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| Sri Lankan Maids Told to Respect Saudi Customs |
| 2004-05-29 |
| Sri Lankan maids have been urged to abide by the Kingdomâs customs to avoid problems with their employers, their ambassador said yesterday; running away from the workplace should be their last resort. He made the remarks at a meeting organized by the Seva Vanitha Unit of the Sri Lankan Embassy, where around 250 maids got together to discuss their problems. An estimated 150,000 Sri Lankan housemaids are employed throughout the Kingdom. Inaugurating the first-ever seminar for maids in the Kingdom, Ibrahim Sahib Ansar called on domestic workers to be patient and understanding in the discharge of their duties and not to act in haste. He said the embassy was dealing with some cases that could have been averted if the employees had thought more carefully before making decisions. But he also expressed hope that Saudi employers would respect the rights of their domestic help. Naleem Izzadeen from the Sri Lankan Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Dawah and Guidance, pointed out that the problems of Sri Lankan maids are not unique but are shared by their counterparts from Indonesia and the Philippines. âThese problems have already drawn the attention of the Saudi government, which has decided that local employers who fail to look after their maids will be penalized and barred from hiring overseas domestic staff in the future,â he said. The ambassadorâs wife Nissa Ansar, who is president of the Seva Vanitha Unit, said most of the problems of runaway maids could be attributed to lack of communication between the employer and the employee. âTolerance, compromise and timely payment of wages will solve 90 percent of the problems,â Nissa Ansar told Arab News. On the initiative of the mission, she said the Riyadh-based Saudi National Recruitment Committee, in cooperation with the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, will put newly recruited maids through an orientation program before their departure for Saudi Arabia. Every month, the embassy repatriates around 125 housemaids who are rescued or run away from their employers. The Sri Lankan mission repatriated 1,037 maids in the first seven months of last year alone. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #2 Translation: Embrace Dhimmitude. After all it is perfectly legal there to rob, rape, and murder 'infidels'... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-29 4:51:24 PM |
| #1 âTolerance, compromise and timely payment of wages will solve 90 percent of the problems,â Nissa Ansar told Arab News. However those qualities are un-Islamic, so back to beatings, humiliation, chattel slavery, and rape. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37518 |
| Posted by: ed 2004-05-29 4:32:22 PM |