In an article, Abdullah Al-Madani, an Al-Ayyam newspaper journalist, who specializes in Middle East-Asian affairs, wrote on how a Bahraini of Persian descent once protested against his family name being listed under the Ajam (Persians/foreigners) of Bahrain.

Ismail Akbari "BuBassam" wrote in the bio of his personal Twitter page a right-wing statement that reveals a lot. "You don't deserve to live in a homeland you don't protect," he tells a virtual reader. It seems that he and his wife, a writer in Al-Watan newspaper, Sawsan Al-Shaer, have given themselves an authority that no one has given them to manage the vital population policies of the people of Bahrain. According to them, whoever "does not protect" the homeland, "does not deserve to" live in it is necessarily "you O Bahraini", which is evident from the use of the second person point of view.