OFW: Non persons with no rights

The Saudis, unable to give money to Mayor Guilliani because of insults, now insult the intelligence of NYTimes readers...

"Doing business with the citizens of a country is not the same thing as believing in that country's right to exist.
"We are doing so many things to bridge the gap between Christianity and Islam and Judaism. For example, at my hotel in Paris, George V, you are going to find the Christian Bible, the Jewish Bible and the Islamic Koran in each single room.
"That's a wonderful idea, but a luxury hotel in Paris is a long way from Saudi Arabia, where you could surely spend more money on Judeo-Christian studies.
Look. You have to understand that the population of Saudi Arabia has zero Christians.
That's the point. Why shouldn't you should spend your millions educating your own students before you educate kids at Harvard?
Obviously, it could be something we are contemplating

Earth to Saudi Arabia...there are plenty of Christians in Saudi Arabia, but they have no rights.

If they have a bible, they are arrested...and one of my relatives reports that they searched her luggage for contraband and they made her throw out her rosary when she arrived there to work as a nurse...

Ah, but one million Phillippine OFW don't count? (this is the "official number")...
Statistics and information on religious persecution HERE...

And, not mentioned by the prince, is the fact that a Muslim who converts to Christianity will probably be killed...that tends to keep down the number of Christians in a country....

The Human Rights Watch report on Saudi Arabian abuse of overseas foreign workers from many different countries is found HERE....

67% of Saudi Arabia's workers are from overseas...many, of course, are Muslims, but others are not...

There were seven million expatriates in the kingdom, about one-third of the total population, Dr. Ali al-Namlah, Saudi Arabia’s then-long-serving minister of labor and social affairs, told Human Rights Watch in January 2003


The statistics department of the ministry of economy and planning reported in 2004 that non-Saudis accounted for 67 percent of the kingdom’s labor force.11 Foreigners held 90 to 95 percent of the private sector jobs, Dr. Namlah told Human Rights Watch....

The largest expatriate communities in Saudi Arabia include one million to 1.5 million people each from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, and another 900,000 each from Egypt, Sudan, and the Philippines.