Thursday, January 24, 2013

Help Wanted: Must Cook, Clean, Be Beaten and Raped...

Here is a harrowing expose of Saudi abuse of expat women brought in to be maids.  Jist:  Asians didn't take to well to being raped, beaten and killed, so now the Saudis have to import Ethiopians.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has imported female servants for decades. The Indonesian government stemmed the flow after the beheading of an Indonesian maid convicted of killing her employer in June 2011. Maids from the Philippines had also stopped arriving, after Filipino lawmakers wrote a report on alleged abuses, including rapes and beatings.
So the Saudis turned to Ethiopia, across the Red Sea, where most people live on less than $2 a day. “Saudi Arabia will choose the most compliant country,” said Walden Bello, chairman of the Overseas Workers Affairs Committee in the Philippine House of Representatives.
Steel yourself and read the whole thing. Then repeat to yourself over and over:
"1) All cultures are equally valid, no culture is better than another, and 2) Republicans in America are waging a war on women by not giving them free birth control."

Don't stop, keep repeating...

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