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The following video shows a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia being verbally and physically abused by a Saudi for criticizing Saudi Arabia.
To view this video on YouTube.com, click here.
The Bengali migrant worker in the video above seems to have said something mildly critical of the government in Saudi Arabia. His punishment? He is forced to praise Saudi citizens as the best in the world, plead poverty and being in Saudi Arabia to feed his poor parents, and then kiss the hands and feet of his Saudi interrogator.
All the while, the Saudi says the following:
“You dog!”
“You animal!”
“Kiss my hands!”
“Even the United States fears Saudi Arabia.”
“The whole world fears Saudi Arabia.”
“What are you? An animal.”
This incident is extreme, but it reflects a strand of ethnic superiority inside Saudi Arabia and an inability to accept criticism of the country and its ways. Only last month, the Saudi ambassador to Egypt left Cairo in a huff after protests and alleged verbal insults against the Saudi monarch by an Egyptian human rights lawyer. Only when Egypt’s notables went to Riyadh and apologized to the Saudi king did the ambassador return. Today, there is more security outside the Saudi embassy in Egypt than most others.
Saudi Arabia is an important ally for the United States, but a society that cannot tolerate criticism cannot become the pluralist and modern nation that the government promises us when we visit. Reform of the sort mentioned by Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz is urgent.
In the meantime, the culprit behind this heinous crime should be tracked down and brought to justice as an illustration that the Kingdom will not tolerate such conduct. The expatriate worker should be compensated, and his grievances addressed. Will Saudi Arabia do so? The answer to that question tells you whether the Kingdom is serious about reform or not.
I dont see what is the big deal.Many such foreigners ( am one myself) should thank Saudi Arabia for not starving to death, yet they criticize the Saudi government for many things.
They have no right to do so, and i think our Saudi brother was very lenient in what he did . May God protect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from jealous people everywhere
Are you out of your mind? That man was slapped just for expressing his opinions. That’s NOT being lenient. It doesn’t matter if the Saudi government is feeding him, if he dislikes it, he should be able to criticize it. This is a complete shame. I hope the Saudi government suffers for these acts.
Yeah, pretty sure nobody is jealous of Saudi Arabia.
AND rereading over the article, if such an incident shows the ‘ethnic superiority inside Saudi Arabia’ Anwar’s comment shows the result of such attitudes and behavior. His sense of self worth has been diminished and he’s suffering from ethnic inferiority complex. He’s not the only one; he represents a small minority of expatriate workers from south Asia who find behavior such as the one in the video acceptable and ‘lenient.’
Anwar,
I think it’s quite obvious you’ve lived in KSA to long. To actually say the idiot Saudi national in the video was lenient, just goes to show how little respect you have for another human beings self respect.
Expats from southeast Asia in particular, are treated with no respect in Saudi. This is a Fact! I’ve seen many videos like this humiliating workers in Saudi.
The fact remains that Saudi would collapse if not for the Asian workers. Saudis would sit in a mess of their own filth.
People like the man in this video are a product of a society that has been built on a sense of entitlement without ever earning anything with hard work. When a government hand feeds its people for generations this is the result you get. It’s similar even around the GCC. What have us GCC nationals given to society? Money? that’s it because that requires nothing but signing a check. What contributions in science, in peace, in world aid has Saudi done. Money is the answer to everything in the GCC, and it is what defines the Saudi’s. Not what you are, but who you are, what tribe your from, and what religion you follow. This attitude is ingrained in this culture. I have met many educated Saudi’s who understand the meaning of hard work and RESPECT! They will be the first to tell you the real state of Saudi.
We all wonder why the world hates us GCC nationals, it’s easy to see we’ve become little brats that want to be given everything by our government without have to work for it. I guess when you become the one if the richest country b/c your lucky to be blessed with all the petrol in the world that’s what happens. It’s not industry, service, or trade that made these governments who they are. It’s Luck!
What educational hubs have been built? How are these governments bettering their people?
Answer is they don’t want to. They want to keep ppl relying on government handouts to control them. The fear is if you educate your people they will realize how weak and greedy their monarchy is, and that is too dangerous for the Al Saud’s.
The saddest part about Saudi is that it houses the holiest places in Islam.
What a waste that the home of God where countless prophets from Abraham to Muhammed have walked and prayed to their God. Is inside the most corrupt, greedy, sexist, racist culture that is a contradiction to the Quran and Islam.
I wonder if that saudi in the video would be singing the same tune if he was in Lahore!
Pathetic
Obviously the bengali guy said that saudi government and citizens are animal then the saudi guy got furious, i believe anyone who loves his country will do the same unless u r like the bengali where u bite the hand that feeds you
A person should be allowed to openly say his opinion.
No man has the right to lay hands on another. Nation’s that tolerate this behavior are a joke and will not last in this modern era.
The Bengali should have thrown him out of his car and reported the assault.
“kuwaiti” seems to imply that the hand that “feeds the bengali” does so for nothing in return. Fine. Kick out the Bengalis from your countries. I’d like to see you sweep your own streets.
The point that this a gross and degrading act by an individual. I am sure in a civilized society does one human being treat another like this?
I hope that if there is any justice in this world the vile person hitting the other suffers.
@Anwar…..if that was your friend/father/uncle being hit and ridiculed, I wonder how you would have sympathized with your Arab “brother” .