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May 8, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-arab-spring-has-washed-the-regions-appalling-racism-out-of-the-news-7718707.html

Don't Ignore Arab World's Appalling Racism

(Independent-UK) Robert Fisk - Arab societies are dependent on servants. Yet in the Arab Gulf, the treatment of migrant labor - male as well as female - has long been a scandal. Men from the subcontinent often live eight to a room in slums - even in the billionaires' paradise of Kuwait - and are consistently harassed, treated as third-class citizens, and arrested on the meanest of charges. Saudi Arabia long ago fell into the habit of chopping off the heads of migrant workers who were accused of assault or murder or drug-running, after trials that bore no relation to international justice.

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