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2004-05-20 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Zenster 2004-05-20 1:37:01 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I can tell you what is happening with the maids here, in Saudi Arabia. Besides being paid slave wages, they are physically (beatings and rapes) and mentally abused. The Sri Lankan and Philippines Consulates here have special rooms for run away maids. What does that tell you? For anybody who has ever lived in the Middle East and has witnessed how minorities are abused here, America self-flagellation for the "abuse" of the prisoners in Iraq is imcomprehensible and laughable.

Posted by Anonymous3964 2004-05-20 5:24:53 PM|| 2004-05-20 5:24:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Anonymous3964: For anybody who has ever lived in the Middle East and has witnessed how minorities are abused here, America self-flagellation for the "abuse" of the prisoners in Iraq is imcomprehensible and laughable.

Especially when you consider that the prisoners humiliated had been armed terorists, whereas the abused women were just doing household chores for a living.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-05-20 5:30:52 PM|| 2004-05-20 5:30:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Authoritarian societies (and yes, I consider tribal societies to be authoritarian) always save their loudest accusations for precisely those things they are the most guilty of.

Thus if they accuse us of humiliating prisoners, they are systematically torturing them. We treat our women like whores? They rape and abuse their servants. If we are accused of exposing our children to pornography, then pederasty is out of control over there.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-05-20 5:57:49 PM|| 2004-05-20 5:57:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember the Saudi "princess" who threw her Phillipine maid down the stairs in Miami a year or so ago? She didn't see anything wrong with it. She was arrested, but left the country. Maybe I missed it, but I don't think she came back for a trial.

Riyadh delenda est!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-20 6:13:59 PM|| 2004-05-20 6:13:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Anon3964, I've heard a lot about the Saudi abuse of their foreign workers. Often times the worker is 'stuck' in virtual slavery since 1) they are in debt to their recruiter for their recruitment and airfair and 2) they have little, if any, rights. They sometimes cannot even speak more than a smattering of the language. Often they do not even have access to their passport.

It is not uncommon for a Filipina to be raped repeatably by her employer or his sons (or both) and simply have to endure it because she has no rights and cannot afford to go back home.

I am assuming that this woman (from Indoneasia) is Muslim. The Filipino's have it worse since they are not even muslim.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-05-20 7:22:25 PM|| 2004-05-20 7:22:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I have to laugh every time I see the Arabs condemning us for "human rights violations," and how those annoying groups yell at us instead of looking at what they should be. They quite simply do not have the right to condemn others for what they themselves are guilty of, not until they realize how screwed up their own affairs are. If they try to work on them, fine, then they can say something. Not until.

And, hey, Anon3694, are you Saudi? Get yourself a proper name and start posting! We could use an insider!

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-20 8:59:27 PM|| 2004-05-20 8:59:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Everything said here is spot-on. What you see for yourself (I once recounted discovering a Fillipino nurse who had been imprisoned in one of the apartments in the bldg I lived in back in '92) is corroborated by everyone who has been there long enough. The only thing that ever amazes me about these stories now is when a Saudi is forced to face the music - a rare event, indeed, and prolly only indicative of a Saudi without connections getting uppity.

I echo The Doctor's comment, A3964, plz stick around and contribute!

Posted by .com 2004-05-20 9:23:32 PM|| 2004-05-20 9:23:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Nirmala Bonat's abuser has turned out to be Chinese. Her name is Yim Pek Ha. It just goes to show that one needs to do their homework before making blind accusations.

Posted by Anonymous5013 2004-05-26 3:12:59 PM|| 2004-05-26 3:12:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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