyptians waiting for payments has nothing to do with bad treatments, its because of the wars, many of them enjoyed their stay.
Iraqi jews were forced out to Israel, Israel even has organizations to make sure "Aliyah" happens, it is part of Zionism to do this.
Did you know Israel flew Yemeni jews to Israel secretly ? they would even do bombings such as in Iraq to get jews migrate to Israel.
Kurds are a different chapter, would take too much text to explain that 1.
I agree about the black people, besides many Arabs disrespect them and still call them abed/abd, this is not just Iraq.
Some laws must be equal, you cannot beat up someone for being a foreigner and get away with it, this still happens in Kuwait and the other small states, they can get away with many things.
Most came from Egypt from what I know of. That is besides the point since the migration to UAE is unprecedented in our part of the world.
You talk like everything was fine. Sure, probably most of it was, JUST LIKE IN THE UAE, but there were also elements of mistreatment, lack of payments, racism etc. at that time too. I know this since I happen to have relatives in Iraq. I am not ignorant about the country and you know this very well.
Immigrants are always a vulnerable group of people that is nothing new.
Well, we know this but there were also massacres on Jews in Iraq etc. The Yemeni Jews history I know. I just gave you one example.
I am not going to say that there is no racism in the Arab world or the Middle East among non-Arabs. Because there is. I just don't think that UAE has a track record that is particularly bad compared to others.
Regarding the Blacks then this is somehow also the case in KSA or Yemen. They are largely the most poor community and lack a presence in the politics, society etc. Although that is slowly changing at least in the KSA.
I agree that most basic laws should be equal and they actually are for most part. But being a national also gives you benefits that non-nationals will never have. Even in the West too. You know the differences between being a national in the Netherlands and a non-national. Same in Iraq. Things such as buying land, voting, social benefits, protection from the state etc.
Well, same way as rich landlords can get away with treating their poor workers badly in Iraq or Pakistan. Also that is a minority that is doing that. Most immigrants have a much better live than in their homelands. Many even fully integrate, marry and get children. That is just the reality.
Also we all know that the Middle East or Arab world/Muslim world is not fully democratic so why are we assuming that everything will be just like in Western Europe where everything is neither perfect btw?
We can say a lot, some non-Arabs can generalize here and there and make the same 4-5 threads a year about some local UAE citizen behaving badly while always ignoring some of the bad habits of the immigrants themselves such as criminal offenses etc. (again a minority) against immigrants and then generalizing whole groups of people, countries etc.
Anyway no point writing more. I think that I said what I wanted to say on this topic. Let the non-Arabs have a field day for all I care.
