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Posted on 08/31/2007 6:15:42 AM PDT by NYer
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But you can’t take a Bible into Saudo Arabia.
“The term “immigrant” is itself too generic to define the reality of those who are working today to transform the face of the Gulf. “
Slaves to the Arabs. Doing work that rich oil baron Muslims won’t do or don’t know how to do. Bigot? No. Realist? Yes.
The UAE is becoming the aerospace hub of the middle east. Every major player in aviation is there or going there. That said, having lots of Filipina maids isn’t likely to create lots of Filipina citizens of the country. They won’t be able to have some Sharia law government there though or oppress the Christians. They will lose too much in business, which they have gained by being moderate and open. Hope their wealth will make other Muslims be more open.
Ironically ... just the reverse of the West where Muslims are being imported to do the work that well educated westerners refuse to do.
2. They have no hope for citizenship and will be deported in a blink of the eye if they do anything un-islamic. They will all be sent home one day.
3. How much of the local population is converting? That would be the real measure
GDP of Arab states with a population of 300m is less that that of Spain. You cannot build a prosperous economy on cheap, low skill labor.
In Germany that is certainly the case - the Turks came to Germany specifically as guest workers.
Muslims in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark and Sweden are there largely as "refugees" and pluralities if not majorities of them live on public assistance.
Muslims in the UK are a mix.
Every last Christian immigrant to the Muslim countries is there to work.
I would be surprised if employment was the motivation of more than half of Europe's Muslims.
“The true status of these workers, even of those who have been living in the Emirates for a number of years, is that of “expatriates,” persons whose presence in the country is strictly connected to the possession of a valid work contract, but who can never become residents or buy houses or property. Their destiny is bound to the decisions of their employers, who often hold their passports hostage out of fear that they will flee or become insubordinate.”
The Christians are coming back and might soon be the majority? A pretty misleading headline, as if they’re actually participants with rights in an oil rich Arab nation. As several have pointed out, their status is little better than indentured servants with a contract that’s difficult to enforce.
The way Muslims treat their hired help tells us a great deal about them.
The only example that I can find to that remark is Europe can’t find any doctors to work in their socialist medicine scandal.
What exactly do you mean? Cab drivers, deli workers? You need to get out of NY more often. No offense.
Yes..It is hard to get Europeans to blow up trains these days.
They are so lazy they get the Muslims to do it.
People are just so excitable - someone is sure to lose their head over this!
/black humor
with a little help from 
equals 
and the Middle East can finally have some 
Isn’t something like 40% of Saudi Arabia’s workforce non-Saudi?
Tell that to GW.
Regards
Filipinos in S.A. are essentially in a state of involuntary servitude, subjected to physical and sexual abuse, non-payment of wages, confinement, and withholding of passports as a restriction on their movement. Numerous Africans, including Christian Nigerian women and children trafficked into Saudi Arabia for commercial sexual exploitation. More than 35% of the S.A. population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (CIA World Fact Book, 2006 est.)
Right now it is illegal for any foreign worker, tourist or businessman to bring a crucifix, a Bible, a calendar with Christian holidays marked, or any other identifiably religious object into Saudi Arabia, even for private use.
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