Malik Athamena, writing in Al-Hurra, is disdainful of Arabs who are jumping on the George Floyd bandwagon while they remain racist and sexist in their own countries.
Among the hypocrites he calls out are:
- - Palestinians, who discriminate against Christians
- - Egyptians, who oppress Copts – and women
- - Lebanon, where African domestic workers are treated like slaves
- - Gulf countries, where domestic workers from India, the Philippines and elsewhere are treated like dirt
- - The entire Muslim world where Shiites and Sunnis hate each other
- - North Africa where the Berbers are oppressed, and there is still actual slavery – and some 19 Arab countries have some form of slavery or human trafficking, today
- - All Arabs, who live in police states but pretend to care about US police brutality
He admits that the US has a racism problem, but at least it discusses it openly and makes efforts to change it, unlike Arab states.