Torture
of Ethiopian Maids in the Islamic World-Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla
I
would like to highlight the vulnerability of African maids in general and
Ethiopian maids[i] in
particular[ii] and
their torture[iii] stories; rape[iv],
killing[v],
violence[vi],
acid attacks, racist[vii], 22 hours of work, cheating salaries, hell[viii], and physical and psychological torture of them in the hands
of Muslims in the Middle East[ix] and
North Africa.
I
met hundreds of Ethiopian maids in the Tigray and Amhara regions, irrespective
of their ethnic communities, between 2016 and 2021. They have the same stories
of brutal torture[x] by
their Muslim female masters in the Arab world.
My
Ethiopian maid's personal experiences at the hands of Muslim women and their
children and husband are my inspiration to write this paper.
Generally,
the world makes us believe that only Muslim men are brutal, so Muslim women and
female children are victims of Muslim men's brutality, but the stories of
African maids in general and Ethiopian maids in particular, in particular, would
change your opinion about burqa-wearing Muslim girls and women and their
unbearable cruelties against African Christian maids in the Muslim world[xi].
I
do know the personal stories of Indian maids in the Arab world, but those
Indian maids are Muslims. Hence, violence against them is minimized based on
their skin color and religion.
Indian
Muslim maids face minimum violence from Arab women, whereas African Christian
maids are vulnerable to the highest brutality of Muslim women in the MENA
region.
The
Indian Muslim maids have never revealed their human status at the hands of
their Arab masters, so I assume that they have never faced any religious or
racial violence since they compromised with Muslim men in terms of fulfilling
sexual desires. So there is no question of sexual assault or killing or raping
or brutality against them since they had compromised with their masters.
They
do not even know what self-respect, dignity, or human status mean. If a human
being can’t understand what humiliation means, she or he can’t claim human
status or self-respect since they do not feel their degraded status in any
society. The claims for the self-respect of dignity or humiliation can be made
when they feel they have been humiliated or tortured or brutally oppressed or
insulted or excluded or attacked or raped or killed ontologically.
On
the contrary, African or Ethiopian maids are well-aware of their human status,
rights, self-respect, dignity, humiliation or exclusion, brutal torture,
violence, rape, and gang violence in Muslim households.
One
of the Tigray Orthodox Christian maids in the Arab world told me that every
Muslim calls them "Negro" "Dirty Face"
"Prostitute" "Criminal" "Poor" "Smell"
"Ugly" "Beggar" "Monkey" "Black"
"Pig" "Unclean" "Impure" "low life".
She,
like any Ethiopian, informed me that these are their names throughout their
servility. They are aware of what they are losing at the hands of Muslims. They
knew that they had lost human status. They knew that they were raped, tortured,
humiliated, degraded, excluded, brutally tortured, and killed. Many told me
that most Ethiopian maids are killed by their Muslim masters for asking for
their salaries.
They
also told me that Muslim children, women, elderly people, and burqa-wearing
women enjoy and laugh when they see them physically torturing African maids in
front of their eyes. They told me that every Muslim enjoys violence against
African maids. Some of them showed me wounds on their bodies. They are
ontologically hurt, wounded, and dead.
She
told me that this is deep-rooted phenomenon of every Muslim against her African
Christian maids in the Muslim world. She claimed that after working in Arabic,
she had forgotten her real name. She, like any other African or Ethiopian maid,
was physically and mentally tortured by her Muslim women and men.
Every
Ethiopian maid told me the same stories of brutal torture by Muslims. How many
crimes against humanity are taking place against African maids in Muslim
households? How many international laws are challenged, brutally raped,
violated, and broken by Muslim masters against African maids? World is silent
since they are an African community. How much venom do they unleash on African
maids? I have never come across any Muslim human rights activist, scholar, or
writer speaking the truth. They are all paper tigers, as per the words of Ethiopian
maids.
The
issue here is that Ethiopian Christian maids refuse to sleep with their Muslim
masters, so rape occurs with the brutal force of violence from their Muslim
women. I contacted and interviewed hundreds of Ethiopian Christian maids to
learn about their lived experiences in the Islamic world.
They
told me that sexual relationships between fathers and daughters[xii], [xiii],[xiv]and brothers and sisters, are well-established in every
Muslim family. On Al Jazeera, we have many documentary films about fathers
raping their daughters, impregnating them, and getting children from their
daughters in the Islamic world. We have massive evidence of sexual
relationships between Muslim fathers and their daughters, even in India.
Most
Muslim fathers married their virgin daughters since Allah asked them to take
their daughters' virginity. So I strongly believed in the personal experience
of Ethiopian Christian maids since we have documentary evidence from various
mainstream media, such as Al Jazeera. As you all know, Al Jazeera strongly
supports the Islamic ideology or way of life of its Muslims.
According
to Tigray, Amhara, and Oromia maids in the Islamic world, Muslim women force
them to sleep with their fathers, grandfathers, and husbands; otherwise, their
sons and brothers would force them to sleep with them. Most Ethiopian Christian
maids refuse to sleep with their Muslim masters since their religious faith and
beliefs are quite opposite. There is a problem when they refuse to sleep with
their Muslim masters. Muslim women start beating them, banning them from eating
two meals; giving them 23 hours of physical work; cleaning huge houses; washing
100 people’s clothes by hand; preparing food; gardening; etc., making them
suffer physically and mentally. They don’t even sleep an hour. When tired Ethiopian
maids sleep, rape will take place forcefully by old-aged Muslim men or
young-aged Muslim men inside their tiny rooms.
Most
Ethiopian Christian maids told me that as long as they resist their lustful
eyes, Muslim women force them to sleep in front of their unclean, smelly
toilets, making maids sick or leading to serious health problems. They told me
that most of the time they get pregnant without knowing who their father is
since every male in the house rapes them. When they want to contact the Ethiopian
Embassy in the Muslim world to inform them of the crimes that are committed by
Muslim men and women upon them, then they make false complaints of stealing or
religious abuse or blasphemy, or false cases to put them in jail.
Most
of the time, Muslim women don’t pay salaries to their maids but make false
police complaints against poor and innocent or most marginalized African maids
to escape their meager salaries. Arab or Muslim states do protect their fellow
Muslims by punishing African maids for their false cases[xv].
According
to Ethiopian maids, they are facing crimes against humanity even from so-called
human rights Muslims in the Arab world. They told me that one of the Muslim human
rights lawyers used to abuse them sexually by threatening them that he would
put them in an Arab jail under a stealing complaint. They told me that I should
not go to any Muslim country which is known for crimes against humanity. Muslim
women give only one meal a day, which is too little food for working 22 to 23
hours per day. They said even getting that little food depends on the mood of
their Muslim women. They told me their monthly salaries are less than $75, and
most of the time they don’t get it since their masters cheat them after working
two or four years[xvi].
We
know about the crimes of MENA against humanity, but the amazing part is that at
least 100 million MENA or Arab people are citizens of the developed world who
commit all these crimes against humanity. They are even human rights
campaigners, employees of UNO, teachers of human rights, professors of western
universities, or hold high political positions in the western world.
Politically correct ideologies started praising Burqua women by saying that
Burqua is beautiful. Burqua women are so cruel and criminal against African
maids in their households, and only African or Ethiopian maids know the cruel
face of Muslim women and men.
How
many international human rights violations are violated by Arab men and women
or Muslim women and men against African maids? Their way of life or ideology
itself is a crime against humanity. Treating a fellow human being with
sub-human status is a crime against the universal declaration of human rights,
but the ground reality is that every developed citizen loves the burqa, or
jihad, which is dehumanizing an African woman.
I
was shocked when local Europeans started asking me if I was an Afghan, Syrian, or
Arab. I asked them why they were asking me about Afghanistan, Syria, or MENA.
They told me that they wanted to help if I was from Afghanistan, Syria, or
MENA.
As
I knew about how Indian expatriates sexually exploited local Ethiopian women
and girls, impregnating them and leaving them to their fate, I knew the cruel
face of the MENA region. Maids are humans. Africans are humans. Black Asians
are humans.
I
have been quoted by many scholars[xvii], researchers[xviii],[xix], [xx],[xxi]and media[xxii], [xxiii],[xxiv],[xxv],[xxvi],[xxvii]across the globe for my academic, professional, and
extracurricular activities, but I and my family have become prey to these Arab
Muslims and their loving local European folk in my current European country
because of my dark-skinned color. They don’t treat humans as humans[xxviii] if you are a dark-skinned human being or African.
I am considered one of the top influencers in the transgender
campaign (https://app.brandmentions.com/s/p/330408/transgender).
My
brown-skinned Ethiopian wife, "Princess" Selamawit Hailu Bezabih, and
my only baby boy, "Prince" Saviour, have become victims of the raw
racism of airlifted Muslims and Europeans. No matter whether we are
intellectuals or scholars or activists or writers or readers, if we are
dark-skinned or African, we are worthless in the eyes of Muslims and Europeans,
or the white world.
According
to the Holy Bible, love is the most marginalized. Jesus always sides with the
oppressed rather than the oppressor. Jesus is always in the company of the
subaltern, not in the company of hegemony. The loving and caring philosophy of
Black Jesus says that we should always stand with the most marginalized
sections, but his followers are always in the company of their fellow racists
and religious extremists.
Finally,
people like me or Africans like Ethiopian maids are sand-witched by unbearable
racism and religious extremism.
Dedicated
to African maids who are victims of Muslims------- Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla
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