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Doctor: Saudi Family Hammered Nails Into Sri Lankan Maid
AOL News ^ | August 25, 2010 | Dana Kennedy

Posted on 08/25/2010 3:50:08 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

(Aug. 25) -- A 50-year-old Sri Lankan woman who worked as a maid for a large family in Saudi Arabia for five months was allegedly tortured by some of the family members hammering nails into her body, doctors said.

The woman, who flew back to Colombo, Sri Lanka, from Riyadh on Saturday night, was brought to the hospital by her concerned children Monday. X-rays showed there were 23 nails embedded in her body.

"Some of the nails were 2 inches long," Dr. Prabath Gajadeera of Kamburupitiya Base Hospital told AOL News today. "Most of the nails were embedded in her arms and legs. She didn't even realize how many were in there."

Gajadeera said the woman told doctors that the Saudi family allegedly tortured her with nails and threatened her life with knives during her employment with them.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colombo; islam; maid; muslims; religionofpeace; riyadh; rop; saudi; saudiarabia; shariah; srilanka
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1 posted on 08/25/2010 3:50:11 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Muslim family values.


2 posted on 08/25/2010 3:51:23 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Oh I see just more Islamaphoba what is a few nails?


3 posted on 08/25/2010 3:52:31 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Kinda different than how they do things down and out in Beverly Hills, they all nailed the maid...


4 posted on 08/25/2010 3:53:04 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

OK, let’s not jump to conclusions. There could be a very peaceful and humane reason for pounding 23 nails into their maid. We’re just biased by our narrow Christian world view.


5 posted on 08/25/2010 3:53:42 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
“The nails were apparently not detected by airport security devices, Gajadeera said.”

23 up to 2” nails were not detected.

6 posted on 08/25/2010 3:53:45 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, who sent an envoy to the hospital to record her statement, plans to take action against the Saudi family who employed the woman and has informed the Sri Lankan Embassy in Riyadh and the Saudi Embassy in Sri Lanka, the Daily News of Sri Lanka reported today.”

OOOOOUUUUUHHHH!!! Now you’re in trouble!!
You have to pay, if you want to drive nails into our citizens. You can’t do it for free!


7 posted on 08/25/2010 3:54:46 PM PDT by Floribama
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Muslims are pigs. You can quote me on that.


8 posted on 08/25/2010 3:54:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: Proud2BeRight

All the security in the world doesn’t matter if nobody pays attention.


9 posted on 08/25/2010 3:55:24 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’ve been hearing stories about migrant workers in saudi for over ten years now. It makes a person wonder when is the UN going to start issuing statements?


10 posted on 08/25/2010 3:55:58 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

When you’ve got a hammer in your hand, every problem looks like a nail.


11 posted on 08/25/2010 3:56:26 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Give me one reason why we should not nuke SA then take their oil.


12 posted on 08/25/2010 3:59:22 PM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Islam, muslims, shariah, need I type more? This is sickening.


13 posted on 08/25/2010 4:00:02 PM PDT by vpintheak (Love of God, Family and Country has made me an extremist.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yea! A religion of Peace? Not on the Infidel’s Tortured and Dismembered Bodies! Islam.is a Cult of Hate Dispicable Human Torture! Nothing More!
For those who doubt, just visit a Muslim Country, a Mosque, or better yet, the White House under the current Obozo Administration!


14 posted on 08/25/2010 4:01:03 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: LibWhacker

What have you got against pigs that you would compare them with Muslims?


15 posted on 08/25/2010 4:01:22 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Digger
Give me one reason why we should not nuke SA then take their oil.

I'd go for hanging the adult members of this family and taking the majority of their wealth and giving it to the maid.

Nuking a country because of the sadistic actions of a single family seems a bit unreasonable to me.

16 posted on 08/25/2010 4:04:47 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
ReligionCult of PeaceDeath.
17 posted on 08/25/2010 4:04:54 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Are you suggesting an ulterior motive?


18 posted on 08/25/2010 4:08:23 PM PDT by cmj328 (Massachusetts Lt. Gov: Write In "Keith Davis, 9 Pheasant Dr., Holyoke" - writeinkeithdavis.com)
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To: Digger
Give me one reason why we should not nuke SA then take their oil.

Offhand, about the only reason that I can think of right at the moment is that it might possibly contaminate some of the oil with radioactive fission by-products, making it unfit for use...

But if I were to think about it a bit longer, I might come up with a few others (for example, there just might be some innocents mixed in with the evildoers)...

19 posted on 08/25/2010 4:12:02 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: skeeter

Actually, to be fair, I think it’s more of a Saudi thing than a muslim one. The Saudis are notorious all over the Arab world for abusing the hired help, whom they treat like slaves.


20 posted on 08/25/2010 4:12:13 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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