Saudi slavery watch

[Bengal_Tiger]

**** THREAD TO MONITOR SLAVERY IN SAUDI AND OTHER ARAB STATES ***


Background

- Saudi Arabia outlawed official slavery fairly recently, and the traditionalist and flawed interpretation of scholastic Sunni Islam "permits" this institution, whereas from the Quranic text it can be argued that this practice is anachronistic and abhorrent.

Though slavery does not officially exist in Saudi Arabia and other gulf regimes, in practice it exists with millions and millions of Asian workers living in slavery in Saudi Arabia and other countries in what is perhaps the biggest mass slavery system in the world complete with regular torture i.e. physical abuse, verbal abuse, rape and sometimes even murder.

The Saudi regime have done very little to combat slavery in Saudi Arabia and to outlaw it.

The Saudi media (controlled by the Saudi regime) on the contrary vilify hardworking foreign workers and portray Saudi citizens as "suffering victims" *entitled* to cheap foreign labour.

With the emergence of social media it is becoming more and more problematic for the Saudi "King" Salman, and his top henchmen e.g. "Prince" Nayef, "Prince" ibn Salman and others to manage their slavery system.




NEW "SHOCKING" VIDEO FROM SAUDI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcfPc5JTJY

0.1 million views in Youtube as of now in about one day.


I say "shocking" because this sort of behaviour is actually normal in Saudi Arabia but is just becoming more known now due to social media.

The gang of three, Salman, Nayef and baby Salman will probably care very little for the foreign worker being tortured but will care for the damage done to the reputation of their state.

[Bengal_Tiger]

- However Islam is free of this brutality and inhumanity and condemns it. Allah has told us of the nature of the desert Arabs in his holy book the Quran. Rather than praising the original Arabs, the bedouin as people to be emulated rather He, the Almighty has said the opposite and said rather than exemplify Islam i.e. belief, they exemplify the opposite, disbelief.

- Even if we go by traditional Islam we know that the noble messenger of Allah, the best of creation, Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was far removed from such behaviour. We read in traditional accounts (problematic as they are) that he had a servant Anas ibn Malik for many years and never once lost his temper with him.

We know he was a gentle, humble man who used to live a modest life of poverty.

We know he was not from the "A'raab" the desert/gypsy Arabs but "madani" (city-dweller).

May Allah protect Muslims everywhere and non-Muslims from the evil of extremism and its facilitators and sponsors including in America and elsewhere. May Allah spread true Islam, the Islam of the Quran and the noble messenger, not the pseudo-Islam of the zanadiqa, of the mutatarifeen.

May Allah help oppressed people everywhere be they Muslim or not-Muslim.

May Allah end the slavery system in the Arab world.


May Allah bless our beloved prophet Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and his noble family and companions and his ummah and all the messengers.

Ameen thumma ameen.









Not to verbally abuse others, let alone physically abuse them.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Hundreds of Mauritanian women trafficked to Saudi Arabia trapped in 'slavery'

#Workers
Local activists said Mauritanian women are being subjected to sexual harassment and physical abuse while working in Saudi Arabia




A file photo shows a group of Mauritanian women in the capital Nouakchott


Rori Donaghy and Linah Alsaafin
Wednesday 30 September 2015 15:43 UTC

Last update:
Thursday 1 October 2015 16:36 UTC

More than 900 Mauritanian women have been trafficked to Saudi Arabia in 2015, where they are trapped working in jobs they did not sign up for, a local activist has told Middle East Eye.

The women believed they were going to be employed as nurses or teachers, but on arrival in Saudi Arabia they were forced to work as domestic workers in homes across the kingdom, Elmehdi Ould Lemrabott, who is based in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott, told MEE.

“Some of these women who objected were subjected to rape attempts, sexual harassment, physical abuse and starvation – as well as being confined to tiny rooms,” Lemrabott said.

Saudi Arabia began letting workers from Mauritania into the country at the beginning of 2015. Riyadh’s Ministry of Labour advertised jobs specified for men (drivers, waiters and domestic workers) and jobs specified for women (nurses, primary schoolteachers and domestic workers).

The opportunity attracted a high number of applications due to Mauritania’s high unemployment rate - currently above 30 percent - and widespread poverty, which is experienced by more than 40 percent of the North African country’s nearly four million people.

A black market quickly sprang up to take advantage of local interest in Saudi-based jobs, according to Lemrabott, which the government did not pick up on.

“A group of people opened secret employment offices not in accordance with the law and away from the sight of authorities,” Lemrabott said. “Women are being trafficked one by one secretly so the authorities do not take notice.”

Before the women travel to Saudi Arabia, they sign contracts that promise them a salary of 1,200 Saudi riyals per month ($320), more than double the average national wage in Mauritania. The contract includes a stipulation that the employee must repay their travel costs once in Saudi Arabia.

“This allows the manager of the employment office the right to receive the employee’s salary for the first few months of their employment until the money is repaid,” Lemrabott told MEE.

The salary is often much lower than the one originally promised, Lemrabott added, as on arrival the women have their identity documents seized and contracts “replaced with one that effectively turns them into slaves in the households they work in".

MEE spoke to one woman who was trafficked to Saudi Arabia, but after a brief phone call she said that she was too scared of the repercussions to be quoted in the media.

Many of the women have desperately spoken out about their suffering, primarily to a new campaign group set up in the Mauritanian capital called the Popular Initiative against the Violation of the Haratin Women Workers’ Rights in Saudi Arabia.

The Initiative, of which Lemrabott is a member, says the workers in Saudi Arabia claim that they have been forced to work 18 hours a day with no breaks and are not granted time off at weekends or paid overtime. Others have accused their Saudi employers of physical abuse and sexual harassment, including attempted rape.


The initiative is named after the Haratin ethnic group, which comprises 40 percent of Mauritania’s population. Many Haratins are descended from slaves - a practice abolished in 1981 and only criminalised in 2007 by Mauritania – but poor access to education has led to reports some have returned to their former masters out of necessity and been returned to slave-like conditions.

For the Haratin women who have sought a better life in Saudi Arabia, but been thrown into allegedly abusive conditions, they have fallen off the radar for Mauritanian authorities.

The workers are not registered with employment offices in Saudi Arabia, which means Nouakchott is not aware of their presence in the kingdom.

“This is due to the fact that the process is done individually and illegally by anonymous offices [on the Mauritanian black market],” Lemrabott said.

Out of the nine million migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, almost a third are undocumented. In 2013, the Saudi government embarked on a two-year long deportation campaign in which as many as half a million undocumented migrant workers out of nearly three million were kicked out of the country.

Despite migrant workers constituting over half the workforce in Saudi Arabia, they remain vulnerable to exploitation and abuse by their employers and are not protected by labour laws.

Many of these workers suffer from excessive working hours, wages withheld for months or years on end, food deprivation, and severe psychological, physical and sexual abuse.

When, or if, Mauritanian authorities try to confront alleged abuses of their citizens in Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch has warned it may be a significant challenge for such a poor country.

“It is cheaper for Saudi Arabia to import labour from countries such as Mauritania, who are poor and do not have the resources with which to protect trafficked citizens,” said Adam Coogle, Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch.

“Whereas, with somewhere like the Philippines, we have seen the government successfully negotiate minimum salaries and improved working conditions for their citizens who are working in Saudi Arabia.”

After numerous reports of Filipino workers being abused in Saudi Arabia, authorities in the southeast Asian country moved to demand Riyadh uphold a minimum wage of $400 per month and safeguard living standards including a weekly day off and the right for workers to keep possession of their passport.

Although Saudi authorities banned all Filipino workers for one year, they eventually ceded to the demands.

For now, the newly established initiative to protect Haratin workers is calling on Mauritanian authorities to intervene and have the women trapped in Saudi Arabia returned home. A demonstration was recently held in front of the Saudi embassy in Nouakchott, but Lemrabott said the response was negative.

“It was suppressed violently by riot police, and a number of activists from within the initiative were arrested,” he said. “And the authorities have not responded to any of the demands.”

“The government is turning a blind eye to the issue,” he added, saying more protests are being planned for the future.

Local trade unions – including the General Confederation of Workers of Mauritania and the Najda Organisation for Slavery – are also trying to pressure authorities into shutting down illegal traffickers. The unions have also called for an official process to be established protecting people who want to work in Saudi Arabia.

The International Trade Union Confederation, which receives daily reports on trafficking from their Mauritanian counterparts, has called on Nouakchott to confront the issue immediately.

“Mauritania needs to act immediately to free the women who have been trafficked to Saudi Arabia and trapped in domestic slavery there, and to stop the traffickers and bring them to justice,” Sharan Burrow, ITUC general secretary, said in a statement.

The Saudi and Mauritanian embassies in London did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.

- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hu....zpxlc379.dpuf


This was a few days ago, but the article below shows that the Mauritanian government has decided to stop sending "maids" (female slaves) to Saudi Arabia.

Allahu Akbar! Alhamdulilah!

[Bengal_Tiger]

Mauritania stops sending maids to KSA




Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. (AFP)


Six months into the start of recruitment of domestic workers from Mauritania, the government in Nouakchott has banned sending its workers to the Kingdom due to pressure from a number of internal parties on the government.

While nearly 1,000 household workers have arrived in the Kingdom from Mauritania since the start of the recruitment process in March, Nouakchott authorities have started stopping workers at the airport and seizing their passports to preventing them from traveling to the Kingdom.

According to a source at the Saudi Embassy in Nouakchott, some parties in Mauritania have been pressuring the government to stop sending female household workers to the Kingdom, making the ban an internal affair in Mauritania.

Meanwhile, a source at a recruitment office said Mauritanian authorities approached recruitment offices in end-August, asking them to stop receiving applications from Saudi agencies.

Sources say unlicensed offices in Mauritania are still receiving requests from offices in the Kingdom. However, the lack of compliance by these offices prompted Mauritanian authorities to take additional measures in mid-September to prevent the travel of domestic workers from the airport

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/mauritania-stops-sending-maids-ksa-055954497.html

1. These expatriate workers from Asian and African countries in Saudi Arabia and the GCC states are slaves, because:

a: Their movement is controlled by the Saudi regime and before that their employers or families they are working for.

The restriction on movement means that the worker is bound, chained to that particular house thus in effect a slave, as a free person can travel to where he wishes.


b: There is no guarantee they will be paid and in fact Saudis are known to withhold pay, thus gaining free slave labour.


c: If there are any problems between a worker and a Saudi, the Saudi will prevail as the understanding of Saudi society is that these foreign workers are there merely to serve the Saudis rather than being fellow human beings with basic dignity.


d: The Saudis will find it increasingly difficult to maintain their slavery system.

The Saudis are slowly, slowly running out of money but with an expanding population.

The problems they are having with their slavery system is symptomatic of these long-term structural factors.



Foreign female worker beaten in Saudi Arabia where rape and torture of workers is common.

The economies of Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines and even Bangladesh are improving thus less need for their workforce to travel to Saudi Arabia to be beaten, raped and even killed.

Also at the same time there is increasing social media awareness of the Saudi slavery system with its mass rape and torture and human rights activists in these countries are successfully lobbying for an end to mass supply of Asian and African slaves to Saudi Arabia.



SLAVE MASTERS: The three that collectively run the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia with one of the most notorious mass slavery systems in the world today.

[Karachi]

they still have harems and real slavery going on, just hidden

[Bengal_Tiger]

they still have harems and real slavery going on, just hidden

They are animals and disgusting.

The good thing about hundreds of thousands of Saudis being sent to North America and Europe for university education is that to a degree they learn to behave like normal human beings rather than the backwards tribal barbaric society they are part of - nothing to do with Islam, the bedouin Arabs are condemned in the Quran.

[Bengal_Tiger]

* Saudi employer offers his Sri Lankan housemaid for sale online


Tue, Aug 4, 2015, 01:04 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.




A Saudi employer has offered his Sri Lankan housemaid for SR25,000 in an advertisement he published on a local auction website, Emirates 24|7 newspaper reported.

According to Sabq News of Saudi Arabia, the employer placed an ad saying that he wanted to end the contract with the 30-year-old maid from Sri Lanka and that she wants to work for another employer in the Gulf Kingdom for one more year before returning to her home country.

He said in the advertisement that the maid is good in dealing with children.

"He said he is ready to give her up for SR 25,000," the paper said without naming the employer.

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_15B/Aug04_1438673650CH.php

*The "maid" was basically the property of the Saudi thus she could be "sold", in other words she was a slave.

Saudi Arabia operates one of the biggest forms of mass slavery in the world.

[Bengal_Tiger]

VIDEO: Saudi man caught in the act by wife's secret camera


#Variety
A hashtag discussing the video of a man caught with the maid has generated tens of thousands of shares on Twitter in Arabic



A screen grab shows a Saudi man kissing a woman believed to be the family's maid (YouTube)

MEE staff's picture

Monday 5 October 2015 12:43 UTC
Last update:

Saudi Arabia, Viral Video, Twitter

A video showing a man in Saudi Arabia caught on secret camera while fondling and kissing a woman believed to be the family's maid has become the top hashtag on Twitter.

The video, according to social media users, was recorded covertly by the Saudi man's wife and was the highest global trending hashtag on Twitter on Monday morning.

The video has sparked a storm of discussion online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=K6z5AaakjLg

The hashtag, #SaudiWomanCatchesHusbandCheating, has attracted more than 25,000 mentions in less than 12 hours.

Despite issues surrounding adultery generally being considered a taboo subject in the Arab world, the discussion has seen people share experiences of finding their husband caught in similar compromising positions.




- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/vi....i6fMuyo0.dpuf



Comment from the website:

Stephanie • 5 hours ago

"Cheating"? More like sexually assaulting.

"Maids" in Saudi Arabia and the gulf are to clean and do housework but also often to fulfill sexual needs.

Saudi Arabia has a ban on new Bangladeshi workers but offered Bangladesh to end this ban if they could provide the Saudis with 0.5 million "maids" later to be followed by recruitment of workers for normal jobs, the deal (attempt at blackmail) has fallen through as women in Bangladesh have shown no great interest in being "maids" in Saudi.


[MENTION=2329]Karachi[/MENTION]

[Bengal_Tiger]

Saudi Arabia: Employer chops off hand of Tamil Nadu woman for trying to escape torture

By Sachin Jose| Updated: October 8, 2015 18:15 IST



Tamil Nadu woman tortured in Saudi Arabia



Tamil Nadu woman Kasturi Munirathnam tortured in Saudi Arabia

[Latest: India seeks action against Saudi citizen who chopped off Tamil Nadu woman's hand]

A woman from Tamil Nadu -- working in a Saudi household as a domestic help -- has been hospitalised in Riyadh in a critical condition after her right hand was chopped off by her employer, as per TV reports.


Kasturi Munirathnam, who has suffered severe injuries on her body and limbs, has been admitted to Kingdom Hospital, Manorama News reported.
Content-break



The woman, who hails from North Arcot near Vellore, had reached Saudi Arabia two months ago. In August, Kasturi was first taken to Damam and later shifted to a house in Riyadh, where only women stayed.
She was reportedly burdened with heavy workload and was not even allowed to have telephonic conversation with her relatives in India.
When Kasturi managed to get help from a Tamil Nadu native, she was locked up inside a room and was subjected to mental and physical torture ever since.
Once when she received death threat from the women, she tried to escape through the balcony of her room. However, when she got out, her hand was chopped off allegedly by her employer.
Currently, the Tamil Nadu wing of Indian Social Forum is taking care of the woman. The Indian embassy officials have met her and extended all support to her.
The investigation, which was carried out by Al-Sahafa police, has been handed over to Saudi Investigation Bureau, reports said.
Kasturi is the breadwinner of her family, which consists of her ailing husband, three daughters and one son

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/saudi-arabia-employer-chops-off-hand-maid-tamil-nadu-trying-escape-torture-649735

2,764 comments on Reddit about this at time of writing


JarkAttack 4003 points 15 hours ago

Saudi employers raping the employees, Saudi employers mutilating employees, Saudi authorities crucifying political dissidents, Saudis funding extremists which kill thousands
Is this the ****ing kingdom of Mordor?:


[–]ActsJuvenile 482 points 14 hours ago*

Story time: I backpacked through Asia and have many friends in the region. A Filipina girl I know lost her house in Typhoon Haiyan, so she signed up to be a maid in Saudi to support her parents and siblings. Her maid training essentially amounted to "Don't say no".
Her employer had two teenage sons. These guys started pestering her for sexual favors every time their parents stepped out of the house. When she refused them, the boys would throw things around the house, make a mess, and threaten to complain to their dad that she was cursing at the boys.
Eventually she had to give in, and boys were using her as their sex toy. She seemingly aged a decade during her 2 year contract. The teens would occasionally slip her chocolates and $20 to keep quiet. I was shocked to hear this, but apparently this is quite common there.
TL:DR; Many Saudi teens' first sexual experiences are forced/bribed sex with foreign maids.
Edit 2: Here is a video of a Saudi harassing his maid: https://twitter.com/nasser22662/status/650956486533881856


[–]mistersalman 190 points 13 hours ago

As a Pakistani Muslim, this level of a superiority complex really pisses me off, but what makes me angrier is when other Pakistani/Indian Muslims buy into that bull**** and kiss the Arabs' asses. I've got cousins in Dubai who are pretty much Arab weeaboos.

[MENTION=2329]Karachi[/MENTION]



[–]SoloSeal 89 points 13 hours ago

Holy ****, the Saudi have commited more beheadings this year than ISIS

[Karachi]

Is it me or are these Saudis getting crazier and crazier, even compared to their already horrific behaviors

[Bengal_Tiger]

India moves to stop flow of housemaids to Saudi Arabia






Sushma Swaraj has ordered MEA to pursue the matter with the Saudi Foreign Ministry.

The Hindu


Sushma Swaraj has ordered MEA to pursue the matter with the Saudi Foreign Ministry.


After an Indian domestic worker's hand was chopped by her Saudi employee and sex slavery, MEA looks for other options.

Alarmed by frequent allegations of sex slavery, arm-chopping and sadistic domestic torture of housemaids in Saudi Arabia, India is considering a total ban on recruitment of housemaids by that country.

This follows the chopping of a domestic worker’s hand by her Saudi employer which India has described as “unacceptable.” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has also ordered the MEA to pursue the matter with the Saudi Foreign Ministry in Riyadh.

According to an MEA statement, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh has asked for ‘severe punishment’ for the employer who amputated Kasthuri Munirathinam of Vellore.

The idea of the ban was discussed by Ms. Swaraj at a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) and the Ministry of External Affairs on October 8.

“Sushmaji and we discussed how to stop the flow of housemaids from Tamil Nadu’s Vellore and West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, which top the list of regions producing housemaids for the Saudi kingdom,” said Rajya Sabha member D. Raja, who is a member of the committee.

Ms. Swaraj was informed that Saudi Arabia has refused to obey Indian laws on recruitment of manpower which are meant for 18 countries in West Asia and the South-East Asian region.

Environmentof impunity

Sources in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs have drawn attention to the fact that the latest incident of chopping an Indian domestic worker’s hand can be traced to the fact that the Saudi authorities themselves are facilitating an environment of impunity for the Foreign Employers (FEs) in Saudi territory who are forcing the recruitment agents of India to obey Saudi dictates neglecting Indian official procedures.

Saudi Arabia has refused to implement the $ 2,500 bank guarantee that the foreign employers are expected to deposit with the Embassy of India in Riyadh before approaching recruitment agents in India. The bank guarantee was planned as part of a recommendation of the inter-ministerial meeting held in June 2007.

More curiously, the Saudi authorities themselves have communicated to the Indian recruitment agents that they will be issued work visas only if they ensured that 25 per cent of their total recruits are housemaids from India.

Ms. Swaraj and the participants at the Consultative Committee meeting also discussed how best to ensure that the ban will not be violated by unscrupulous agents in India. The Saudi avoidance of the Indian rules can be explained by the fact that till date, they have more than 607 foreign employers registered who are freely violating norms of employing housemaids from India due to their government’s non-compliance with the rules laid down by India.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-moves-to-stop-flow-of-housemaids-to-saudi-arabia/article7744537.ece

1. India is following in the footsteps of Muslim giant, Indonesia which has announced the ban on Indonesian domestic workers in the Arab world. In 15 months time all of the 0.7 million low-skilled Indonesians working in Saudi will be required to leave and there will be a ban on Indonesian female workers going to many Arab countries.

As this is a massive development, when I have time I will start a separate thread on this.



Indonesian armed forces. Muslim giant, Indonesia has experienced a massive economic boom in the past few years and has decided that Arab brutality towards its workers is against its national honour and dignity and will be removing Indonesian workers from the racist and brutal Arab world.

Link, Indonesia to recall 0.7 million workers from Saudi Arabia.

Indonesia announced in May this year that it will stop fresh recruitment of maids to 21 countries in the Middle East.

The 21 countries include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt

The last 3 are not GCC states but are Arab countries and are known for brutality and torture of Asian workers.



2. India is a nuclear power with a giant economy and GDP worth trillions and trillions of dollars.

Saudi bullying and attempts to blackmail India for cheap mass female slavery "housemaids" can only go so far.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Bangladesh brokers ‘violating’ labor pact




In this January 2015 file photo, then acting Labor Minister Adel Fakeih, right, exchange mementos with Bangladesh Minister for Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Khandker Mosharraf Hossain during their meeting in Jeddah. Saudi recruitment businesses say Bangladesh has failed to provide the 500,000 housemaids it had promised.

ARAB NEWS

Published — Thursday 8 October 2015


JEDDAH: Local recruitment businesses are complaining that the Bangladesh government has failed to provide the 500,000 housemaids it had promised earlier this year, with only 2,000 employed in the Kingdom over the past six months.

Mishari Al-Thufairi, chairman of the recruitment committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said it was clear that the Bangladesh government wants to send men not women to the Kingdom as workers. In addition, he said brokers in Bangladesh are charging SR20,000 in service fees for every worker, three times the amount agreed upon between the Bangladesh and Saudi governments.

Saudi recruitment offices are required by these brokers to pay SR10,000 upfront, and then the rest once visas are approved, he was quoted as saying by a local publication.

Said Mussavi, a former member of the manpower recruitment committee at the Council of Saudi Chambers, said that brokers in Bangladesh were refusing to accept the agreed upon SR7,000 in fees for workers.
He urged the Ministry of Labor to ensure that only approved brokers are allowed to handle recruitment from Bangladesh, and follow official channels. Al-Thufairi said that because of the slow pace of hiring from Bangladesh, Saudi recruiters are looking to employ people from Eritrea. The government of the African country was setting up a project to train workers for the market in the Kingdom.

He said a housemaid from Eritrea would cost SR8,000 in recruitment fees and would arrive within 30 to 45 days. They would draw SR700 pay.

http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/817236

[Bengal_Tiger]

1. The "Arab news" is a Saudi propaganda outfit owned by Saudi royals and the editor is a character called Mohammed Fahad al-Harthi.



Harthi.


2. The language used in the propaganda article above is designed to vilify Bangladesh and show it at fault for not "supplying" (as if they come in boxes) female housemaids, and as if Saudis are entitled to this.



3. The Saudi media in general is anti-Bangladeshi and vilify Bangladeshi workers in the GCC though most are very law-abiding and Bengalis in general are known for being a relatively quiet, mild race.

Journalists from Pakistan and India have been involved in this propaganda campaign against Bangladeshi expatriate workers.



4. Saudi Arabia also supports Pakistan and pro-Pakistan forces in Bangladesh including Jamaat e "Islami" and organizes police harassment and beatings of Bangladeshi workers in Saudi as "soft pressure" on the Bangladeshi government to toe a pro-Pakistan line.

I know this personally as my cousin has been a victim, this is not news covered by the western media.



5. Saudi Arabia is also deeply hostile to Bangladesh's independence and its media and establishment support Pakistan's genocide of Bengalis in 1971.




So bizarrely despite all this huge hatred for Bangladesh and Bengalis they are begging us for 0.5 million "housemaids" (domestic slaves)!!



Indonesian housemaid brutalized in Saudi.




[MENTION=3580]asad71[/MENTION]

[Bengal_Tiger]

Comment from the Arab news propaganda article above:

Rafiqul Islam • 2 days ago

The subject has already become so touchy for the Bangladesh government as well. The Agreement with the Saudi Arab Government for supplying housemaids and male drivers/labors/office workers thus have come to a standstill.

It was, at the first time, assumed by the government departments that all the girls in Bangladesh would jump and fall in line for a maid's job in Saudi Arabia at a monthly Salary of SR.1600/- as announced in the local dailies earlier. And, on their part, exporting of a total of 500,000 housemaids would be an easy job as anything. Somehow, at the end of the MOU signature and the final agreement between the governments read the amount as SR 700/-. Majority of the girls were skeptical of the work situation in KSA and they were tipped off or appraised by distant relatives or family friends (who works(ed) in KSA) about the dwindling situation of the work environment, delayed salary, abuses and lack of legal protection and lack of Embassy supervision etc. etc. So the interest and zeal among the Muslim girls died down.

The candidates we are talking about are human beings and NOT grocery items that the government could force exporting them bundled in packages. Since most of them have withdrawn their applications/CVs, nothing else could be done by the Government unless something magical happens.

Here now comes the private Manpower Agencies (Exporters) who are trying to elude the candidates and their families(!) with high hopes and bright futures, but still then Muslim families (and the girls) are not thus convinced with the Saudi home situation to guarantee their personal safety. Manpower Agencies are making the price hikes with Saudi brokers but the result still not that much encouraging. They are also charging the candidates families dearly.

More practical approach with some revisions is needed from the Saudi Government towards ensuring safety of the housemaids and provisions of legal support including guaranteed monthly payment of salary and other fringe benefits. And, then only Bangladesh families would consider sending their daughters to a foreign land for earning money. Let us hope for the best.

Muhammad • 3 days ago

Saudi Arabia is not safe for housemaid. Many housemaid has raped already earlier this year. That's the main reason.

Saudi Arabia's slave sourcing running out

Saudi Arabia is running out of places which it can source convenient mass female slavery ("housemaids") from.

- Indonesia is ending it.
- India seems to be ending it too now.
- The Philippines has stopped it.
- Saudi has had bad relations with Thailand for about a quarter of a century.

- Bangladeshi females themselves are not interested.


Due to racial reasons the Saudis prefer east/south Asian females to "inferior" African females.

However it seems they are being forced to explore the "east African" option e.g. Eritrea but Africans in general are more volatile and violent and African maids have been known to kill members of the Saudi household they are being kept in.


Saudi female slavery in the long-term?

Arabs by nature are an aggressive and brutal people, the desert bedouin of Arabia are backwards and essentially sand gypsies. They have nothing but contempt for Asian/African expatriate workers and view them as slaves, to be used for their convenience and pleasure.

They are not human beings with certain rights.

However with the social media age and the rise of Asia economically, things are changing.

The abuse of female slaves in Saudi is deeply embarassing for the country and people, and many middle class Saudis now study abroad or go overseas and are embarrassed by the stigma of being seen as a backwards, barbaric and violent society.




Notorious thug and regime strongman, Ibn Nayef, as the man who is apparently now in charge whilst the "King" is in hospital, it will be up to this desert thug to ultimately manage the "shortage" of cheap female slaves in Saudi, and manage the global condemnation of backwards Saudi barbarism.

[Karachi]

Why dont these fat ass Saudis use maids from there own hellhole country, they bascially think of south asians / africans as their servants. I am glad India / Bangladesh are taking stand against these fat ass animals