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Originally Posted by pelathais

"Heathens" are prohibited from entering most of these areas, particularly around Mecca (The author didn't mention visits to the Tomb of Mohammed in Medina).

The "poor saps" who do the clean up are probably highly paid Saudi contractors. The minions doing the stoop labor may be from the pool of foreign labor that outnumbers the Saudi population. In some cases these folks are treated and handled like slaves, but since they are Muslim "slaves" they are permitted to clean the toilets at the Mecca Masjid.

To be fair, the Saudis are hardly the only ones to be guilty of this. Still, with the repression of a free press and massive restrictions against "foreigners" snooping around, the abuses here go largely unnoticed and are grossly under reported.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/04/2...igrant-workers