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Slaves of Dubai
Vice ^ | 08/08/2012 | Ben Anderson

Posted on 12/29/2014 3:20:19 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski

Most people know Dubai for its massive skyscrapers and luxurious hotels, but few know that the city was built by modern-day slaves.

For months, the BBC's Ben Anderson hung out around the glittering, insane towers springing up in Dubai trying to infiltrate the community of expatriate workers who are putting them up. What he found when he finally got in was that the jewel of the Arab world is almost entirely built upon imported slave labor...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; oil
The prophet Malachi foretold of a day when the Arab Nations would rebuild to the stars of heaven (Obadiah) and once again be a potent adversary to Israel:

Malachi 1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. 2 ...4 Whereas Edom saith , We are impoverished , but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build , but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

James, the brother of Jesus, also wrote about people like this...

James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted , and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold , the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud , crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton ; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold , the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh .

1 posted on 12/29/2014 3:20:19 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Islam is, and always has been, the biggest slave-trader on the planet.

Back in the 60’s, even as a little hippie flower child, I knew this.

I could never understand why Black Americans would embrace Islam, even if their American version was a silly counterfeit.

How can people be so ignorant?


2 posted on 12/29/2014 3:37:06 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

b/c blacks want to be slave masters. get evens. just like the biggest homo fantasy is screwing a straight guy against their will.


3 posted on 12/29/2014 4:32:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

probably (sigh).


4 posted on 12/29/2014 4:36:59 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

and of course not all do. but any of them caught up in race, do.


5 posted on 12/29/2014 4:39:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

There are some brilliant Black people out there...and oddly enough, the more brilliant they are, the more CONSERVATIVE they are. LOL!


6 posted on 12/29/2014 4:41:15 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site
There are some brilliant Black people out there...and oddly enough, the more brilliant they are, the more CONSERVATIVE they are. LOL!

Any black person who escapes the crab bucket deserves respect.

7 posted on 12/29/2014 4:45:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I’ve visited Dubai several times...the most recent visit having been last month.I don’t know about “slavery” but several things are easy to see.1) There’s construction *everywhere*.2) Those construction sites are manned almost entirely by small,very dark skinned men.If you look closely you understand that they’re from India,Pakistan and Bangladesh.3)These men work in the most appalling heat. 4) Early in the morning and later in the day you see these dark skinned men being transported to/from construction sites in the most God-awfully maintained buses you can imagine,...death traps on wheels.That may,or may not,be slavery but it sure doesn’t look like fun.


8 posted on 12/29/2014 4:46:47 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: left that other site

“There are some brilliant Black people out there...and oddly enough, the more brilliant they are, the more CONSERVATIVE they are.”

Why is that odd? Brilliance does not cotter to being slaves to the left.


9 posted on 12/29/2014 4:53:34 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Gay State Conservative
That may,or may not,be slavery but it sure doesn’t look like fun.

I've been to Dubai many times and know exactly what you are talking about.

These workers are indentured servants. They sign contracts to come and work but before they earn a dime, they have to pay for their passage. And then they have to pay for their room and board. If they get injured or sick, they are sent back with nothing. At the end of the day they are practically slaves in all but the most literal definition.

And their lives are cheap. You probably noticed an absence of safety equipment being utilized by the Pakistanis working atop skyscrapers. This is because safety equipment is expensive whereas Pakistani laborers are not.

Very few of them ever earn enough money to have made their trips and their labor worthwhile but there are so many of them, they keep coming.

10 posted on 12/29/2014 4:54:12 PM PST by Drew68
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Yep same all over the gulf region....UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi, Bahrain etc ......and they each pay a “sponsor” or at least they did the few years I lived there......

Crazy place.....hotter than a snakes butt in a wagon rut......

Stay safe !


11 posted on 12/29/2014 6:00:11 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: dfwgator

Amen.


12 posted on 12/29/2014 6:21:44 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Well....not “odd” as in “weird”. “Odd” as in “rare”.


13 posted on 12/29/2014 6:22:47 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yep....PRIORITIES.


14 posted on 12/29/2014 6:23:41 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

yeah, i’d vote for walter williams or thomas sowell, in a heartbeat.

i wish they’d be nominated for speaker of the house. can you imagine walter williams as speaker?


15 posted on 12/29/2014 6:46:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I have a dream.....


16 posted on 12/29/2014 6:49:36 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

In Arabic , the language their so called God does his thinking in, the word for “black” and “slave” is the same. Just to show the real God has a sense of humor the Arabic word for someone who submits to Allah “Muslim” sounds similar to “Mozlem” which means “evil and unjust”.


17 posted on 12/29/2014 7:44:35 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Blacks and Muslims have been holding their fellow man in slavery for over 1300 years, and still do today in 60% of the world, especially on the African Continent.


18 posted on 12/29/2014 8:48:18 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Nateman

That IS funny!

Another one of these funny moments that include a pun in Arabic, was when General Allenby was able to liberate Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire’s vastly superior forces without firing a shot (supposedly), because the very,very British name “Allenby” sounded a lot like the Arabic “Allah Bey” meaning “Prophet of God”.

that happened a little less than a hundred years ago, and was one of the catalysts for the entire middle east situation today.


19 posted on 12/30/2014 5:26:56 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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