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==== Saudi Arabia ==== {{See also|Xenophobia in Saudi Arabia|Antisemitism in Saudi Arabia|Human rights in Saudi Arabia|}}[[Racism in Saudi Arabia]] is practiced against labor workers who are foreigners, mostly from [[Developing country|developing countries]]. Asian maids who work in the country have been victims of racism and other forms of discrimination,<ref>{{cite book |first1=James |last1=Donald |author2=Ali Rattansi |title=Race, Culture and Difference |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NZonSikZPcC&pg=PA27 |year=1992 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-8039-8580-3 |page=27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11601 |title=Asian maids in Gulf face maltreatment |publisher=Middle East Online |date=10 October 2004 |access-date=31 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617123440/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11601 |archive-date=17 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Rabiya |last=Parekh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2006/04/south_asian_workers_in_saudi.html |title=World Service β World Have Your Say: South Asian workers in Saudi |publisher=BBC |date=4 April 2006 |access-date=22 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.0.2720941512 |title=Saudi Arabia: Asian immigrant forced to clean mosques for 'skipping prayers' β Adnkronos Religion |publisher=Adnkronos.com |date=7 April 2003 |access-date=22 April 2011}}</ref> foreign workers have been raped, exploited, under- or unpaid, physically abused,<ref name="the guardian1">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/13/saudi-arabia-treatment-foreign-workers |date=13 January 2013 |title=Saudi Arabia's treatment of foreign workers under fire after beheading of Sri Lankan maid |last=Chamberlain |first=Gethin |work=The Guardian |access-date=14 January 2013}}</ref> overworked and locked in their places of employment. The international organisation [[Human Rights Watch]] (HRW) describes these conditions as "near-[[Islamic views on slavery|slavery]]" and attributes them to "deeply rooted gender, religious, and racial discrimination".<ref name="humanrightswatch1">{{cite web |publisher=Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2004/07/13/bad-dreams/exploitation-and-abuse-migrant-workers-saudi-arabia |title='Bad Dreams:' Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia |date=15 July 2004 |access-date=11 May 2022}}</ref> In many cases the workers are unwilling to report their employers for fear of losing their jobs or further abuse.<ref name="humanrightswatch1" /> There were several cases of [[antisemitism in Saudi Arabia]] and it is common within the country's religious circles. The [[Media of Saudi Arabia|Saudi Arabian media]] often attacks Jews in books, in news articles, in its Mosques and with what some describe as [[antisemitic]] satire. Saudi Arabian government officials and state religious leaders often promote the idea that [[Antisemitic conspiracy theories|Jews are conspiring]] to take over the entire world; as proof of their claims they publish and frequently cite ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' as factual.<ref name=CMIP-KSA2001>[http://www.edume.org/reports/10/38.htm CMIP report: The Jews in World History according to the Saudi textbooks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928005805/http://www.edume.org/reports/10/38.htm |date=28 September 2007 }}. ''The Danger of World Jewry'', by Abdullah al-Tall, pp. 140β141 (Arabic). ''Hadith and Islamic Culture'', Grade 10, (2001) pp. 103β104.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/pdfdocs/KSAtextbooks06.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823125127/http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/pdfdocs/KSAtextbooks06.pdf |archive-date=23 August 2006 |title=Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance | publisher=Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House | year=2006}}</ref>
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