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2005-03-27 Arabia

What a spin! Eye on Saudi Maids Reveals Child Abuse

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Posted by TMH 2005-03-27 9:26:12 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But of course, Saudis wouldn't even think in looking at the camera while the girl disrobes.

Posted by JFM 2005-03-27 9:42:39 AM|| 2005-03-27 9:42:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course not, JFM! We're too busy reviewing all those alleged porn CD's that were siezed earlier this week. This will take a considerable amount of time ~~and towels and baby oil~~...

Posted by Shiek Yerbouti 2005-03-27 10:07:26 AM|| 2005-03-27 10:07:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 They just want to make a video of the manly muslim men raping their maids..... Rape is almost a religous obligation in Islam you see...

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-27 10:08:56 AM|| 2005-03-27 10:08:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fortuneately, I never had to install cameras to watch our maids - there weren't any. Mrs. Bobby and I raised all three of our little darlings wihtout hired help! Wotta concept!

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-27 1:46:53 PM|| 2005-03-27 1:46:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, I've used border colliers who were sometimes too aggressive with the nephews but hey! That's just the way they are.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-27 1:53:07 PM|| 2005-03-27 1:53:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The collies or the kids, Ship? heh ....

Posted by too true 2005-03-27 1:54:15 PM|| 2005-03-27 1:54:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The collies of course! The chillrun run and scream after a few nips on the ankle. Course it makes them easy to mass.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-27 3:38:02 PM|| 2005-03-27 3:38:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Have a friend with a Great Pyrenees. Great dog, not a wanderer but she can't let it outside in the early morning and the evenings, because it herds joggers. As in, she comes out front to see 5 or so nervous people standing near her fence - one moves and the Pyr moves in to keep the guys/gals together. I guess it figures the car traffic is dangerous - no sidewalks there - and it needs to protect its funny looking 'sheep'. Heh.

Posted by too true 2005-03-27 3:47:45 PM|| 2005-03-27 3:47:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 tt - LOL! That conjures up all sorts of hysterical images for me, lol! Hmmmm. Herds joggers, eh? I'm picturing the Marin Co Massacre... 2 or 3 of these awesome dogs send hundreds of Bay Area joggers off one of the palisades into the icy shark-ridden waters...

Oh, um, sorry. Daydreaming again.

Posted by .com 2005-03-27 4:43:17 PM|| 2005-03-27 4:43:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 LOL! .com except it could never happen. The dawgs would throw themselves in front of the herd to keep them from the cliff. What you want is a Tasmanian tiger.... rats... whers that .jpg? I had it... fooey. Anyway. A cat who hates folks.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-27 5:12:27 PM|| 2005-03-27 5:12:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 No wait a second.... my sources inform me that a Sheltie would herd them off in a second.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-27 5:14:14 PM|| 2005-03-27 5:14:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Ship - Lol - I'm afraid Shelties might explode from all the excitement, heh!

Posted by .com 2005-03-27 5:28:31 PM|| 2005-03-27 5:28:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 TMH, speaking as someone who has employed a number of Asian maids (when living in Asia), I know that abusing young children is a common way for maids to exact revenge for real and imagined abuses on them. I don't condone it but I understand why it happens.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-27 5:50:32 PM|| 2005-03-27 5:50:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 As someone who lived in SA, I'll say that TMH's assertions regards Saudi Arabia are absolutely correct. Perhaps a maid employed in her / his own native locale may be abusive, but you can bet your ass that one in SA would not be - for fear of her / his very life.

Maids and "Houseboys" are commonly terrorized, starved, beaten, and sexually abused by the Saudis, both the males and females -- and there is no escape. Even if they had squirreled away cash to buy a ticket, the "employer" / "sponsor" keeps their passports. You can't run away to the nearest Catholic Church and beg Father DoGood to sneak you out of the country - no one is sympathetic to your plight. No. One. They are no different than indentured servants, who are often "fined" for "misbehavior" and there is no recourse. They are routinely held beyond their agreed contract and routinely paid less than was agreed and routinely charged for anything the employer provides. Those who are "live-in" cannot leave the house, period, without permission. Talk about making a complaint to the Labor Ministry is completely laughable without a company behind you or in large numbers. Top it off with this: The Labor Ministry won't even give you an interview if you don't have a native Arabic speaker to represent you - this is common in all dealings with the Govt... it "makes work" for indolent useless Saudis and other Arabs from the GCC who are not from connected / wealthy tribes. There is no recourse. Asking for trouble would bring it in spades - there's plenty of abuse coming at them from the Saudis, they don't need to, and I say won't, go asking for it.

In the Asian country I've been in long enough to employ domestic help, Thailand, I've neither seen nor heard of any sort of child abuse. I did not have children there with me, so no first-hand knowledge one way or the other. None of my Thai friends with children was financially independent, lol!

In Saudi, it would be absolute suicide. They are already abused and unprotected beyond the wildest dreams of any American or Westerner. To buy into this Bullshit is to be utterly suckered, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-03-27 6:37:37 PM|| 2005-03-27 6:37:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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