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Kuwaitis demand more obedient slaves


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2018 Jul 23, 7:45am   15,871 views  112 comments

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/who-will-refund-me-kuwaiti-star-ignites-row-over-filipinos-days-off

A Kuwaiti social media star is facing a backlash after criticising new laws improving conditions for the country’s Filipino domestic workers.

Sondos Alqattan, an Instagram star and makeup artist with over 2.3 million followers, criticised new laws giving Filipino workers a day off per week and preventing employers from seizing their passports.

“How can you have a servant at home who keeps their own passport with them? What’s worse is they have one day off every week,” she said in a video posted online, which has gone viral and attracted criticism in the Middle East and the Philippines.

Alqattan slated reforms introduced in May to protect the rights of Filipino domestic workers: “If they run away and go back to their country, who will refund me?


When I was studying in Ann Arbor, there was a Kuwaiti woman downstairs from me who kept an Indian slave. There is no other way to describe it. The poor slave woman was not allowed to leave the apartment, ever, and was very badly treated. Very timid. The Kuwaiti was a domineering entitled bitch. So this article sounds quite familiar.

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99   Blue   2018 Jul 28, 12:10am  

CBOEtrader says
Patrick says
If they run away and go back to their country, who will refund me?


WTF is going on with this business transaction?


I have a feeling, there is sex involved often as part of domestic work. These poor women are exploited all over. The middle east culture is really a f. s..t. When the worker arrive the "master" f.r take passport for many types of workers. I was on a business trip and ended up stopping by, because of my co-worker need to see someone in dumps. One of the guy showed us dozens of passports except photo part, that can be placed with a little difficulty. They sad, in fact some times authorities encourage to have yours in case if they need to deport, they have to spend some money and time. If you have yours with you and plane ticket, you can fly. Depends on the situation/gender/time/place/employer/time of the day/year one can fly out with out an issue. Btw, all passports were free for friends whoever needs one. That looks scary back then.
100   alpo   2018 Jul 28, 12:21am  

rando says
Well, to be honest, only the Muslims are deliberately murdering random people in the name of their religion. That could be a factor.


Blue says
If you can help us answer, how many bombers blow up so far by religion. Perhaps this can give answer.


You are four times likely to die in an airplane crash, by heat wave, or a police shooting then by a Muslim killing you in the name of religion (https://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrorism-disease-accidents-2017-1). This offcourse ignores any domestic incidences of mass shootings and gun violence. Violence in the name of religion is bad, but again there is nothing to point out that Muslims are any more violent than Christians or Jews and I can throw as many numbers as you can :-).


Blue says
You mean all day long gay porn watching Islamic mullah is the other best choice to make the right decisions with a button in hand.


No, but I don't think Donald Trump is any better at watching over nukes than gay porn watching Islamic mullah.
101   Blue   2018 Jul 28, 12:38am  

alpo says
rando says
Well, to be honest, only the Muslims are deliberately murdering random people in the name of their religion. That could be a factor.


Blue says
If you can help us answer, how many bombers blow up so far by religion. Perhaps this can give answer.


You are four times likely to die in an airplane crash, by heat wave, or a police shooting then by a Muslim killing you in the name of religion (https://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrorism-disease-accidents-2017-1). This offcourse ignores any domestic incidences of mass shootings and gun violence. Violence in the name of religion is bad, but again there is nothing to point out that Muslims are any more violent than Christians or Jews.

Blue says
You mean ...


You may be disappointed to realize that - Honorable Mr. Donald Trump is the best president that this country ever saw and the world is damn lucky to have him around.
102   alpo   2018 Jul 28, 12:46am  

Blue says
You may be disappointed to realize that - Honorable Mr. Donald Trump is the best president that this country ever saw and the world is damn lucky to have him around.


OK, if you say so, but he doesn't do anything. I didn't vote last elections (the choices just weren't good enough to bother voting), but all the hyperbole that Trump spewed about Infrastructure spending, I was hoping that at the very least he would fix traffic on Highway 101, but the Idot is more busy rabble rousing on twitter than doing anything worthwhile.
103   Onvacation   2018 Jul 28, 6:28am  

Strategist says
Whatever happened to the good old days when there were lots of slaves available at affordable prices with low interest rates,

If you have to finance them you shouldn't have slaves.
104   Strategist   2018 Jul 28, 9:10am  

alpo says
Violence in the name of religion is bad, but again there is nothing to point out that Muslims are any more violent than Christians or Jews and I can throw as many numbers as you can :-).


How many Christian or Jew suicide bombers can you point out?
105   Strategist   2018 Jul 28, 9:12am  

Onvacation says
Strategist says
Whatever happened to the good old days when there were lots of slaves available at affordable prices with low interest rates,

If you have to finance them you shouldn't have slaves.


WTF. If we had price controls on slaves, we wouldn't have to finance them. I can't even afford to rent one.
106   Shaman   2018 Jul 28, 9:30am  

alpo says
was hoping that at the very least he would fix traffic on Highway 101,


If Trump tried (for some inexplicable reason) to fix a state highway (which isn’t the Federal government’s responsibility), the Democrats who control the state would raise hell and block his efforts with legal challenges.

Keep that in mind when you consider what he has and hasn’t been able to accomplish. He’s fighting upriver to get anything done.
107   alpo   2018 Jul 28, 9:47am  

Strategist says
How many Christian or Jew suicide bombers can you point out?


I think the real question is why would you need a human guided bomb when you have a precision guided missile that can go well beyond what any human guided bomb can do :-)
108   Strategist   2018 Jul 28, 9:52am  

alpo says
Strategist says
How many Christian or Jew suicide bombers can you point out?


I think the real question is why would you need a human guided bomb when you have a precision guided missile that can go well beyond what any human guided bomb can do :-)


alpo says
I can throw as many numbers as you can :-).


ROFL. So far you have thrown out Zero.
109   Strategist   2018 Jul 28, 9:57am  

Next question to Alpo:
How many people have Christians and Jews killed for apostasy this century?
110   Strategist   2018 Jul 28, 9:59am  

Another question for Alpo:
How many religions are Christians and Jews in active conflict with?
111   alpo   2018 Jul 28, 10:26am  

Whichever way you cherry pick the numbers, the facts are that Christian and Jews aren't any less voilent than Muslims. They have their terrorists and suicide bombers and you have your Tomohawk Cruise and stealth fighters. You think its ok to fire of hundreds of missiles and carpet bomb an area to create "peace and freedom" and they think its ok to send terrorists, suicide bombers, and fund radical sects across the world to "create the next caliphate". But if you are somehow claiming that Christian and Jewish world is more "advanced and peaceful" than the Muslim world, I find that very difficult to believe given the large scale use of violence on both sides that continues to bring down the general environment across the planet.
112   Strategist   2018 Jul 28, 11:41am  

alpo says
Whichever way you cherry pick the numbers, the facts are that Christian and Jews aren't any less voilent than Muslims. They have their terrorists and suicide bombers and you have your Tomohawk Cruise and stealth fighters. You think its ok to fire of hundreds of missiles and carpet bomb an area to create "peace and freedom" and they think its ok to send terrorists, suicide bombers, and fund radical sects across the world to "create the next caliphate". But if you are somehow claiming that Christian and Jewish world is more "advanced and peaceful" than the Muslim world, I find that very difficult to believe given the large scale use of violence on both sides that continues to bring down the general environment across the planet.


alpo says
Violence in the name of religion is bad, but again there is nothing to point out that Muslims are any more violent than Christians or Jews and I can throw as many numbers as you can :-).


I rest my case.

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