Saudi Hardship

''Damn you Muna Sulaiman.'' Must I cut my own kabob?

Heaven knows that the Saudis take a lot of heat in this country. Oil prices, Wahhabism, terrorist producing, blah-blah-blah.  Few people understand, however, that the average Saudi experiences the same pain, fears, and frustrations that you and I endure.  I learned this myself from the Arab News.  Govt Doing Little to Protect Us From Abusive Maids, Employers Say JEDDAH, 8 July 2006 — Cases of Asian maids running away and leaving their employers in desperate situations seem to be a growing phenomenon. We tend to hear many cases of maids being abused by their employers but at the same time there are multiple cases of families themselves being abused and treated inappropriately by their maids. Recently, having only been in the Kingdom for two days an Asian maid ran away from her sponsor’s home. In another case one maid demanded her employers send her back to her home country saying working, as a maid, was not befitting her and in a third case a maid left her sponsor’s house at a critical time when the lady of the house had given birth just a few days earlier. According to Al-Watan newspaper, many Saudis complain that the Ministry of Labor is doing very little to protect their rights as more and more maids run away.