About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

3 Replies to “Qatar, ‘justice’ and 10:1 slaves Vs. Free men”

  1. I feel sorry for the guy, but he was naive. First of all, why would you set up an organisation like that with your own money? That’s what banks and investors are for.
    And why would a non-citizen want to work in a kafeel system? You have few rights, and no guarantee you’ll get justice if even those rights are violated. There are websites devoted to cases like this, it’s public information.
    Maybe he thought he was OK because he had personal ties with a royal. But anything you receive is then at his sufferance, which can be withdrawn at a whim. Why would you ever want to be in a position of complete dependence, on a person like that?
    I vowed to never set foot in a muslim country ever again, some years ago. The Gulf states I’ve always avoided, I wouln’t even switch planes there.

    • Generally speaking I agree with you. One could make the case though that less was known then I dunno.

      That was just the 1st short segment. The second one is tonight which I havent seen the translation for yet, but I am told there is a lot of gold about how Qatar corrupts every other state it touches.

      Waiting for that.

  2. wikipedia – Kafala system

    The Kafala is a system used to monitor migrant laborers, working primarily in the construction and domestic sectors, in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

    […]In Islamic adoptional jurisprudence, “kafala” refers to the adoption of children.

    The original Islamic law of kafala was expanded to include a system of fixed-term sponsorship of migrant workers in several countries in the late twentieth century.

    In the first decades of the twenty-first century, the migrant worker system became widely referred to in English as the “kafala system”

    […] “Foreign workers in Qatar are modern-day slaves to their local employers. The local Qatari owns you”

    […]The kafala or sponsorship system practised by GCC nations has been stated as the main reason for abuse of the rights of low-income migrant workers.

    Little discussed is the fact that high-income professional expatriate workers are also deeply affected by the abuse of the system by companies

    […]From the highest executives to the lowest secretaries, this policy is damaging and serves as a constant threat over the employee.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system
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    Kafala – Islamic adoptional jurisprudence

    ( in French )

    https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala