... Not sure where to begin but I will make it short and quick or at least try to.
I am an Arab nationalist since I have ancestral and other ties to more than just Saudi Arabia of the Arab countries. Like most Saudi Arabians and many Arabs have actually. But I am indeed also a Saudi Arabian nationalist. Most of us are that. You are obviously clueless about KSA. Unlike your country India, KSA was never a Western colony. The current rulers of KSA, the House of Saud, already ruled most of KSA 200-250 years ago! Long before Britain even had stepped foot on the Arabian Peninsula let alone the ME.
My nation is home to the holiest of towns, ancient towns, villages and cities (among the oldest in the world), historical places, immense natural beauty of all kinds (mountains, highlands, valleys, deserts of all kinds, steppes, volcanic areas, tropical areas, 1500 mostly tropical islands, one of the longest and most beautiful coastlines, modern cities etc.).
My country is the cradle of Islam and my people created 3 of the 10 biggest empires the world has seen to date and countless of kingdoms, sheikdoms, sultanates, emirates etc. on 3 continents and also being center of many of those. My country is home to one of the oldest civilizations on earth (Dilmun) which was a trading partner of the nearby Sumerians (who claimed ancestry from Eastern Arabia as written by them in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh) and the Indus Valley Civilization across the Arabian Sea. My country was an integral part of the first major international trade route in the world called the Incense Route that made our country one of the richest in the world together with Yemen. That was almost 3000 YEARS AGO. Also the Indian Ocean Trade.
List of largest empires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dilmun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Incense Route - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indian Ocean trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My country is also the original homeland of the Arabic language. One of the most important languages in human history and the 4th most spoken language in the world. The language of Islam moreover and the Noble Qur'an.
Arabic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My country is also home to proud and fiercely independent people and most of my country was never conquered by any outsider other than fellow Arab and Semites as very few other places in the world. Moreover my country was the original homeland of many of the earliest Semitic peoples.
Yes, my country has indeed been blessed with having some of the biggest natural resources in the world and we thank Allah (swt) for that. But it is not always a blessing. Sometimes it is a curse. And yes, we had periods in our history of hardship etc. Like anybody else. We have nothing to envy ANYBODY.
Do you think that you can get that through your head now?
KSA never claimed to be a Western democracy but if you start preaching about Gaddafi's Libya or Saddam's Iraq being democracies let alone the Al-Assad child-murderer then you are obviously insane. Moreover we have our own INDIGENOUS system of rule while you are just following the ideology of a German Jew.
Read the definition of Baathism and Arab nationalism and come back to me saying that an Indian like you has any connection to that. Unless you claim to be an Indian of Arab ancestry in such a case you are entitled to believe in that ideology and it would make sense. Otherwise not. Just like I could never adopt Papuan, American or whatever nationalism.
Yes, I dislike communism as that ideology is opposed to Islam and my political values which are that of conservative-liberalism. Nor do I in any way look up to North Korea, Cuba, the Soviet Union or China during Mao etc.
Do you seriously think that the King of KSA (who comes from a Royal/Ruling family that has ruled for centuries) cares about what a peasant like Gaddafi that came from nowhere and suffered from insane egomania (His King of Africa nonsense and dozens of other complete idiotic behaviors) says? Probably the "US puppet" bullshit forgetting that all your political heroes (including those in the Arab world) were Soviet puppets.
Are we clear now?
