“The presence of a high number of foreigners took a dangerous dimension a decade ago with the mushrooming of projects to have high-rise buildings and create amazing and strange islands. Many foreigners have come, have settled here and, in the process, have set up their own private economy. For instance, the laundry man looks after the clothes of the man who serves food to the man who sells mobile phones. It is a private economy by and for the foreigners settling here,” he said during a Bahrain TV talk show.