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2004-06-16 Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Suicides Among Indonesian Maids Raise Alarm

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Posted by Anonymous4617 2004-06-16 7:42:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My dream is to have enough money to fund a newspaper
Fund a newspaper? That's old media. The blogosphere is new media. All we need to do is get more people to read Rantburg:)

Posted by Spot 2004-06-16 8:54:44 AM|| 2004-06-16 8:54:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Spot, tradegy of the commons.

Posted by Phil B 2004-06-16 9:01:46 AM|| 2004-06-16 9:01:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I SPIT ON THEM! Arabs treat domestic workers like camel sh*t! Especially women foreigners!

Posted by Anonymous5237 2004-06-16 9:14:29 AM|| 2004-06-16 9:14:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Good point - In this case the 'holier' Arab muslims are doing it to less 'holy' Indonease Muslims. Just like in Sudan where you are the 'holier' arab muslims killing/raping/murdering their less-holy African/Black 'muslim brother and sisters' while the world (particulary the UN) watches.

And no, this type of abuse is *not* uncommon.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-16 9:25:19 AM|| 2004-06-16 9:25:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 In my total of 22+ months of service in the Persian Gulf, (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, U.A.E.,etc.) I have read numerous reports in the local newspapers of expat workers taking their own lives. The most popular way of doing it is usually poison, although I have read of a few hangings. It appears that the suicides are usually out of desperation due to sexual abuse, maltreatment, etc. The law of the underworld is definatly a part of the Arab culture, and TCN's (Third Country Nationals) are often treated like Children of a lesser God by their employers. Muslim or not, TCN's are usually shat on by not only their bosses, but the entire indigenous population. Guess what Rantburgers, Kuwait(TM)is only 40 something % native Kuwaitis, all the rest being from Egypt, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Bangledesh, etc. Money has been the major catalyst, along with the Arab-wide state of Mass insecurity and dominance.

Posted by Bodyguard 2004-06-16 9:30:04 AM|| 2004-06-16 9:30:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Spot,
"All we need to do is get more people to read Rantburg:"

Believe me, I do that, too. I have e-mailed this link to people in a South American country that shall remain nameless, the US and here, in Saudi Arabia. I know that the blogosphere is what most readers will turn to for news in the future but, we are not there yet. The truth about the treatment of minorities by muslims needs to be publize now and in a big way. I guarantee that this will change the mind of a lot of those wishy-washy Westerners, who still think that muslims are just like them...maybe a little bit different given that they come from a different culture.

Posted by Anonymous4617 2004-06-16 9:35:33 AM|| 2004-06-16 9:35:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 âIndonesia will set up some 18 support groups in the Kingdom to safeguard the interests of its workers and monitor cases of harassment,â

Yeah? And just how are these maids to access the support groups, ask for a ride from their employers?

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-16 9:42:01 AM|| 2004-06-16 9:42:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 As important as it is for we kafr to know the truth about Saudi Islam it is even more important for Moslems to know it.

Posted by mhw 2004-06-16 9:57:11 AM|| 2004-06-16 9:57:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Tragedy of the Commons? Rantburg?

Ima thought this was the free rider thingy.

:)

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-16 11:15:51 AM|| 2004-06-16 11:15:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 The guy I worked for the first time I was in SA had a male housekeeper - because he was not a Saudi. The Saudi 'neighbor' across the street had a female housekeeper. Both were Sri Lankans. He described coming home one day to find them standing on the curb talking to each other - across the street. He didn't mind, of course, but warned his guy that this might cause problems if the Saudi found out.

What harm could there be in these two lonely homesick people talking to each other, you ask? None, of course.

Well, the Saudi neighbor did 'catch' them, eventually, and my boss told me she ended up in the hospital from the beating and then summarily deported by this well-connected Aramco Saudi asswipe. This is a common-place story.

Posted by .com 2004-06-16 7:15:03 PM|| 2004-06-16 7:15:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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