Blood, Sweat and Tears - 18 Aug 07 - Part 2

Al Jazeera exposes the appalling conditions facing many Asian labourers in the Gulf.

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News & Politics

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• Aljazeera
• Blood
• Sweat
• Tears
• Asian
• labourers
• Gulf

[ktzenz]

Why doesn't Al Jazeera Arabic run this story, or something like it? It's the Arabic-speakers who are the citizens in the Gulf; they should see this as well!

[junas125]

And these countries call themselves Muslim countries. They spend considerable time screaming salah salah on the streets (referring to Saudi Arabia) and forcing women to wear the burkah, but they do nothing to implement the true essence of the religion they claim to preserve. Hypocrites!

[TheBalcom]

@Britishguy18 That's the part I found interesting. The UAE is rolling in money.

[junas125]

@Britishguy18 Oh please, I have lived in the Gulf, I have seen first hand exactly how they are treated. The fact that they come from poor countries with appalling conditions is no excuse for the companies in the UAE to mistreat them. Their passports are taken from them quite often and they can't return even if they want to.

[Britishguy18]

@junas125 Because my friend the labourers are not treated as bad as this video proclaims, this is far to extreme! The UAE are good enough to give any sort of accomidation they wouldnt have better back in their own countries or some of the other arabic countries! Now thats actually incorrect they speak up but wont do much about it as their governments know its none of their damn business, we dont intrude in your countries affairs(Emirati's) so dont intrude with ours.

[junas125]

@Britishguy18 Why can't anyone outside evaluate the treatment of laborers in your country. If there are excessive and abusive use of power and authority, people all over the world speak up. We live in a globalised, information obsessive world now, get used to it.

[junas125]

@nice0071 First of all I am not a Hindu, I am a Muslim, and even if I was a Hindu it wouldn't change the fact that in these countries workers are terribly abused and have no rights whatsoever. My point was simple. There is great emphasis in our religion on treating workers right, go through the Hadiths of the prophet Muhammad(p.b.u.h) yet there is huge emphasis in KSA on forcing people to go for salah etc but no real emphasis on workers rights.I'd like to see a mutawwa actually speak up on this.

[antiazazel]

Sollution: Competant leadership umongst the workers to start a underground labor union. Orgenized strikes and every possible way to cause employers not to pay "job Agencies", etc. Regardless of the conciquences it may cause an international outcry. A good willed lawyer should also be representing the workers intrests.

[nadiahas]

@RanaRajpootana Kenyans?....who is a kenyan?

Yr God has 8 hands(bagwanji). Is he an octopus or god? May you rot in hell after yr death. How i would be aroused to hear yr regrets and torture on the barbequed stove of the hell fire.

[nice0071]

@RanaRajpootana GO DRINK SOME COW PISS AND GO TO THAT MONKEY AND ASK FOR FORGIVENSS

MAD MAN

AND IF HE DOES NOT FORGIVE TRY THE

RATS

WHAT A RELIGION

HA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHHA AHBAHAHAHA HAHAHAH

[nadiahas]

@RanaRajpootana ....aah what a waste of emotion if i would cling on replying to your low class comment. R u a toilet cleaner in Dubai who is underpayed AND NOW expressing yr anger here on youtube? Get a life faggot