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Cambodia bans its citizens from working in Malaysia as maids

Cambodia's ban (or at least suspension) comes after a number of its citizens have been reported as being beaten and raped while working here in Malaysia. Funny how that keeps happening in majority Muslim countries -- poor people from third world countries endure working in brutal conditions that closely resemble slavery and the antebellum plantations of the old American South. Unless governments like Cambodia's intervene as has been done in this particular instance, the masses are compelled by poverty and persistent unemployment in their homelands to keep coming to work in Muslim lands, despite all the horror stories that these forsaken people have likely heard about what happens far too often to other non Muslim workers in Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, ~~Pakistan~~ Muslim-occupied India, and others.

It is true that this Malaysian media article doesn't address the issue, but how many of these Cambodian maids were beaten, raped and otherwise brutalized by Muslims or Muslim employers while here in Malaysia? Consider that Malaysia already has a lengthy and sordid track record on human trafficking and systematically persecuting its own non Muslim population. And with the widespread depredations of Muslims towards non Muslims in other Muslim countries to also go by, we likely already have our answer. From "Cambodia stops its citizens from working as maids in Malaysia," The Star, 14 October 2011:

PHNOM PENH (Reuters): Cambodia has banned its citizens from going to work in Malaysia as maids, its prime minister said on Friday, following a series of horrific reports of beatings and rapes.

The order follows a similar ban imposed by Indonesia on its citizens from taking new jobs as domestic workers in Malaysia, where maids are common in middle class households, thanks in part to a large migrant labour pool.
“I would like to congratulate the prime minister for the suspension,” Cambodia opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua of the Sam Rainsy Party told Reuters after the decision by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Cambodia's Community Legal Education Center, which is working with abused domestic workers, said there had been reports of three maids who were killed in Malaysia, and two were raped and kept in isolation, their passports held from them.
An Bunhak, president of the Association of Cambodian Recruiting Agencies, said it would uphold the order from the government to stop sending people to work as maids in Malaysia.

Jihad warriors on the march from Cambodia to Southern Thailand

From TNA, with thanks to Peter in Bangkok:

Cambodian Muslims flock to Thailand's troubled South SA KAE0, May 19 (TNA) - Thai immigration officials on the Thai-Cambodian border have reported an unusual rise in the number of Muslim men from Cambodia travelling to Thailand's three southern border provinces.
More than a hundred Cambodian Muslims a day have recently crossed the border into Thailand, the deputy immigration chief at Aranyaprathet, Pol. Lt. Col. Nirut Reungjinda told TNA on Thursday.

That is about ten times more than usual, he said.

Thai immigration officials are thoroughly inspecting the Cambodian Muslims as the cross the border and making copies of their passports and travel documents.

''Most of them have informed our immigration officials they wanted to visit their relatives in southern Thailand. Some have said they were travelling further to Malaysia to attend religious studies,'' he said.

Oh, that makes it all right. We know that no jihadist activity ever takes place in mosques. (Search through the archives here to see just how sarcastic that is.)

Jihad in Cambodia

Hambali

Hambali, who has been involved in many Asian terrorist adventures, has been charged in Cambodia. From AP, with thanks to Nicolei:

Asia's top terror suspect, Hambali, and eight other alleged Muslim militants were charged yesterday with attempted murder in an unspecified terrorist plot to bomb targets in Cambodia.
A Cambodian court levelled the charges against Hambali and three others in absentia midway through the trial of five men who were arrested last year for allegedly training terrorists and planning attacks in the country.

Though the five were originally charged with terrorism, Judge Ya Sokhan changed the charge to 'attempted premeditated murder with the goal of terrorism' after a defence attorney argued that Cambodia had no anti-terrorism law.

The five men were ordered to remain in detention pending a new trial. No date was set.

In another surprising twist, the judge said Hambali and three others - identified only as Ibrahim, Zaid and Zakariya - faced the same charges.

It was the first time their names were mentioned in connection with the case.

Prosecutor Yet Chakriya told the court that all the suspects were 'plotting a plan to cause explosion, destruction of property and human life' in Cambodia.

He did not elaborate, and officials would not give details about the alleged plot.

The attempted murder charge carries a life imprisonment sentence - the same as the earlier terrorism charge. . . .

Hambali, an Indonesian whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, is said to be a key leader of the Jemaah Islamiah, Al-Qaeda's South-east Asian arm. He is believed to have spent several months in Cambodia last year and reportedly used the country as a staging ground from which to launch regional terror attacks. He was arrested in Thailand last August and is now in US custody.

It was not immediately clear where Ibrahim, Zaid and Zakariya were or what they were accused of doing.

The suspects present in court yesterday were Esam Mohammed Khidr Ali of Egypt, Abdul Azi Haji Chiming and Muhammad Yalaludin Mading of Thailand and Sman Ismael of Cambodia. Another Egyptian, Rousha Yasser, 33, also known as Yasser Elsayed Mohamed, is a fugitive.

Their trial stemmed from their membership of the Umm Al-Qura group, which operated a Saudi-funded Islamic school outside Phnom Penh.

Prosecutors accused them of using the school as a cover for training terrorists and planning attacks against Western interests in Cambodia.

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