Immigrant Maids Flee Lives of Abuse in Kuwait

[davidinalameda]

maybe we should have let Saddam keep Kuwait

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/world/middleeast/02domestic.html?_r=1&hp

[demosincebirth]

1. the rich muslims also screw the poor

[UndertheOcean]

2. Gulf states treat immigrants horribly .

I know in the UAE (used to live there as a kid ) Foreigners outnumber citizens 5 to 1. Yet they can never get citizenship , nor can their children or grandchildren born on UAE soil.

[Bobbieo]

3. What does Ramadan have to do with the abuse of domestic workers in Kuwait.?

I take it is a religious holiday of some kind!!!!

[Bobbieo]

5. So I wiwkiuped Ramadan and found out is a month of fasting and doing good

deeds so what does this have to do with abusing domestic servants. Me, of little religious faith, am discovering the more I read about the Muslim religion, the less I really want to know about it. Feel the same way about Christianity, too.

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. as long as there are millions and millions of desperately poor willing to work

for very low wages and oppressive conditions that still pay two to five times as much as they could possibly earn in their home countries where domestics are also frequently treated abusively - these things will continue.

I know of a lot of horror stories about abusive treatment of domestics in the Gulf States and I also know that there are literally millions of people from countries like India, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh who are desperate to get those jobs. "Those that are dependent shall be exploited."

[Bobbieo]

6. Maybe it just boils down to the fact that there are too many people on earth.

[HEyHEY]

7. Same in Hong Kong, Dubai and such

Us rich bastards are so horrible it's not enough to exploit poor people at home and abroad, we actually IMPORT poor people to exploit.