This story may be read in conjunction with another one in The Sunday Times (on April 3) about the small boys, often kidnapped in such places as Pakistan, who are then brought to the U.A.E., trained as camel jockeys, and if they survive (if any are thrown, or otherwise harmed, they apparently are left to die), are strapped onto the camels to "ride" them. A 6-year-old commands, I think, a market price of $800; a boy two years older is worth half as much.

Now that the full glare of publicity is on it, and not one second before, the U.A.E. now is making all kinds of noises about cleaning things up. It took outsiders, including a Pakistani, to show the cruel potentates of the United Arab Emirates -- people who have done nothing to deserve their fabulous wealth, nothing that merits the kind of lick-spittle obsequiousness with which they are treated not only by doormen and concierges but by government officials all over the Western world. Disgusting.

As for the Saudi "princess," one wonders what in hell she is doing in Winchester and in Arlington, Massachusetts? Why is she here? Her husband is wheelchair-bound; her six children are home-schooled. Why are they here? What conceivable "America" do they know about, are they part of, do they have loyalty to? Why is the family here, and will this woman, and her family, either be imprisoned or at the very least, deported once and for all, kit and caboodle? And what about all the other similar stories, about rich Saudis/Kuwaitis/U.A.E. people, in Florida, in London, everywhere that some maidservant manages to escape with a tale of horror -- being thrown down stairs, beaten, forced to clean toilets with her tongue, and so on -- these stories would, if gathered, tell us all we need to know about how domestic servants must be treated in the depths of darkest Saudi Arabia -- far from Western law enforcement and judges, and rights. The mere thought of what must go on, behind those thick doors and high walls all over Arabia, makes one shudder. A horror movie out of Stephen King.

One more thing:

The story above does not give all relevant details. Jader's relative, a certain Ammar Chamo, owns. or co-owns with her, certain businesses in and around Boston. It is under his name that her Winchester house is listed (no doubt because her husband is incapacitated, and she, being a woman, should not have property in her own name), and he who is apparently supplying the $1 million bond money to keep her at this point from going to jail. What with all the sums being mentioned, including a "wire transfer of $350,00 from Jader's sisters in Saudi Arabia," wouldn't you think that this woman could see her way clear to coming up with a bit more than $300 a month to pay her Indonesian servants whom she treats like slaves?

And in this treatment, she is no different from the Saudi "princess" who was arrested in Florida in the last year for throwing her maid down the stairs, or the various Saudis -- my god, there is one a month at least somewhere in this country -- who is accused of similar treatment of servants. And if you add in the Kuwaitis, and those from the Emirates, Bahran, Qatar, and so on, the list of those charged with savage mistreatment, here and in London, in Paris and Marbella (no, sorry, in Marbella and Paris they wouldn't charge them -- it is only in the Anglo-American sphere that the law is actually applied to rich Arabs, and then only recently, and intermittently).

As to looking a bit into the background of Jader and Chamo, a story in The Boston Globe offers this:

"Jader is president and treasurer of H&A International Inc." "housed in a Medford condominium building with numerous other companies, including A.N.Y. Corp., run by business associate Ammar Chamo..."

Oh, if you google Jader and Chamo, you will find democracy at work --the records of a meeting with the Board of Selectmen (or some similar group) in the Town of Arlington, fining Chamo for chopping down some trees and violating the code. It makes wonderful reading -- the Saudi used to getting his own way, in the same manner that Prince Bandar ordered the complete razing of a hill, violating all sorts of regulations no doubt, in order to give himself a better "view" from his property in Aspen (has anyone in Aspen looked into that little scandal? Why not?).

One would like to know a bit more about the "A.N.Y. Corp." -- the ANY Corporation, run by Noman, of Nowheresville? Hmmm. What's it all about?

The investigation should not leave the matter of Mr. Chabo and his "businesses" left unstudied. And why was the courtroom flooded with "an overlfow crowd of supporters" as now seems to be standard in all cases involving Arabs or Muslims. It even included "two representatives of the consulate" who "declined to comment."

People who behave like primitives are primitive. It makes no difference if, as in the U.A.E., the camels they strap the boys aged five and six too are well-groomed, or their hotels are the most disgustingly luxurious in the world. That is not civilization. Al Jader may live in New England, but she is not of New England, and never will be, never can be.

She is about to encounter a legal system that has not always performed at its best when it comes to Arabs and Muslims, often letting them 'scape whipping. And then the State Department has so often entered into lawsuits, and prevented recovery by, for example, those held hostage in Iran or elsewhere.

This kind of intervention must come to an end. In fact, the best way to recapture the olgiopolistic rents charged by the Saudis and other Arabs may be to recover, through the legal sysem, for all the damage that is done by the funding of mosques and madrasas that are connected, in the end, to promotion of terrorism. A connection is enough; it need not be a straight line.

A lot of what the Saudis possess in the West consists of illiquid assets -- valuable real estate. At some point, seizure of such assets, as the assets of German nationals were seized during World War II, has to be considered. It makes sense. The Western public does not have to endure what it has endured, and it does not have to continue to host families such as that of Al-Jader.

One more question. Given that so many Saudis studying in this country in the past were known for their fast ways with women and cars, and given the number of accidents that resulted in damage or death to Americans from Saudi drivers, where did Al-Jader's husband have his accident? Who else was involved? Just curious.

Posted by: Hugh at April 4, 2005 2:36 PM

She has no worries.....The Saudis will call the State Department, who'll contact their boss, who'll contact her boss, then the little Saudi bitch will go free like nothing ever happened.

Posted by: DCWatson at April 4, 2005 3:39 PM

So sad, so very sad that people of this ilk exist and are allowed to be in the United States. I shudder to think how badly they treat their servants in Saudi Arabia...

Posted by: epg at April 4, 2005 5:08 PM

Good moslems go to heaven and ALL kaffirs to hell?

Posted by: TBH_1 at April 4, 2005 5:12 PM

She has no worries.....The Saudis will call the State Department, who'll contact their boss, who'll contact her boss, then the little Saudi bitch will go free like nothing ever happened. Posted by: DCWatson

Yep, nice cozy relationship between the House of Bush and House of Saud. Sad itsn't it?]

All foreign workers, including overpaid Americans, who enter Saudi Arabia are slaves. They turn over their passports to their employers, and are thus at their mercy.

There is slavery in Saudi Arabia, women are slaves to men. A woman has no ID, passport and cannot travel without permission of her husband, if no husband, her father, if no father her son.

All women must have a male guardian, which is the exact situation in Iraq today.

Foreign workers from third world countries are
treated even worse than Americans, they have absolutely no rights, the women (maids) are raped and abused at will.

American and European expatriates make big bucks, but never the less are dhimmis, who are dealt with arbitrarily by the Saudis.

The inside of a Saudi Passport states that the bearer is the property of the Sauds.

Saudi Arabia is the most secretive society in the world, even more secret than the ex Soviet Union.
Virtually nothing is known, and the Saudis keep no records or statistics as regards abuse, divorce, rape or any other event which we consider criminal, but which is condoned by the Qur'an and the religious authorities.

"I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave."
King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993

If I can do this to Americans I can do it to you. What chance do you think you have? I have power. I have connections."
King Fahd's prior business partner publicly torturing Vietnam Veterans in front of other foreign workers.

Guess who is the latest most high powered Saudi Slave?

Posted by: Giaour at April 4, 2005 9:04 PM

Since the advent of human life, there has been an inclination towards a higher power. The created know nothing, but the hope of every one of them is everlasting life.

The solution of humankind was the creation of a "universal" system. This system was created to negate the fear of annihilation by handing over the desire of everlasting life to the order of the elite.

These "movers" of society accepted this empowerment and created a system which would maintain their existence while guaranteeing control over their subjects.

As time progressed, the initiatives became dogma, mankind became indoctrinated and the creators became gods. We still serve them to this day.

Posted by: The Highest Roo of the Rascalite Order at April 4, 2005 9:37 PM

Thanks, Hugh and Giaour, for your excellent posts. My family and I helped a young woman from the Philippines escape from Saudi student family at a nearby university. She had been physically and mentally abused and yet she was a Muslim herself. Perhaps the most shocking thing to us at the time, although it would not be now that I know better, is that the fact that the local Muslim community turned against the girl, called her a liar and stood by the arrogant Saudi husband and wife in their denials. I agree that the Saudi princess will probably disappear into the night,by plane, chartered to rescue her and get her safely back to the KSA. The State Dept. is well aware of many of these situations with slaves being brought by their Arab masters to the US and yet they just happily keep stamping those visas.

Posted by: maryrose at April 4, 2005 9:54 PM

Robert for President
Hugh for State
DC for Defense

Posted by: cubed at April 5, 2005 9:31 AM

This case will be a tough one to prosecute--even without the clientitis infecting State and the extensive networks the Sa'udis and other Gulfis have built among wealthy and influential Americans. Think of standards of evidence required in US courts, and how the burden of proof will be on the prosecution. If the maids allege they were made to lick the toilet, where are the witnesses demanded by US legal standards? Unless the two maids' testimonies are 150% corroborative, it will be the word of the bitch princess against each of her victims. You can also count on a high-price defense lawyer (who probably voted for Kerry, Giaour) to do all he can to present the complainants as disloyal, ungrateful, money-grubbing little nobodies out abuse the laws of our great land to get what they can out of the beautiful, glamorous, suave, polished, cosmopolitan (when it's useful) [bitch] princess. Why, I'll even bet Princess Hana Jaber speaks French (even with accent queer), while these two maids probably barely speak English, and mostly jabber away in Bahasa Indonesia and some local tongue.

Maryrose, as for your Moro friend, I'm sure the local Ummah turned against her because people anywhere believe the first one to bring gossip to them--especially if the mosque is paid for by the Gulf Arabs. I'm also wondering about a Malaysian friend of mine who despised the Arabs as insufferably rude folks. Maybe it wasn't just the problem of the extra-ornate systems of etiquette found among Austronesian peoples (think of some of the Polynesian systems of tabu), but perhaps the guy had poor relations who brought home horror stories about employment in the Gulf.

Posted by: Kepha at April 5, 2005 9:34 AM

Kepha, anyone who brings shame or disrepute on a fellow muslim has committed the crime of slander. I lived among muslims for a long time wondering why they never, never said bad things about another, including psychopaths like Zarkawi with whom they clearly were disgusted. For a quick ref, check the comments on Reliance of the Traveler on the Amazon site, there's a nice discussion of the problem.

Malaysians and Indonesians have no liking for Arabs, resenting exactly their imperialist and chauvinistic manners. Yet at the same time they are steadily and slowly subverted by the colonialism that is Islam, losing steadily their memory of their past. V.S. Naipaul discusses this at length in Beyond Belief. The Arabs know this--they don't travel to SE Asia to proselytize, but instead fund the imams of SE Asia to Mecca for a year, for religious training and development. Fadl describes in an article how the University of Al Azhar became a wahhabi stronghold by the steady purchasing of cleric after cleric, many of whose views changed notably and dramatically after receiving $100,000 stipends from the KSA.

Posted by: longtime lurker at April 5, 2005 10:23 AM

In Arlington, Mass. contact:
Ms. Shari Baron
Human Rights Commission
10 Raleigh St.
Arlington, Mass. 02476

&/or

Ms. Christine Carney
Human Rights Commission
fax #: 781-643-6456

When I called Arlington, Mass Town Clerk's Office regarding this, no one knew about it. The nice woman I spoke with did agree that the "Princess" was probably not hanging out at the local bar&grill on a Saturday night ... indeed, this was the first anyone in the Town Clerk's Office had heard about the local slave-holder. I'm certain the good people of Arlington are well aware that Lincoln freed the slaves, and even though their reclusive neighbor did not abide by the law, they do.

It's my belief that the local population of Arlington (and actually in spite of the Human Rights Commission) could be really instrumental in modeling effective behavior in this case .... which could be really serviceable in the other situations sure to follow nationwide. With this in mind, I urge all interested parties to write to Ms. Baron.

Any other ideas? Anyone care to compose a persuasive letter/fax template? Or, do we have permission to use your article, Hugh?

Posted by: Daisytoo at April 5, 2005 3:59 PM

Sure.

Posted by: Hugh at April 5, 2005 8:56 PM

Longtime: Yes, I've been in other cultures that don't like airing their dirty laundry in public, and think "He may be a violent drunk, but he's still my father."

On the other hand, I suspect that if you had a local mosque made up mostly of and supported mostly by Malay/Indonesian/Filipino immigrants and the maids went to them for help, they'd probably be pretty quick to take the bitch princess down a peg or two. My guess is that given the Sa'udi money in so many mosques and other Islamic institutions, the abused servants aren't likely to get a hearing from their co-religionists.

Posted by: Kepha at April 6, 2005 5:46 AM

Another point: I know a former judge in NYC who says that a lot of immigrant women, even Muslim women of poor education, quickly learn in the USA that if they're battered spouses, the courts are on their side. I suspect that if the same message would get out to forced labor in Gulf Arab households in the USA, we'd see a lot more of this kind of case. The problem is how closed such households are to outside scrutiny.

Posted by: Kepha at April 6, 2005 5:49 AM

Islamic slavery alert from the Saudi Institute

No, this is just plain exploitation, of the sort which has been known to happen in a few western countries as well, in a country not known for its respect for its poorer religious brethren. There are posts on at least one Muslim blog condemning this awful incident.

Posted by: Yusuf Smith at April 7, 2005 7:57 AM