Posted on 07/19/2013 4:11:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes, there's a war on women in America. But it's not the phony "war" that tampon-hurling feminists are always shrieking about -- as they did last week in Texas to protest tougher regulations on dangerous late-term abortion clinics. No, I'm talking about a real war on women waged by Saudi royals and elites who've imported human trafficking and abuse of domestic workers onto U.S. soil.
Meet Meshael Alayban of Saudi Arabia, wife of Abdulrahman bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. She apparently thought we Americans would look the other way at human trafficking and abuse of domestic workers -- you know, the way they do in her misogyny-infested home country. The wealthy Meshael Alayban thought wrong.
Last week, Orange County, Calif., prosecutors charged Alayban (who lists her occupation as "princess" on her tourist visa) with felony human trafficking. Enslavement. A Kenyan maid escaped from Alayban's compound earlier this month after allegedly being held against her will. She told police Alayban confiscated her passport, refused to abide by an employment contract and forbade the worker from returning to her home country -- where she has an ailing 7-year-old daughter.
When law enforcement officials entered Alayban's mansion, they found four other domestic workers from the Philippines who also have indicated a desire to be freed from Saudi bondage. The servants tended to the round-the-clock needs and whims of the princess, her husband, their three young children, a grandmother and three other extended family members. Last week, Alayban posted $5 million bail (paid for by the Saudi consulate) and was whisked back to her estate by a phalanx of bodyguards. She must wear a GPS tracking device and will be arraigned at the end of the month. Her high-priced lawyers dismiss the incident as an insignificant "wage dispute."
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas minced no words: "It's been 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation, and slavery has been unlawful in the United States, and certainly in California, all this time, and it's disappointing to see it in use here." Fortunately for the alleged victim, California has an anti-human trafficking law put in place by voters through a state initiative last year. Alayban may enjoy countless royal privileges back in Saudi Arabia, but here she'll have to face the legal music.
The same cannot be said for the alleged abuser(s) of two Filipino women who escaped a Saudi diplomatic compound in Virginia earlier this year. At the end of April, the women broke free and were taken into protective custody by Department of Homeland Security personnel. The gated complex is owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Armed Forces Office, whose personnel reportedly enjoy full diplomatic immunity. What exactly happened, who is responsible, and what are the consequences? The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to my follow-up inquiries about the case.
These recent cases must be set against the cultural backdrop of abuse and violence by Saudi royals and elites. In 1995, Saudi princess Maha al-Sudairi allegedly beat a servant in Orlando, Fla., whom she had accused of theft, while off-duty deputies serving as her private security guards watched. The officers were later disciplined for not stopping the beating and failing to write a report and follow up on a tip that another of the princess's slaves had been beaten, according to local news reports. Al-Sudairi fled to Europe, where she has racked up tens of millions of dollars in unpaid debts to luxury stores, art galleries, hotels and other furious creditors.
In 2002, an Indonesian maid in Florida called 911 after Saudi princess Buniah al-Saud allegedly beat and pushed the servant down a flight of stairs. On a dispatcher's audiotape, the maid was heard "crying hysterically" and pleaded through a translator: "Help me. Help me. The boss pushed me down the stairs." Al-Saud pleaded no-contest in Florida and was fined a measly $1,000.
In 2006, Saudi princess Hana Al Jader was arrested in Boston on charges of forced labor, enslavement and visa fraud involving two Indonesian maids. She received two years' probation and deportation back to Saudi Arabia.
Also in 2006, Saudi national Homaidan al-Turki was convicted in Colorado for the brutal sexual assault and enslavement of his Indonesian housekeeper. Al-Turki was a married graduate student at the University of Colorado with four children. He petitioned for and was denied parole this spring after refusing to participate in sex offender treatment -- which he says violates his Islamic faith.
While many Saudi enslavers and abusers have been charged, untold cases are abandoned. Brandon Darby, who worked with the FBI in an undercover capacity on anti-human trafficking efforts in 2011-2012, told me that "the Justice Department, specifically the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office, have backed away from aggressively pursuing human trafficking cases."
Political correctness and diplomatic fecklessness are the handmaidens of women's subjugation, right here in the U.S. of A.
Working taxpayers are the new slaves in Amerika, we are all slaves to the collective, working till August to pay our toll for being alive.
Unfortunately, this human trafficking extends beyond Saudi royalty. If people knew more about the circumstances of workers at some ethnic restaurants, they might change their dining habits.
That's the thing that really annoys me about the rhetoric of the taker enablers.
There is no recognition that the takers spend ZERO time working for the "public good". Wage slaves put in countless hours working for their masters, the gov't and the takers.
The takers? They contribute nothing to the society.
MSM ignoring this I bet
Actually I believe CNN (of all networks) did a special on this subject about a year ago. They only touched briefly on the Muslim thing and definitely didn’t bring in the religious aspect.
slavery gets a pass in much of the world today but the US still gets berated for it - even though its been outlawed 150 years
Well at least he is truthful about his crimes.
His religion says he can take all of the non-Muslim slaves he wants and rape them as much as he wants.
As far as Islamic Law is concerned he did nothing wrong.
And Blacks still flock to Islam.....while blaming White Christian Europeans for slavery years ago
Islam is Evil
A lot of the ethnic slavery (for example, in Chinese restaurants, which are notorious for it) is based on people (the slaves) having to pay back amounts they borrowed to get to this country. Of course, they probably never manage to pay quite enough, and are going to be enslaved there all their lives. And that’s not to mention the women who come here thinking they are going to work as waitresses or housecleaners and find themselves being put out as prostitutes. In both cases, the people behind these schemes are criminals (the Mafia and other organized crime families are often involved in these schemes) and they know it’s illegal and, theoretically, they can be caught and punished.
The Saudis and Muslim cultures in general - although the Saudis have the most money for doing this - are even more blatant about it, and what’s worse in their case is that they actually feel they have a right to do it. After all, Islam lets them take non-Muslim slaves and do whatever they want with them, and in recent years Western law has shown itself very willing to adapt to Islamic law.
But of course, the women’s movement has nothing to say about any of it. They’re too busy trying to kill American babies so that we will have to bring in imported labor and so that we will be too weak to resist our Islamic masters.
“What exactly happened, who is responsible, and what are the consequences? The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to my follow-up inquiries about the case. “
This sounds more like the whitehouse administration.
//As far as Islamic Law is concerned he did nothing wrong.//
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3025390/posts
He sure did. Here it is in his words:
//Mr. al-Turki has repeatedly claimed that his conviction was driven by anti-Muslim sentiment, and that he was simply treating his housekeeper according to Islamic custom...
“We are Muslim. We are different,” al-Turki continued. ”The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors.” //
**ISLAMIC CUSTOM
**WE ARE DIFFERENT [and consider ourselves above US law]
**BASIC MUSLIM BEHAVIORS [anyone opposing is guilty of anti-Islamic sentiment]
Yeah. ”The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors.” How dare we.
Slavery is a large part of the muslim “culture”, especially that of women. They are sold as brides and are the property of their “husband”. Before that they were the property of their father.
Yet the muslim religion is one of the protected classes and cannot be criticized.
Oops.
“He sure did” ended up out of place when put w/your quote — I meant “YEAH, he really did say that, believe it or not.”
Otw I find it unbelievable that one would come here and say, as al-Turki did, “We are Muslim. We are different. The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors.”
It’s Shariaa compliant!
I saw it first hand in Kuwait during are occupation there in 2003 - two separate cases of woman escaping and crossing our lines to seek a safe haven - my MP’s and I dealt with it - turned them over to the US consulate...just think about all the ones we didn’t know about — I’m sure it is far worst in Saudi Arabia than it is here in the US! There’s needs to be an educational campaign run to warn woman and never to accept jobs from Moslem countries...thing is - some of these woman may actually be Moslem!
We Christians have to remember that Muslims believe that every thing in the Koran is to be literally followed as rules to live by to live a Godly life.
If we outlaw basic Muslim behaviors we are outlawing a Godly life.
So naturally he upset.
On the other hand he should as an immigrant live by the rule “When in Rome do as the Romans do” to be a visitor with good manners.
If he wants to live life strictly according to Islamic Law he should return to an Islamic country and leave us in peace.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
-- Charles James Napier
A sex-slave operation in Lakewood, New Jersey was just broken up and a number of illegals arrested. They had been bringing young women in from Mexico and Central America with promises of work cleaning, babysitting, etc., then forcing them into prostitution.
Ah, the good old days.
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