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05/31/2008: "Bahrain: Islamic MP calls for expulsion of Bangladeshis"

Manama, 26 May (AKI) - An Islamic parliamentarian in Bahrain has called for the expulsion of Bangladeshi immigrant workers after one of them was accused of a gruesome killing.

"We need to expel all the Bangladeshi workers that are in our country," said Abdel Halim Murad of the hardline Salafi bloc according to a report in the local newspaper Akhbar al-Khalji.

"We cannot tolerate the way in which these people continue to repeat crimes," he said.

There are about 200,000 foreign workers in Kuwait and their presence in the country is often a source of protest from the rest of the local population.

[ Non white countries turn on their minorities without a peep from the "international community". ]

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