Hugh Fitzgerald, Frontpage Mag, November 8, 2019. Andrew Harrod Hence the 18-hour days, seven days a week, and the single meal each day. Human trafficking carries a jail term OR a fine, or both. In other countries, if a foreigner commits a crime, his visa is impounded, and he’s deported back to his country (maybe after a jail term, depending on the crime). I arrived in KSA for the first time in Riyadh, stepped into the terminal, what did I see? Muslims could perhaps also experience such a revelation from Allah. on this odious system.”, SOURCE: South Africa: 1880 to the Present Saudi Arabia has abolished its controversial Kafala system. One of the many forms of abuse on children in Saudi Arabia is … Consider this: the first thing you have to do in these countries is surrendering your passport. And the conditions which they endure are scarcely distinguishable from slavery. Vietnamese domestic workers are entitled to classes on language, skills and culture but the sessions are poorly executed, say the workers. Too bad that Malcolm X also chose to ignore the fact that Islam wasn’t a religion for Black supremacy, as he and his comrades preached: it’s a religion for Arab supremacy, including supremacy over Blacks. In 2004, there were reports of Philippine female domestic workers raped; however, there were no reports of prosecutions. As is well known, slavery was formally abolished in Saudi Arabia as late as 1962, and then only after terrific pressure had been applied to the Saudis by Western governments. Al-Turki's wife, Sarah Khonaizan, who plead guilty to reduced state and federal charges, is to be deported from the US. The Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the long-running armed conflict in Yemen continued to be implicated in war crimes and other serious violations of international law (see Yemen entry). by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, After nearly two months, I was like a mad person.”, According to statistics from Vietnam’s labor ministry, there are currently 20,000 Vietnamese workers in the kingdom, with nearly 7,000 working as domestic staff for Saudi families…. Another case involved Princess Buniah Al Saud, niece of Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who was arrested in Orlando, Florida and accused of pushing her Indonesian maid down a flight of stairs. Like Dao, she said she was given one meal a day and worked 18-hour shifts. Nope? It also operates facilities for abandoned children, including trafficking victims, in Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina. Islam’s total lack of regard for basic human rights may be seen in the affront of slavery. Yet it has been almost impossible to bring employers to justice for such crimes. ‘Opening a Window’ Trawri finished Maymouna in 2000 and sent it to the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity, where it won an award in 2001. They round up the “slaves” (domestic workers), hold out the promise of decent work and pay which, once those they traffic in arrive in Saudi Arabia, is simply ignored. He is the author of a number of bestselling You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours. 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You’d think that Bangladeshis would wise up and apostatize en masse in protest against such discrimination. If countries like Saudi Arabia stopped purchasing our treasuries, the US would have to either simply print money without the fig leaf of bond purchases (hyperinflation) or drastically cut back on spending (social security, Medicare, Medicaid…all the geezers would be voting for Bernie Sanders). He persuaded King Saud to abdicate in his favour in 1964 with the help of other members of the royal family and his relative, Grand Mufti Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh . Although slavery had been outlawed in for £1,000 each, more than three-times the going rate-per-head His followers continue to do so today.”. The decision was announced on Wednesday by the Kingdom’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development. Unfortunately the aforementioned nationals have no choice. The Kuwaitis and the Emiratis have been difficult masters, too, but the conditions of domestic workers appear to be especially harsh in Saudi Arabia. Religious leaders have preached in mosques sermons about the evil of abusing employees. Her phone has been taken away and Sang is only able to contact her every two to three weeks, “when her employer feels like [allowing her]”.
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