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rMs_000 said
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Olive said
Hmmmm Looks like I might ...Hmmmm Looks like I might need to make it smaller, here:

mjamille28 said
can't see the whole of the ...can't see the whole of the cartoon, but doesn't look funny at all..

rMs_000 said
Copy paste in paint and ...Copy paste in paint and read!
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mjamille28 said
Olive thanks for reposting.. ...Olive thanks for reposting..

Victory_278692 said
it is more scarry for working parents and ....... ...sarcastic then funny.....
Olive said
There's so much wrong about ...There's so much wrong about this cartoon I'm not sure what the editor was thinking when he allowed it to be printed.
DaRuDe said
Lets wait for Khalid ...and his views on this.
ikei said
if you have tension ? no ...if you have tension ? no problem use it......lol
(NOTE:- DON'T TRY)
sandeepkadian said
Looks like the editor was ...Looks like the editor was angry with his maid today.. Not funny at all.
Olive said
DaRude, he'll say the ...DaRude, he'll say the housemaid isn't wearing hijab, therefore she's capable of anything because she's evil.
genesis said
Mohammed cartoons are never ...Mohammed cartoons are never meant to be funny. Most of his work is dark altough sarcastic. I think it's badly translated, the intention is how cruel some sponsors treat their maids
Olive said
Then why is it justifying ...Then why is it justifying the way the maids are treated? It seems like he's trying to portray the maids as evil.
rMs_000 said
It can be on either way ...It can be on either way olive. Readers can chose which ever way they want!
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Olive said
I really don't see how it ...I really don't see how it can be either way. Maid get's yelled at = poisoned child???? Little bit of overreaction by the maid I'd say.
rMs_000 said
It describes about the ...It describes about the cruelty of some sponsors.. and devilish reaction of house maids. Editor doesn't show any partiality to both of them i say. So its neutral..
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Olive said
No Partiality??? Are we ...No Partiality??? Are we looking at the same cartoon?? This cartoon is trivializing the abuse of housemaids by trying to justify it! A yell is equal to poison???? There is nothing neutral about this cartoon.
tess_916 said
No humor at all. ...It's never funny to pick on a child out of revenge.
genesis said
olive ...It's badly translated. The arabic term used meant verbally humiliated
Not a yell.
Amoud said
I don't like this at ...I don't like this at all.....
Even the bad translation doesn't cover what bad taste this is in.
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Olive said
Regardless genesis, there is ...Regardless genesis, there is a big difference between verbally humiliating and poisoning a child in retaliation. This cartoon is justifying mis-treatment of maids and turning them into villains.
britexpat said
The message is quite ...The message is quite simple..
Abuse the maid and you risk her abusing the child
Olive said
Funny brit, I thought the ...Funny brit, I thought the problem here was sponsors putting the maids in hospital, not the maids putting the children. If he wanted to represent this he could have done it many other ways besides villainizing the maid.
PrinceOfDoha said
agreed with brit ...freinds atleast read whats written beside that ... its clear and simple ...
Jo Naras said
Whose the editor? How much ...Whose the editor? How much he get paid to curse the maids??
“The fool speaks, the wise man listens”
genesis said
olive ...It's not always the case. There are many reported maids abusing
Children cases, some are even caught on camera.
In my opinion, most of those cases are because how badly they
Were treated by their sponsors.
Ines_pt said
The message is clear and ...The message is clear and simple as brit says, yet it is a black joke.
Olive said
As I see in the author is ...As I see in the author is blaming the maids for their treatment.
tess_916 said
Olive is right. Nothing ...Olive is right. Nothing justifies abuse of housemaids on helpless kids, even out of revenge. The editors should have thought of something else to address the problems of domestic helpers, not like this.
britexpat said
Olive.. ...the caption clearly says "your mum shouted at me today, just because I broke a plate" ..
Therefore the maid is feeling that she was unjustly abused by her employer.
Perhaps the translation from Arabic to English does not work. I do agree that it may have been better worded..
Olive said
There's a very big ...There's a very big difference between shouting and poisoning a baby. If they were really addressing the issue rather then trying to justify it, the maid would have a black eye and not look like a villainous beast.
Arien said
Tha message is to the ...Tha message is to the sponsors : Better treat them well or the kid will be the one suffering. Howz that???
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Yaseen905 said
Oh my God! I CANNOT believe ...Oh my God! I CANNOT believe that was printed. How on earth could they allow something like that??? Which ever angle they were going for, it is completely wrong of them to present the issue like this. For the maid. For the child. For the parents.
Disgusting...
The Observer said
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svelte_saggi said
yay!QL~the international ...yay!QL~the international voice of Qatar! \m/
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rMs_000 said
"rMs_000 responded ..."rMs_000 responded diplomatically:
It describes about the cruelty of some sponsors.. and devilish reaction of house maids. Editor doesn’t show any partiality to both of them i say. So its neutral..
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YAYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol..
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bstmomeva01 said
I have heard stories such as ...I have heard stories such as maids burning babies alive by placing them in ovens and and i have heard from a friend who's student's hands were burned when her maid/nanny placed them on the burning stove..Those maids did end up in jail, but not without a "cause"...yes so msg is simple, u abuse ur maids and ur risking ur children's lives.
shreeya said
And why the maid shown ...And why the maid shown wearing a red dot on her forehead? Is he singling out certain nationality?
The fact is the maids come from many other nationalities too.
Everything's gonna be alright!!!
shreeya said
Ohhh, forget it, thats an ...Ohhh, forget it, thats an old cartoon.
Everything's gonna be alright!!!
FriedUnicorn said
Bad taste. Some media guys are psychos... ...Source:
- A study Conducted by FriedUnicorn - Vol I (September,1999)
tooba24 said
Bad humour ...This is something we can call "Bad Humour" Its portrayed in a bad way....the message is not clear..
by the way most house maids are the victim not the culprit and what I see everyday is that the Landlords treat them in a bad way.