Talking about oppressive mentality, you can include UAE in that list of the middle eastern countries no matter how much they try (very hard) to pretend otherwise to the rest of the world.
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do you have any personal observations/examples in the UAE?
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Countless. I have personally met people with oppression stories of their own. Conditions are far worse for the expatriate women. Personally, I was physically abused by a local arab woman on the road. When I complained to police, it turned out that she was wife of a police officer who came and showed me his ID and started verbally abusing me too. At the police station, I had to sit 12 hours only to have a complaint filed against that abuse but they never did and kept insisting on 'reconciliation'. I got fed up and then left when another police officer there requested me to accept an apology "for his sake" on her behalf. I was told unofficially that there were various similar cases.
I was most horrified to know the story from a friend of a friend who has recently returned to her family after being banned from entering UAE again because her sponsor reported her as 'illegal'. When the girl's family tried to talk to the immigration officer to tell them that her employer's complaint was biased, they sent her to jail instead. She was PHYSICALLY abused at the immigration office by two different local women before being sent to jail. One of them threw stuff on her face, another closed the door and beat her up in the presence of three other women officers sitting there. She had to scream to be rescued from that local officer by other officers sitting in other offices.
After she was sent to jail, her family kept following up with her sponsor. One of the representatives of this sponsor 'unofficially' accepted that the complaint was biased but he also admitted that there was nothing they could do to have the sponsor take back the complaint because since the sponsor was a huge government organization, the reputation factor would come into picture. They were trying hard to have her released from jail. They had given an air ticket to the immgration as per their requirement. When her brother and cousin visited the immigration office worried because she had not reached home until then, a woman officer told them, "If you came back here again, I would make sure that she is not released from jail for another few months."
At jail, she saw various cases of physical and verbal abuse on prisoners by the women police. She was not even allowed to pray by those so called 'muslim' officers. A woman police took away the prayer mat from her which she somehow had managed to find.
There she met too many other educated girls like her who were stuck there without a crime. Their lawyers used to come daily but received a 'khalli walli' attitude from the jail officers. Also she met some poor, illiterate women whose sponsors sent them to jail by reporting them as illegals when they tried to report sexual/physical abuse on them. These women were in jail for several months, some even for years with nobody to release them so that they could go back to their home countries.
This girl was lucky to get out of there finally. She is now aware of several real life practices and examples of abolishing human rights in that place. It is happening so openly but nobody to stop them as that country does not have a single NGO there working for human /women rights. It is hard to type here all of those stories of other girls I heard from her. One I recall right now is where a christian girl was being questioned by the immigration officer and when she came to know that the girl was christian, the female burka clad immigration officer told her, "If you are a christian, you are not supposed to be in this country." This is the mentality the officers holding important positions at government organizations hold. Makes you wonder, should all those european christian investors withdraw their huge invesments if being 'christians', they are not supposed to be in that country?
Another incident where an Egyptian girl was being deported with a life ban to enter the country again because a local woman at her clinic disliked her and through her influence on her sponsor, they complained to immigration that she was sufferring from hepatitis at the time of renewal of her employment visa for another three years. As soon as she heard that, she went for a complete check up on her own from a different clinic, they said she was perfectly okay. Before she could go to any court with her other reports, she was arrested. And once you are at the immigration, there remains no hope. She tried her best to tell the immigration the truth of the incident that she was not sufferring from any deadly disease but they wouldnt listen to her. She was kept in the jail with chains in her feet and hands. And then she was deported.
This friend of my friend has almost lost her mind. Is in a state of deep depression and sometimes talks crazy. She keeps asking her family crazy questions regarding that unfortunate accident. She is so bitter that her family is scared of talking to her. They are thinking of getting professional counseling for her.
She did mention that the group of educated girls she met in the jail had vowed to create a group on facebook and they would try to get as many girls as possible to become a member of that group and write their story for other people to have awareness of what is going on there under the curtain of modernization, development and peace. But she is still not in a state of doing anything about it.
She was not paid her gratuity by her sponsor. She was not paid for her ticket. She was not allowed to go to her bank to withdraw the savings she had made while working there for several years. She was deported with a life ban whereas all her blongings, her money still remains there. All of this needs to be settled which will take a long time but she is still recovering from the mental trauma she went through.
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Ambassador; those stories are horrific. can you name the places these event occured?
Facebook is a good idea i think, maybe someone can start one on thier behalf...
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Ma Mooli, all of those incidents took place in the most modern middle eastern country of all - UAE.
For facebook community, each of those girls should write their own story but many of those girls have not been able to keep the contact. She was only able to communicate with that european christian girl who was finally released after a week of this girl's release.
This christian girl, daughter of a very wealthy buesiness man who happens to be a european christian too, owner of a company with branches in many parts of europe and one in Dubai. But since he and his family is christian, he is not welcomed in UAE as per that immigration woman officer so I am guessing, he is going to withdraw his investment and close this branch in Dubai for the saftey of his family? As per what I came to know, this christian girl has two masters degrees in management and social sciences. She was going to attend a meeting with her clients at crowne plaza, dubai when she was arrested by police and asked to produce her passport. She was not carrying it with her that time so she was taken to the cell. After she produced her passport, she came to know that her visa had expired and she had over stayed for 2 months (it was due to their own negligence). As soon as her father who was on a business trip outside UAE, came to know of that mishap, he flew back to release her daughter who was on her father's sponsorship. He used to come daily to pay the fine for her over stay and produced all the required documents as per their requirements but still she had to stay in jail for several months as the authorities kept postponing her case with nobody to explain the reason why.
She was finally released too but was put no life time ban as her sponsor (her own father) took her back. But with this friend of mine, her sponsor (a government org.) did not take their complaint back even though one of their representative her family was in contact with admitted (unofficially) that it was a mistake on their part but still they cannot take back their complaint of 'absconding' against her which caused her a life time ban.
This Pakistani girl grew up there, studied there, worked there for several years of her life on her father's sponsorship and then on her employer's sponsorship only to be declared an 'illegal' in a matter of few seconds and was thrown out of the country she called 'home' without being allowed to take along or sell her belongings there. And here she is struggling to get back to normal life.
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Majority of the girls there were uneducated poor women on 'domestic workers' (housemaids) visa whose sponsors had got them arrested for one or the other reason. There were only these 7 girls who were highly educated stuck there for no crime but kept in jail with those housemaids. Many of those housemaids who were able to communicate with these girls told them their stories which also proved they were in jail for no crime of their own but their sponsors'. 300 girls in one tiny, stinky room with one bathroom with broken wash basin and drains. They had to sleep in the passage or one girl over the other because there was no space for so many girls in that room. Two of these girls were from Lebanon so they were able to somehow get the attention of those harsh women jailers some of the times (because they could speak arabic). But almost every time you would call them, they would only scream, "YALLAH YALLAH GO GO". They requested them to shift them to some other cell but they said there was no other place.
She saw atleast two cases where two different girls needed female sanitary napkins but they had to stay without that for two days because either they wouldnt even let them speak for their need only screaming, "YALLAH YALLAH, GO GO", or wont understand what they were saying, or wouldnt care. Unhygienic, bad food. This friend was all bones when she returned. A nightmare in a nightmare... atleast for those 7 girls.
This friend tried to tell them at every chance she could get that she had some funds in her bank she needed to take before being deported but she only got, "YALLAH YALLAH GO GO" as an answer. She came to know 2 days before she was flying. She again tried to tell them that she needs to go to the bank, at that time, the woman jailer said, "Why you didnt tell us before? Now there is no time." She said she had been telling them since the first day but nobody paid attantion. The woman jailer said, "Now you cannot do anything. You will have to leave here whatever you had."
There were about 10 african girls working in a female salon were arrested because their sponsor and employer (a local woman) had failed to make some sort of cards for each of them working there. One of those african girls told my friend that one card costed 1000 dirhams each so the sponsor was saving 10,000 dhs. Although, she was making billions from these girls who used to make over international models for modelling shows / cat walks at burj al arab apart from the usual salon services. Not that they were being paid fancy compensations for their full time jobs. Apart from that, they used to work over time without being paid for it. Their employer was also arrested along with these girls but was released after paying bribe. Whereas these girls were stuck there for months with no hope to be released.
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Alot of different girls on domestic servant's work permit had the same story to share. In addition to working without any compensation (because they were told by their sponsor cum employer that they have to cover up the cost of their visa by cutting their salaries hence not being given a single penny), they were also sexually or physically abused by their sponsors. When they could not take it anymore, they either reported or ran away. Housemaids who ran away to save their lives were reported 'absconding' by their sponsors. And cases where these housemaids reported the sexual / physical abuse, the sponsor always somehow managed to get out but the maids got to be deported hence waiting in jail for their 'turn'. They did not have money to buy a ticket to go back. So there were living in jail.
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stThat stuff is pretty sickening. I didnt expect something like that happening in places like dubai...but...i guess they're still way behind.
I guess these sponsorers ought to be named and shamed.. so otherfolks dont fall in a similiar trap!..
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There is a lady (I forgot her name) who started sheltering these troubled women a couple of years ago. And started fighting to get their rights legally settled as per the law. But she was victimized by the local media and she gained very negative reputation when she started exposing these men involved so that they could be punished but... instead of fixing the problem, she started facing a great deal of impediments for what she was doing from the govt. The chief of Dubai police gave out some very negative staements about her. Her fault....? She tried to expose those men who belonged to some....... respectable families of UAE.
I am trying to find that article on the net. That will be another eye opener.
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The local newspapers were forced to sell fabricated negative stories about this American woman “Sharla Musabih” when she made some influential enemies in dubai’s society. The below link provides little bit of introduction of that society.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/world/middleeast/23dubai.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Here, I remember reading a very exposing article but looks like they were forced to take it off the net. I’ve tried searching the whole blog but cant find it anywhere:
http://word.world-citizenship.org/word/index.php/wp-archive/1148
Looks like a few very informatory articles (written by Sharla herself) I read in the below link earlier have also been taken of. Not much to read here anymore but still you can try:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/21/AR2007052101725.html
Came across these interesting videos about her recently added on youtube.com. It’s just been one month. Im guessing, these will be taken off too:
Also search google by her name, you may come across some more articles.
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Amazing how she mentions in one of the links, "it's not pakistan". Has she ever seen any pakistani girl from a decent family?
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Yet these links do not present a true picture. The conditions are much much much more worse than shown in these videos.
These women in the videos are a handful of those who were lucky to get to the 'shelter' but those who end up getting caught by the bigger monster (immigration / jail) after running away from the smaller one (their sponsor) are the real victims. The most disheartening part of all for these women is that even the govt. does not support them despite knowing that they are the victims at the hands of local arab men/women. Instead they want to cover it all up and deport them with bans so that not to spoil the 'civilized' and educated reputation / image of the local men and women they are working so hard to achieve at the int'l level. That'll all be a waste then, isnt it? So anyone who wants to raise a voice against injustice OF THE GOVT. / govt. representatives / govt. organizations (like the brother of this friend's tried to), they are shut off with worse consequences so that they would keep it shut to avoid the worst. That's exactly what happened to this friend of mine.
No Sharla, it is not a village anymore because villagers are very kind hearted, innocent people. What you have there in the form of UAE is a JUNGLE full of animals running around to have their appetites / greed filled. And that all is at the expense of immigrants.
It is not just the housemaids who suffer inhumane treatment / injustice and end up in jail but expatriates working in all classes. If the govt. fairly and honestly took an action against the ACTUAL criminals, a majority of local women and men working at some senior govt./non govt. posts will end up in jail and those immigrants in the jails will be free to breath in free air. What Im trying to say is that the reality of dhuuuubhaiii is that if you're an expatriate and you are disliked by or get in an untasteful accident with any local man or woman, you will end up in deep sh!t. That is what I have analysed is the root cause of the problem. There is no sense of fairness.
This friend told me how each and every single girl in jail who communicated with her used to curse the govt. and its' people the in worst kind of way because only they knew how it feels to go through the humiliation of being locked up in jail WITHOUT A CRIME.
It is interesting to note however that in the entire region of UAE, it is an American (brought up in America) who had the courage to be the one trying to help the victims of cruelty of the local people.
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SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 1 OUT OF 3 - 06.32 mins
"Some people rescue animals, I rescue people".
Because in such a modern city like dhuuuuubhaiiii, 'people' (expatriates) live a life worse than animals. If you're looking for better opportunities in life, go anywhere in the world and retain your self respect and maintain your dignity. In UAE, as an expat, you will lose that only and there is no replacement for those two things. Majority of immigrants who go there do not realise this but unconciously or conciously accept to living at a 3rd grade citizen status. People, dont run after money, please! Respect yourselves!
SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 2 OUT OF 3 - 07.02 mins
"Shamsa (Sharla's daughter) wants to give birth in America"
Why? What does the UAE lack? Oh yeah, basic human rights!
SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 1 OUT OF 3 - 09.00 mins
"The meaning of being a muslim is that you are a human right activist. The minute you say Ashhadu an la ilaha ill allah, you become a human rights activist."
Food for thought? Makes you wonder... is UAE a muslim country? Come to think of it, is there ANY muslim country in the world? Im sure there are many human rights activists in many countries around the world. Does anyone have an idea what country has the largest number of activists? Is that America by any chance? If yes, as per Sharla's definition of a 'muslim' America has the most number of muslims (not by birth but by action).
Reminds me of this friend who told me how she requested too many different women jailors to give her a prayer mat because she wanted to pray but all they had for her was, "YALLAH YALLAH, GO GO!". In search of a prayer mat, she had to somehow sneak into the reception area early in the morning when their door was opened for breakfast. At the reception she saw a prayer mat and a fat 'muslim' jailor sleeping right next to it on a chair. She wanted to wake her up (as per her usual politeness) to ask if she could take that prayer mat but then recalled she was in a 'muslim jail', so she quickly picked the mat (which was taken away from her by another 'muslim' jailer) without waking her up and rushed back to to her cell where another african christian girl hugged and congratulated her on that achievement. She fondly talks about this african christian girl. She even told her parents, if she had stayed there for another few days, she would have probably converted to christianity. Her parents had nothing to say on that because they understand and feel every single moment of mental torture and depression she sufferred and they wish to meet and thank those christian girls in jail who gave their daughter moral support in jail. Because she would have lost her mind if she had to deal all by her own with those muslim jailers.
SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 3 OUT OF 3 - 09.40 mins
"Sharla is still waiting for her licence."
Since like... 2002?
Hi all,
I remember posting about this girl's story a while ago on this website which is what has brought me back here.
I am talking about this girl whose parents had migrated to the UAE more than two decades ago. She was brought up, got educated there along with her other siblings. She was working with a government organization there. As a Pakistani, she sufferred extreme oppression for a couple of years by her (women) emarati superiors.
She visited Pakistan. Her plan was to look for a new job upon her return to UAE. But upon her return from Pakistan, on the airport, she was told that her name was 'black listed' because her employer had lodged a complaint to the immigration authorities that she was 'absconding'. She tried to explain to them that that was a fake complaint & that she had permission from her seniors in three offices (The head office, her work base and the immigration incharge for the employees) for travelling to Pakistan.
She begged the immigration officers at the airport to investigate the matter with the organization officers who were well aware of her situation and that she had not 'run away' as the complaint said. But immigration officers refused to let her go. Her family was there to pick her from the airport but they did not let her go but put her in the cell as an 'absconding' criminal.
The next morning, they took her to the related immigration one by one where she was physically & verbally abused by the immigration officers (emarati women). She had to scream out for help to save her when the men officials in the same office came to her rescue. They did not let any of her family meet her but took her to another emirate (sharjah) in a 'criminal van'.
sharjah immigration allowed her to meet her brother & cousin. But told them to arrange to pack her bags & send her back to Pakistan immidiately because she has been imposed put a life ban to enter all the GCC countries because she had absconded from her employer. Her brother & cousin tried to explain to those officials everyone that the complaint against her was fake. They told her that she grew up, got educated in that country, all her family was living in that country, how could she 'run away'....... But none in the authorities were willing to listen to their plea. All they wanted was to "send her back immediately". Her brother was shocked at the injustice. He tried to talk to them, explain to them that the ban being imposed on her was unfair as she had done nothing wrong. Another emarati officer there who had thrown stuff (like pen, etc.) on her face did not like all that. She told her brother & cousin that before they were willing to let her with them & arrange for her return but now (because her brother had dared to question their unjust punishment to her based on a fake complaint), they would not let her go.
They forced her into another cell while her brother cried, begging them for justice. As per the girl, she was later shifted to a jail & physically & verbally abused. All of that....... for absolutely NO CRIME. Her crime was her brother's plea for justice & the fact that she considered UAE her 'home'. She had refused to migrate to canada as per suggestions from many of her friends as all her family was settled in UAE & she did not want to leave them to go anywhere. She always considered Pakistan a 'second home' before this incident.
How the family managed to get her out of jail is a complete different story altogether. I think I already mentioned in the thread earlier what she was made to go through in jail. Her family did manage to get her out of jail. They agreed to the unjust punishment of the life time ban on her to enter any GCC countries. They just wanted their daughter back. They had to use some strong 'wassta' to get her out as the bigger monster (the immigration) had no plans to let her free.
Right now, I have returned with the updates because after all that trauma the family has gone through since March 2008, they see dim for their girl being reunited with them. She was forced to live in Pakistan all alone so her mother & sister have moved back to live with her. Her family was trying to get things settled by following the legal procedures. They had all the hope they would be given justice by the government of UAE. But everytime they tried to approach the court and legal authorities, they got only one answer from them, "We cannot do anything."
A very authentic source broke to them that the reason legal authorities are declining to help them could be because probably in her workplace, any of her emarati seniors has used some strong influencial 'waasta' probably from the 'royal' family which is why it might be impossible to get rid of the ban. Upon investigating further, they discovered that some kind of criminal case has been lodged against her with sharjah immigration authorities. They tried to find out the nature of that fake criminal case which has been lodged against her by sharjah immigration authorities but they could not. Her father believes that probably that was done after her brother tried to talk to the immigration authorities in sharjah. And based on that case is probably why they forced her to go to jail.
I am traumatized by listening to this girl's story. Her life, her career is destroyed. You can imagine what state the whole broken up family is in. Other than the other psychological issues that girl sufferred after this incident, she has recently broken the news to her family that she is converting to christianity. In jail, she had met up with a group of christian girls who supported her, talked to her, made her stay positive when she had almost lost her mind. She says she can never forget the moral support she had received by a group of christian girls who treated her like she was a family while her own muslim brothers & sisters of the modern land treated her like 'filth' because she was a Pakistani expatriate living in their land. Her family is devastated to know her plan but they have no answer for her. They themselves are losing their hope in the 'great just arab land' of UAE. Her remaining family is also planning to leave the land which brought the family so much misery through breaking it. Their daughter is made to suffer for the crimes which she never comitted.
The above case has co-incided with the case of Dr. Aafia. So, it naturally comes to my mind. But Dr. Aafia is lucky to have US citizenship and the fact that she is in US so she was offerred a free trial. Regardless of the outcome of the trial, she was atleast allowed to have a free trial even though the common Pakistanis do not keep from enchanting against america at any given opportunity. But here, this Pakistani girl is not being given a chance to even know why all those fabricated complaints / cases against her have been lodged & the courts have refused her family to help with anything. Her family wants to persue her case with the UAE government through legal procedures but they are not even allowed to open her case. Every time they go to the court or any legal / immigration authority, they are told, "We cannot help you."
Personally, I am simply blown by not only the above but also by so many more cases of the human right abuse I have found out in the past two years. A recent case I came to know of is about another emarati man involved in bringing the man / labor power into the country by way of manipulation & then chargning them for the same, forcing them into a slavery life style. This way, he puts them into high amounts of debts & they cannot leave until their emarati 'sponsor' wants them to. So, they're forced to work until they have paid off their debt to the sponsor and until the sponsor desires them to.
Oh I have headache. I cant take this. Every new day, I find myself being thankful to Lord for giving me a free, independent land to live in which Pakistanis do not appreciate. This girl's and many other cases have given me a new found identity as a Pakistani. I love my freedom, my independence in this country despite all of the problems caused by the anti Pakistan forces. Daily, I thank God for giving me Pakistan so that I do not have to suffer the humiliation in any arab country for being an outsider. And I am not forced to suffer an ill treatment by the western people for being a 'muslim' & a Pakistani because of all the shame the CIA agent, USAMA BIN LADEN has brought to all of the muslims of the world to fulfil his lust & desire of seeing high rise buildings, big cars in dhoobhaaiiii to gain appreciation of the world & prove that arabs are more capable than herding the camels and the sheeps.
What that muslim CIA agent does not understand though is that those high rise buildings, big expensive cars, gamble houses, easy access to alcohol, prostitution & his love of materialism & dream of worldly development of his favourite arab land (dhooobhaaii) might gain him all the appreciation from the like minded people of the world but would never earn him paradise which he promised his crazy followers will be given by God if they followed his commands of destruction. And he did all of that upon the instructions of his HUMAN masters, imagine that.
May God save the world & the good souls from the terror of dajjal / the anti christ (people like OBL, love for money, the materialism, etc.).
SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 1 OUT OF 3 - 06.32 mins
"Some people rescue animals, I rescue people". Because in such a modern city like dhuuuuubhaiiii, 'people' (expatriates) live a life worse than animals. If you're looking for better opportunities in life, go anywhere in the world and retain your self respect and maintain your dignity. In UAE, as an expat, you will lose that only and there is no replacement for those two things. Majority of immigrants who go there do not realise this but unconciously or conciously accept to living at a 3rd grade citizen status. People, dont run after money, please! Respect yourselves!
SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 2 OUT OF 3 - 07.02 mins
"Shamsa (Sharla's daughter) wants to give birth in America" Why? What does the UAE lack? Oh yeah, basic human rights!
SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 1 OUT OF 3 - 09.00 mins
"The meaning of being a muslim is that you are a human right activist. The minute you say Ashhadu an la ilaha ill allah, you become a human rights activist." Food for thought? Makes you wonder... is UAE a muslim country? Come to think of it, is there ANY muslim country in the world? Im sure there are many human rights activists in many countries around the world. Does anyone have an idea what country has the largest number of activists? Is that America by any chance? If yes, as per Sharla's definition of a 'muslim' America has the most number of muslims (not by birth but by action).
Reminds me of this friend who told me how she requested too many different women jailors to give her a prayer mat because she wanted to pray but all they had for her was, "YALLAH YALLAH, GO GO!". In search of a prayer mat, she had to somehow sneak into the reception area early in the morning when their door was opened for breakfast. At the reception she saw a prayer mat and a fat 'muslim' jailor sleeping right next to it on a chair. She wanted to wake her up (as per her usual politeness) to ask if she could take that prayer mat but then recalled she was in a 'muslim jail', so she quickly picked the mat (which was taken away from her by another 'muslim' jailer) without waking her up and rushed back to to her cell where another african christian girl hugged and congratulated her on that achievement. She fondly talks about this african christian girl. She even told her parents, if she had stayed there for another few days, she would have probably converted to christianity. Her parents had nothing to say on that because they understand and feel every single moment of mental torture and depression she sufferred and they wish to meet and thank those christian girls in jail who gave their daughter moral support in jail. Because she would have lost her mind if she had to deal all by her own with those muslim jailers.
SHARLA MUSABIH - PART 3 OUT OF 3 - 09.40 mins
"Sharla is still waiting for her licence." Since like... 2002?
reading this made me cry.. i am thinking about the lady who has been through all this pain..
dats horrible..
Hello redidentity,
Thanks for reading.
Please pray for her. She is still going through counselling to get on normally with her life. While her parents are still struggling to atleast obtain permission from UAE authorities to legally file & persue her case & prove her innocence & get the life ban imposed on her to enter any GCC countries lifted. But they have not been successful still.
She has been termed as a criminal by the UAE government for all the GCC countries. Her parents cannot marry her off to any of the proposals she is getting from guys settled abroad as the immigration of any country would require her to furnish a ‘clearance certificate’ from the UAE government for spending 23 years of her life there. But her parents are unable to get that clearance certificate from the UAE government either without any ‘waasta’. Because she was illegally imprisoned there. Recently her parents have discovered that some kind of criminal case was filed against her on the basis of which she was sent to jail.
With this girl in mind, I always think of dr. Afia who, despite all the honor given to her by the 'kafir' state of america, decided to wage jihad against them but she was still given a chance to have a trial in the US courts. But this Pakistani muslim girl who was loyal to UAE her entire life, considered it her 1st home & did not migrate to Canada & other countries like her other friends is even denied the right to have a trial in this 'muslim' state supposedly a 'friend' of Pakistan. And all this considering that she did not commit any crime to suffer all that she has.
It’s about time the Pakistanis fix their messed up meaning of ‘kufr’ & jihad. Because Pakistanis have suffered too much due to their jahalat & simplicity.