Middle east countries boycotting Indian consumer goods for Insulting the Prophet of Islam

[Novus ordu seclorum]

If there is no consequnce they have no reason to stop doing what they are doing. Which is why the protest and boycotts by some Arab people is ineffectual.

Some states showed great displeasure. Kuwait removed Indian products. What did Bangladesh do.

 

[Bengal71]

Some states showed great displeasure. Kuwait removed Indian products. What did Bangladesh do.

Displeasure, protest doesn't mean anything. The trades continue and India is not affected.

BD did nothing and we will do nothing.

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

Displeasure, protest doesn't mean anything. The trades continue and India is not affected.

BD did nothing and we will do nothing.

BJP national spokesperson was suspended and BJP Delhi spokesperson resigned or expelled because few Arab governments took a stand. That is immediate effect.

 

[Bilal9]

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/suspension-of-spokesperson-sets-off-internal-churn-in-bjp/article65500077.ece/amp/

It has had more effect than America putting India on the religious freedom watch list.

I see a disconnect between the party leadership and the average eight-pass half-educated young BJP/RSS cadre/panda who feels empowered to be a free-wheeling hatemonger, not barred by any internal BJP restraint. These blabber-mouthed IT cell idiots put BJP on the US "religious freedom watch list". We should be Thanking them.

But the BJP leaders running things at the helm see a different picture when their ambassadors get called into Gulf State foreign ministries for a verbal thrashing (note verbal) and bans on Indian products. They also get to ponder the real-life bhikharee labor situation and what those remittances (and possible crude oil price changes (or even outright bans) mean to a oil-dependent and remittance-dependent country like India...

Now that BJP has been forced to start disciplining their 'fringe' elements, there will be some disillusionment and some desertions happening even from the extreme ranks. There could be more fringe elements and movements created, a la "proud boys" style like in the US who will be 'disciplined' further as mainstream BJP cleans up its act and dissociates itself from some of the extremists. Remains to be seen how it will pan out for the BJP. I am buying some large tubs of Popcorn in anticipation, heh heh.

 

[Bengal71]

BJP national spokesperson was suspended and BJP Delhi spokesperson resigned or expelled because few Arab governments took a stand. That is immediate effect.

Negligible effect. Those spokespersons will be replaced with more nice talking ones but do you think that is going change the BJP agenda against the Muslims? So, no effect.

I don't want to drag on the discussion but this kind of protests, condemnations are ineffective as seen many times in the past. Muslims protested and boycotted French products because of Charlie Hebdo, so what happened to France? Nothing, Muslims don't even remember boycotting French products, there was not trade embargo with France. They know Muslims will vent for a few months and then everything will be business as usual, the Indians learned from them. Unless and until real actions are taken such as kicking out hundreds of thousands of their workers so they lose tens of billions per year, everything else is ineffective.

 

[MH.Yang]

You should open the markets for Indian pharmaceutical and IT companies where we're quite competitive than you guys

The drugs made in India are all imitations. Indian medicines that have been granted patent rights can be sold in China. Indian generic drugs without authorization can also be sold if you are not afraid to be sued by those pharmaceutical companies for infringement.

There are no barriers for other Indian goods to enter China.

As for India's IT industry, are there any powerful IT companies in India? You can check IT companies in India. They are all small software outsourcing companies or customer service companies. If you want to do customer service in China, do Indians know Chinese?

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

Negligible effect. Those spokespersons will be replaced with more nice talking ones but do you think that is going change the BJP agenda against the Muslims? So, no effect.

I don't want to drag on the discussion but this kind of protests, condemnations are ineffective as seen many times in the past. Muslims protested and boycotted French products because of Charlie Hebdo, so what happened to France? Nothing, Muslims don't even remember boycotting French products, there was not trade embargo with France. They know Muslims will vent for a few months and then everything will be business as usual, the Indians learned from them. Unless and until real actions are taken such as kicking out hundreds of thousands of their workers so they lose tens of billions per year, everything else is ineffective.

You cannot ask Arab governments to do what Bangladesh is unwilling to do. France is not interested in boycotting, lynching, mass murdering, genociding French Muslims, raping women even in their graves. These statements and actions have come from BJP political base and leaders. France is persecuting Muslims, depriving their religious rights, opinions and practises because they are mostly of foreign origin with whom they have a history of brutal colonization. White French Muslim converts do not face the same treatment and I have seen a comment to that effect from a real French Muslim.

 

[Bengal71]

You cannot ask Arab governments to do what Bangladesh is unwilling to do. France is not interested in boycotting, lynching, mass murdering, genociding French Muslims, raping women even in their graves. These statements and actions have come from BJP political base and leaders. France is persecuting Muslims, depriving their religious rights, opinions and practises because they are mostly of foreign origin with whom they have a history of brutal colonization. White French Muslim converts do not face the same treatment and I have seen a comment to that effect from a real French Muslim.

I am not asking Arab governments to do anything. Why are you reading things I didn't write and what has it got to do with BD. The thread is about middle eastern protests, I just mentioned it does not affect India and gave reasons why it doesn't affect India. That's all. I don't want to branch off the discussion in ten directions.

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

I am not asking Arab governments to do anything. Why are you reading things I didn't write and what has it got to do with BD. The thread is about middle eastern protests, I just mentioned it does not affect India and gave reasons why it doesn't affect India. That's all. I don't want to branch off the discussion in ten directions.

You said boycott by Arabs is ineffectual which is not a true statement. It had an immediate effect with the BJP. Nobody is saying, thus hate will suddenly disappear.

 

[Bengal71]

You said boycott by Arabs is ineffectual which is not a true statement. It had an immediate effect with the BJP. Nobody is saying, thus hate will suddenly disappear.

Read my posts again. Cosmetic effects don't count, real effects I am talking about. No real effects on the ground, no loss of trade or money inflow into India from Arab or any other Muslim country. Anyway, I am moving on from this discussion. Thanks.

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

Read my posts again. Cosmetic effects don't count, real effects I am talking about. No real effects on the ground, no loss of trade or money inflow into India from Arab or any other Muslim country. Anyway, I am moving on from this discussion. Thanks.

You said Bangladesh did nothing and will do nothing. Arabs did do something and as far as I am concerned it had an effect.

 

[Adonis]

Some states showed great displeasure. Kuwait removed Indian products. What did Bangladesh do.

Does Showing displeasure means anything?...I mean any impact?...even Pakistan showed displeasure......The elephant flapped the ears and moved on.....

 

[Indos]

You said Bangladesh did nothing and will do nothing. Arabs did do something and as far as I am concerned it had an effect.

Some Muslim dont believe on Muslim Brotherhood thing, just let these folks believe what they want

As for us we believe in what Quran and Hadith said

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

Does Showing displeasure means anything?...I mean any impact?...even Pakistan showed displeasure......The elephant flapped the ears and moved on.....

Yes, it shows the power of the state led by civilian leaders. Many Pakistanis think militants are more powerful than the state.

 

[_Nabil_]

Iranians have a strong link to Zoroastrian customs. Nauroz and other festivals are celebrated even by conservative Muslims.

In Pakistan, we also observe Hindu customs, especially in our weddings and birthdays, but we like to deny that fact.



I have met people from Karachi (like myself), Lahore, Balochistan, Abbotabad, etc. but I don't know if any ethnic group dominates.

Migration to Australia has always been among the easiest in the world for technical people without lots of money for an investment visa. You can self-sponsor without a job offer if your skills are in the official in-demand list.



Yeah, they were Afghans.



The region of South Asia called India, not the country, used to be one of the richest on the planet in terms of GDP before the British Raj. Ancient empires used to conquer as far away as Cambodia and Indonesia. Going further back, the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan and eastern India was on par with Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations.

So the region does have a history of past greatness but, as I mentioned, that is not a guarantee or entitlement of future greatness.

History tell us that Indians were continuously been slapped by Persians, Greek, Mughals, British, Turkish, ... You name it.

Cambodia and Indonesia, come on!!! We are talking about wars against other civilisations not fisherman villagers.

Indians were and still are very bad warriors, only good to fight civilians or poor countries.