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Monday, 8 April 2013

Islamic Barbarity in Kuwait

Filipina Domestics in Kuwait Safe house, 2010

Source: 2010 Moises Saman/Magnum Photos

A friend in Pensacola passed on to me this edited email from a colleague who is working as a security contractor in Kuwait. The observations of the email author are highly revelatory regarding the callous barbarity prevalent in this Gulf region Islamic country. Kuwait was ranked 63 in 2011 on the Human Development Index by the UN Development Program. A recent Human Rights Watch report in 2010, Kuwait: For Abused Domestic Workers, Nowhere to Turn noted “ the lack of protection for foreign migrant domestic workers who have minimal protection against employers who withhold salaries, force employees to work long hours with no days off, deprive them of adequate food, or abuse them physically or sexually.”

In the latest available US State Department Report on Trafficking in Persons issued in June 2012, Kuwait was ranked in the Tier 3 category. “Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.” The Migrant Rights blog noted in July 2011 “that Kuwait has been rated many times as one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to combating human trafficking as seen in the US State Department annual reports, Human Rights Watch, and other international human rights organizations”. And yet as this report stated, the Kuwait government has rejected US State Department Trafficking in Persons rankings

HRW in a recent update in February 2013, Kuwait: Rights Setbacks Amid Political Crisis, demonstrated that conditions have gotten worse in Kuwait:

In June 2011, the government voted to adopt the International Labour Organization’s Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers (Convention 189), which establishes global labor standards on domestic work. However, the government has not taken any steps to ratify the convention or improve the treatment of an estimated 660,000 migrant domestic workers.

In 2010, the government passed a new private sector labor standard that set working hours, leave, and bonuses for migrant workers. However, the law excluded domestic workers who work and live inside employers' homes in Kuwait. Many domestic workers complain of long working hours without rest; months or years of unpaid wages; and verbal, physical, and sexual abuse.

“Kuwait needs to follow through on the commitment it made in 2011 to protect domestic workers by ratifying the convention and reforming its laws in line with the international standards.”

Read between the lines of email from an American security contractor in Kuwait:

The Arab world here is "lawless". They can do whatever they want. Approximately every two weeks a Filipina maid "commits" suicide by jumping to her death from a high rise apartment. What that translates to is she refused to have sex with her "master" or his sons. Kuwait is leading country in the world for human trafficking (slaves). Every time a woman, alone, gets into a cab here she is in danger of being taken out to the desert raped and killed. .. It is common knowledge that the police here are the BAD GUYS. I have witnessed in broad daylight women being abducted by the police. They are notorious for taking the women to police stations and raping them. . . . When traveling here on the economy I am always conscious of watching my back. The Arab expression is " man, woman, backside same “, that reflects their bi-sexual upbringing .

Kuwait was the country we fought Saddam Hussain to liberate during the 1^st Gulf War.

Tags: Kuwait, Human Rights, Islamic Barbarity, Human Rights Watch, Filipina domestic workers, human trafficking, State department reports, Human Development Index ranking of UN Development Program, Human Rights Watch, Migrant Rights, Observations of US security contractor

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Posted on 04/08/2013 7:32 PM by Jerry Gordon

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8 Apr 2013
Christina McIntosh

There is no good reason for any non-Muslim country to have official diplomatic relations with any Muslim entity; no reason to allow Muslim entities or Muslims from Muslim lands to enter - for any reason - a non-Muslim land, and all non-Muslim countries should actively dissuade their non-Muslim citizens from going to Muslim lands to work, as tourists or to do business. (If, however, Muslims already resident in non-Muslim lands decide to go back to the dar al Islam, that decision should be welcomed; but steps then taken to ensure that those Muslims, once gone, cannot get back in).

One may buy oil, from those that have oil to sell; but that may be done fastidiously at arm's length; and every effort made at the same time to find alternative - jihad-free , slavery-free - sources of energy,;and where oil and gas are perforce required, to patronise first of all those sellers of oil and gas who are not Muslim. Infidel energy companies need to be steadily disengaging from Muslim lands and re-engaging with non-Muslims: with Israel (those new gas fields, under the Mediterranean), for example, or with little East Timor and South Sudan, who have large oil and gas reserves and could do with a lot of investment from fellow non-Muslims, properly done, so as to build up their strength to be able to withstand the Jihad that will, sooner or later, be launched against them in fury.

As for anything else that Muslim countries have to sell - cheap clothing, dates, figs, cheap and nasty olive oil, pistachios, satay sauce, timber, rice, rugs - the conscientious Infidel can easily get any of it - and better quality, and in the case of foodstuffs, more likely to be safe for infidel consumption - from non-Muslim sources that are not tainted by mass-murder, persecution, and genocidal Jew-hatred. Would one have bought the products of Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia? Then why buy anything from any of the ugly, ugly countries within the Empire of Islam?

Country by country, all but the most distant diplomatic relationship with Muslim lands should be being broken off; Muslim immigration into non-Muslim lands - legal or illegal, ended; entry of Muslim 'tourists', 'students', 'businessmen', also denied, and permanently cut off. Muslims with sob stories have 50 + Muslim states within the ummah-at-large to appeal to; let them be taken care of by some other part of the Ummah, if they are 'refugees' or 'asylum seekers'.