Majid is very commonly a first name. I know a Muslim business contact with that very same first name. Here's a couple of examples of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majid_Khan
There is nothing at all made up about the story. It is only too typical of hundreds of thousands of such stories.
--- In Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com, Ron Gates <ronnmorrison@...> wrote:
>
> This is a made up story, I have a friend who is a Naval attache to Saudi, just
> emailed him, no such officer and apparently Majid is a surname
>
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> From: Kisan <mailbhejna@...>
> To: wide minds <wideminds@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 February, 2011 12:41:42
> Subject: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Sexual Prey in the Saudi jungle
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> http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=17008
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> Sexual Prey in the Saudi jungle
>
> Walden Bello
> Philippine Daily Inquirer
> Publication Date : 25-01-2011
>
>
>
> He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base
> of Jubail in the Persian Gulf. She was a single mom from Mindanao (in southern
> Philippines) who saw, like so many others, employment in Saudi Arabia as a route
> out of poverty. When he picked her up at the Dammam International Airport in
> June, little did she know she was entering, not a brighter chapter of her life
> but a chamber of horrors from which she would be liberated only after six long
> months.
> The tale of woe recounted by Lorena (not her real name) was one of several
> stories of rape and sexual abuse that were shared by domestic workers with
> members of a fact-finding team of the Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs
> (COWA) of the Philippine House of Representatives. The high incidence of rape
> and sexual abuse visited on the women we met in Philippine government-run
> shelters for runaway or rescued domestic workers in Jeddah, Riyadh, and Al
> Khobar most likely reflects a broader trend among Filipina domestics. “Rape is
> common,†said Fatimah (also an alias) who had been gang-raped in April 2009 by
> six Saudi teenagers. “The only difference is we escaped to tell our story while
> they’re still imprisoned in their households.â€
> Rape: the ever-present spectre
> The working conditions of many domestics, which include 18- to 22-hour days and
> violent beatings, cannot be described except as virtual slavery. Slavery was
> abolished by royal decree in 1962, but customs are hard to overcome. Domestic
> workers continue to be treated as slaves in royal and aristocratic households,
> and this behaviour is reproduced by those lower in the social hierarchy.
> Apparently among the items of the “job description†of a domestic slave in Saudi
> is being forced to minister to the sexual needs of the master of the household.
> This is the relationship that so many other women unwittingly step into when
> they are placed in Saudi homes by their recruitment agencies.
> Rape does not, however, take place only in the household. With strict
> segregation of young Saudi men from young Saudi women, Filipino domestic
> workers, who usually go about with their face and head uncovered, stand a good
> chance of becoming sexual prey if they make the mistake of being seen in public
> alone - though the company of a friend did not prevent Fatimah from being
> snatched by her teenage captors. And the threat comes not only from marauding
> Saudi youth but also from foreign migrant workers, single and married, who are
> deprived by the rigid sexual segregation imposed by the ever-present Religious
> Police from normal social intercourse with women during their time in Saudi.
> Lorena’s tale
> Lorena is in her mid-twenties, lithe, and pretty - qualities that marked her as
> prime sexual prey in the Saudi jungle. And indeed, her ordeal began when they
> arrived at her employer’s residence from the airport. “He forced a kiss on me,â€
> she recalled. Fear seized her and she pushed him away.
> He was not deterred. “One week after I arrived,†she recounted, “he raped me for
> the first time. He did it while his wife was away. He did it after he commanded
> me to massage him and I refused, saying that was not what I was hired for. Then
> in July he raped me two more times. I just had to bear it (“Tiniis ko na langâ€)
> because I was so scared to run away. I didn’t know anyone.â€
> While waiting for her employer and his wife in a shopping mall one day, Lorena
> came across some Filipino nurses, whom she begged for help. Upon hearing her
> story, they gave her a SIM card and pitched in to buy her a load.
> But the domestic torture continued. She would be slapped for speaking Arabic
> since her employer’s wife said she was hired to speak English. She was given
> just one piece of bread to eat at mealtime and she had to supplement this with
> scraps from the family’s plates. She was loaned to the wife’s mother’s household
> to clean the place, and her reward for this was her being raped by the wife’s
> brother; kinship apparently confers the right to rape the servants of relatives.
> Also during that month, October, she was rapedâ€"for the fourth timeâ€"by her
> employer.
> She not only had to contend with sexual aggression but with sheer cruelty. Once,
> while cleaning, she fell and cut herself. With blood gushing from the wound, she
> pleaded with the employer’s wife to bring her to the hospital. She refused, and
> when Lorena asked her to allow her to call her mother in the Philippines, she
> again said no, telling her this was too expensive. The employer arrived at that
> point, but instead of bringing her to the hospital, he said, “You might as well
> die.†Lorena had to stanch the wound with her own clothes and treat herself with
> pills she had brought with her from the Philippines.
> Rape amidst rescue
> Wildly desperate by now, Lorena finally managed to get in touch with personnel
> of the Philippine Overseas Labour Office (POLO) in Al Khobar. Arrangements were
> made to rescue her on December 30. That morning, the rescue team from POLO and
> the local police arrived at the residence. Lorena flagged them frantically from
> a second story window and told them she wanted to jump, but the team advised her
> not to because she could break her leg. That was a costly decision, since the
> employer raped her again - for the fifth time - even with the police right
> outside the residence. When she dragged herself to her employer’s wife and
> begged her to keep her husband away from her, she beat her instead, calling her
> a liar. “I was screaming and screaming, and the police could hear me, but they
> did not do anything.â€
> When the employer realised that he was about to be arrested, he begged Lorena
> not to tell the police anything because he would lose his job and offered to pay
> for her ticket home. “I said I would not tell on him and say that he was a good
> man, just so that he would just let me go (‘para lang makatakas ako’),†Lorena
> said. When she was finally rescued moments later, Lorena recounted her ordeal to
> the POLO team and police, and the employer was arrested.
> Released from captivity, Lorena was determined to obtain justice. However,
> arduous bureaucratic procedures delayed a medical examination to obtain traces
> of semen right after her rescue. When it was finally conducted, she was given an
> emergency contraceptive pill - an indication, said the POLO officer who led the
> rescue, that seminal traces had been found in and on her. Also, the examination
> revealed contusions all over her body and bite marks on her lips.
> The criminal investigation is still ongoing and the employer, who has been
> identified as Lt. Commander Majid Al-Juma-in, is still in jail at the Dammam
> Police Station. Lorena is worried that the evidence might be tampered with.
> “These people are influential,†she said. “They have a lot of money. I am only a
> maid. They said they could put me in prison.†Her fear is palpable. Her greatest
> wish is to be repatriated but she knows she must stay till he is convicted and
> sentenced to death.
> Saudi society: a sexual pressure cooker
> Lorena’s story shows, according to one embassy official, that rape and cruelty
> is not confined to the lower class Saudi households. “This is an officer in the
> Saudi Navy, somebody that comes from the educated class.â€
> The reasons why rape and sexual abuse are endemic provoked an animated
> discussion among those who heard her. The strict sexual segregation, one member
> of the House team speculated, must create tremendous pent-up sexual pressure, so
> when the opportunity for sexual satisfaction appears, it explodes. Another said
> that the sexual abuse of domestics was an extension of the strict subordination
> to males and institutionalised repression of Saudi women. Whatever the causes,
> Saudi society is suffused with latent sexual violence, much more so than most
> other societies.
> Decision point for Aquino admin
> Other societies have begun to take drastic steps to protect their citizens in
> Saudi Arabia. After a much-publicised case in which an Indonesia domestic worker
> suffered internal bleeding and broken bones from a ferocious beating by her
> employer, who pressed a hot iron on her head and slashed her with scissors, two
> labour-exporting Indonesian states, West Nusa Tenggara and West Java, banned the
> recruitment of domestics for employment in Saudi Arabia last December. Earlier,
> in October, the Sri Lankan ministry of labour backtracked from an agreement
> arrived at between the Saudi National Recruitment Agency and the Sri Lankan
> labour federation, asserting that the terms of the agreement was unfavourable to
> the Sri Lankan domestics and the Sri Lankan economy. This led the Saudis to
> indefinitely freeze recruitment from Sri Lanka.
> These moves by other governments have led to greater demand for Filipino
> domestic workers. While the informal policy of the Philippine government has
> been to slow down the recruitment of domestics to Saudi, legal and illegal
> recruiters, many of them tied to Saudi interests, have been trying to step it
> up. The Aquino administration may soon reach a critical decision point on the
> issue of Saudi recruitment since the amended Act on Overseas Workers (Republic
> Act 10022) requires the department of foreign affairs to certify that a country
> is taking steps to protect labor rights if workers are to be deployed there.
> With its hideous record and its resistance to expanding coverage of its labour
> code to domestic workers, there is no way Saudi Arabia can be certified.
> Tattered lives
> For members of the recent House mission to Saudi, who were shocked to
> speechlessness, by the torrent of tales of cruelty, domestic repression, and
> rape, there is a consensus that every effort must be made to prevent Filipinas
> from going to Saudi to prevent recurrence of tragedies such as those visited on
> Lorena and Fatimah. For the many who have already been raped and degraded
> sexually, however, a move to prevent the deployment of more women to Saudi
> Arabia comes too late. Lorena may well secure the conviction of Lt. Commander
> Majid, but that will not restore her to her former self. As Fatimah put it in a
> handwritten note she passed on to the team, although her tormentors had been
> sentenced to seven years imprisonment and 2,500 lashes each, “there’s no
> equivalent amount for what they’ve done. They destroyed my life, my future.â€
> (Walden Bello of Akbayan Partylist is chairman of the Committee on Overseas
> Workers’ Affairs (COWA) of the Philippine House of Representatives. He recently
> led a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia accompanied by Reps. Carmen
> Zamora-Apsay, Emmeline Aglipay, and Crescente Paez.)
> Â ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Islamic 'Holy' book Quran teaches the permissibility of Muslim men having
> sex with their 'right hand possessions' which is maids or slaves:
>
> Quran 004.024Â Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom
> your right hands possess
>
> This problem of maid rape is an ongoing problem in Arabia due to this pernicious
> teaching of Islam.
>
> Indonesias previous president Wahid had this to say on the topic:
>
> Indonesian Observer
> March 2, 2000
>
> Wahid urges talks on Indonesian women working in Saudi Arabia
>
> JAKARTA (IO) â€" President Abdurrahman Wahid says Indonesia must hold talks
> with Saudi Arabia on the treatment of Indonesian women employed as maids in
> the oil-rich country.
>
> "We must hold a discussion so that we can resolve the existing problems and
> both sides can understand each other. Indonesia no longer believes in
> slavery," he told members of the Mobile Brigade Police in Depok, West Java,
> yesterday.
>
> He expressed concern that many Saudis may treat their Indonesian servants as
> slaves and sexually harass them.
>
> Many Indonesian women who have worked abroad come home with horror stories of
> being raped and badly treated by their foreign bosses.
>
> But according to Wahid, the Indonesian media often makes inaccurate reports
> on what goes on in Saudi Arabia.
>
> "The media’s descriptions created a public perception that our women workers
> were raped. The situation is not like that. The Saudi people still believe in
> the old Islamic teaching, which is belief in slavery. So a woman who works
> for them is considered a slave," he said.
>
> For some men in Saudi Arabia, sexual relations with a housemaid are not
> considered as rape, because they believe that such a practice is permitted by
> their beliefs, he added.
>
> ------------
>
> We can see that it Islam itself that encourages this evil behavior due to its
> inhumane teachings and legacy.
>
>
> Kisan.
>
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