Kuwaiti woman lets Somali maid fall from window

JupiterKid

This article made my blood run cold.

I knew things were bad for domestic "servants" in the Middle East, but this is disgusting. A Kuwaiti woman did nothing to help her Somali maid who was desperately clinging on to a railing after falling out a window and instead filmed the event. Could you get any more callous?:mad:

Article here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/kuwaiti-woman-films-maid-falling-7th-floor-window-article-1.3019858

Stigura

Chocolate drop, followed by black magic.

Mod: Banned

nullzero

Stigura wrote: »

Chocolate drop, followed by black magic.

Jim Davidson, is that you?

Gatling

That's completely fuxked up.

Amazing she actually survived

Stigura

No. It was my cousin, about forty five years ago, actually. He had a whole resume of Jesus ones too. Being a firm catholic.

AMEAHH

That's incredibly upsetting

Noveight

I've seen some pretty dodgy stuff on LiveLeak but that was right up there. Truly amazing that she survived.

Junkyard Tom

JupiterKid wrote: »

Could you get any more callous?:mad:

I get the impression that servants are considered almost sub-human by some people, as if their lives aren't as important as their owners employers. Presuming the story is accurate the person filming should serve a lengthy custodial sentence.

Ulysses Gaze

JupiterKid wrote: »

This article made my blood run cold.

I knew things were bad for domestic "servants" in the Middle East, but this is disgusting. A Kuwaiti woman did nothing to help her Somali maid who was desperately clinging on to a railing after falling out a window and instead filmed the event. Could you get any more callous?:mad:

Article here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/kuwaiti-woman-films-maid-falling-7th-floor-window-article-1.3019858

Sooner the oil runs out and they are back scratching around in the desert, the better.

tupenny

Jesus christ that is the most messed up thing I've seen
So glad the woman survived somehow but how could some1 just stand there filming. Clearly sees her as subhuman.
Shocking and upsetting

makeorbrake

I don't see any mention of police or arrest or anything of that nature in any of the news reports. We can only speculate as to what happened before - but is there any circumstance where you'd be holding your mobile thinking this will make good youtube copy as your maid dangles from a 7th floor window rather than stick out your hand and pull them in?

Are there any circumstances in which there wouldn't be a police investigation?...although technically (based just on the clip - not what might have happened beforehand), maybe she hasn't legally done anything wrong (even though morally, she's done as near to the worst you could possibly do by not trying to save her)).


They will get it all right back when they return to being nodamic camel riding desert dwellers once the oil runs out.

Gatling

Don't be at all surprised if the victim gets charged for criminal damage to the building and awning she landed on.

RobertKK

This treatment of poor migrants is common across the Middle East.

It has been estimated thousands of workers will die so Qatar can host the 2022 World Cup. Poor migrants are treated like dirt, as being somehow inferior.
It is inhumane.

cocaliquid

There just animals in the part of the world. I feel bad now insulting animals :pac::pac:

Arcade_Tryer

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I get the impression that servants are considered almost sub-human by some people, as if their lives aren't as important as their owners employers.

Indeed. Similar to the way people on boards view those on the dole.

GirlOutWest

I was initially reluctant to click on the link but curiosity got the better of me (wish I hadn't clicked now). That poor woman. The vile person who filmed it and thought it entertaining to post it should be named/shamed/jailed. Sadly, they probably won't be purely down to the country in which it was filmed.

Just imagine for one moment, had that happened in Ireland (or any European country), would be total uproar. Very sad.

Miracle she survived.

Arcade_Tryer

She should claim compensation in an Irish court.

Atlantic Dawn

It's their culture, an outsider can't comment on it.

Hooleyo

I am no language expert. But the woman filming does not sound like she is speaking Arabic. Rather it sounds like a language one might expect from Ethiopia. If so then the person filming could be a co worker or something.

Cookie_Monster

Filmer and her employer have both been arrested
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11832910

Tokyo

Hooleyo wrote: »

I am no language expert. But the woman filming does not sound like she is speaking Arabic. Rather it sounds like a language one might expect from Ethiopia. If so then the person filming could be a co worker or something.

Not that it should have any bearing on the situation, but both women in the video are speaking Arabic.

Canis Lupus

How did the maid end up in that position?

Noo

Canis Lupus wrote: »

How did the maid end up in that position?

"The lady put me in the bathroom and was about to kill me in the bathroom without anybody finding out, she would have thrown my body out like rubbish, so instead of staying there I went to save myself and then I fell," she said from a hospital, according to Middle East Eye. "Praise be to God, I was protected. And so, what can be done?"

511

RobertKK wrote: »

This treatment of poor migrants is common across the Middle East.

It has been estimated thousands of workers will die so Qatar can host the 2022 World Cup. Poor migrants are treated like dirt, as being somehow inferior.
It is inhumane.

They're not workers, they're slaves. The Gulf Arab-Muslim slave trade has been flowing unabated since the days of Muhammad.

suicide_circus

Enjoy your trips to dubai folks, this is the kind of society you support when you do.

SILVAMAN

511 wrote: »

They're not workers, they're slaves. The Gulf Arab-Muslim slave trade has been flowing unabated since the days of Muhammad.

And underpinned by Islam an inherently racist belief system.

fatknacker

Where was her other arm?

Your Face

Its a good thing we treat our own citizens so well.
It means I can get up on my high horse over this.

suicide_circus

Your Face wrote: »

Its a good thing we treat our own citizens so well.
It means I can get up on my high horse over this.

let me guess, Repeal the Magdalene Travellers?

padd b1975

fatknacker wrote: »

Where was her other arm?

Possibly holding a mobile phone as well.

vicwatson

Humans, ah yes, a great species

ChikiChiki

A miracle she survived that. F**king scum. Because the woman was born poor, they think she is beneath them? Horrific culture.

Barry Badrinath

Ah the Middle East...a great bunch o' c.unts

Noddyholder

suicide_circus wrote: »

Enjoy your trips to dubai folks, this is the kind of society you support when you do.

Now when does one consider the morals of ones country citizens & how they treat people stop any one from visiting them ? It would make a very long list if that were the case, I wonder would Ireland make it it on to said list ?

red ears

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Sooner the oil runs out and they are back scratching around in the desert, the better.

If the oil runs out we will get the pleasure of their company here in Europe.

suicide_circus

Noddyholder wrote: »

Now when does one consider the morals of ones country citizens & how they treat people stop any one from visiting them ? It would make a very long list if that were the case, I wonder would Ireland make it it on to said list ?

Thats up to the individual. I wouldn't go on holiday to dubai just as I wouldnt have gone on holiday in apartheid era south africa

Four Phucs Ache

I seen that yesterday and didn't watch it as the description said it all.

We can only speculate as to how she ended up on that ledge.

The "thing" holding the phone is a disgrace to humanity.

The events/actions/incidents we don't see recorded is what scares me the most.

razorblunt

ChikiChiki wrote: »

A miracle she survived that. F**king scum. Because the woman was born poor, they think she is beneath them? Horrific culture.

You don't need to look to far to see that "culture" exists elsewhere too.

sbsquarepants

Your Face wrote: »

Its a good thing we treat our own citizens so well.
It means I can get up on my high horse over this.

I'm not much of a one for high horses - but I think you'd be safe enough climbing up on this one!

Samaris

There's a very distinct pecking order in parts of the Middle East. It's not everywhere, but the UAE is definitely one of them. It's probably the worst, overall. Arabs are top of the heap, followed by white Europeans, followed by anyone else, who may as well be animals or slaves (although there's even a pecking order amongst the lesser beings in the eyes of Arab society. I think Filipinos are basically the bottom of the heap). It is pretty barbaric. UAE is just plain weird though. It's like a medieval kingdom still in some ways. Incredibly rich, the people at the top act like autocrats, and the lives of poorer people don't matter. If you're low on the pecking order due to your nationality or because you're an immigrant, you're worthless. But people will go and put up with it for the chance to earn money for their families.

Tbh, I wouldn't particularly want to visit UAE. Sure, I'd like to see some of the mad things that get built over there and Dubai is probably a stunning city, but there's an awful lot of cruelty, repression and social conditioning just under the surface.

major bill

"My grandfather rode a Camel, my father rode a Camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a Camel"

Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum - Ruler of Dubai and general quote on the middle East's Oil.

Its temporary riches, they will be in the same class bracket as that poor woman in the not so distant future.

wakka12

Incredibly upsetting video, hard to believe there are people like that out there

Dr Crayfish

I can never understand why people visit Dubai. The buildings are built by Indian slaves with no safety measures in place and no regard for their lives. None of this super rich oil companies are taking Syrian refugees in as far as I know, their Muslim brothers. We really should be boycotting this farce of a World Cup, it's 100% all about money and greed.
I haven't watched the video but I read about the jist of it and I'm not surprised at all, it's modern slave labour.

razorblunt

major bill wrote: »

"My grandfather rode a Camel, my father rode a Camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a Camel"

Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum - Ruler of Dubai and general quote on the middle East's Oil.

Its temporary riches, they will be in the same class bracket as that poor woman in the not so distant future.

Well, then, that's just poor investment practice if he thinks his great grandson will be picking sand grains out of his sandwiches in 50-60 years.

robbiezero

razorblunt wrote: »

You don't need to look to far to see that "culture" exists elsewhere too.

Do you mean in this country?
Nonsense.

Wibbs

Noddyholder wrote: »

Now when does one consider the morals of ones country citizens & how they treat people stop any one from visiting them ? It would make a very long list if that were the case, I wonder would Ireland make it it on to said list ?

No it wouldn't. FFS this self hating Ireland is a shíthole bandwagon really gets on my tits. To compare a socially backward kip like UAE to anywhere in Western Europe is beyond retarded.

Tabnabs

Any chance we can save some venom and outrage on the muslims and spread a little of it across the Indian subcontinent too? Or is this just an anti middle-east circle jerk?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhis-indifference-towards-domestic-child-labour/articleshow/47419398.cms

http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other//articleshow/15932324.cms?

Scum is scum...

HONKEY TONK

suicide_circus wrote: »

Thats up to the individual. I wouldn't go on holiday to dubai just as I wouldnt have gone on holiday in apartheid era south africa

Would you go to the US?

conorhal

HONKEY TONK wrote: »

Would you go to the US?

Oh, are we playing high horse Top Trumps? Would you go to North Korea?


I WIN!!!

HONKEY TONK

conorhal wrote: »

Oh, are we playing high horse Top Trumps? Would you go to North Korea?


I WIN!!!

Ive been to Dubai and Yes. I would go to to N Korea too if I got the chance

wes

The Gulf Arab states are pretty racist. My uncle use to work there, and the amount of **** he got, because he was Pakistani was pretty awful. He even got arrested due to that racism, after having an arguement with a Saudi. he only got out due to his employer intervening and stopping the bull****.

So not surprised to see this kind of thing at all. No one really challenges racism over there sadly.