Kuwait influencer faces backlash after racist comments

Sondos Al Qattan faces a huge backlash after her dehumanizing comments on a political matter

Qattab first gained fame for her Instagram beauty tutorials, she insisted that keeping her employees' passports was not "an insult to the employees and does not concern humanity or human right because I did not deprive her of her salary or beat her." She added that "the servants live in the same house as the employers, they eat the same food, sleep, rest, and go out shopping. This is a natural right, he's not like a waiter who works fixed hours so we give him a weekly leave." 

Facing the huge backlash, she removed the controversial video and previous tweets and privatized her twitter account.

Many brands have cut ties with her and removed posts sponsoring her.

on May 11th, Kuwait imposed a complete band of Filipino migrant workers in the Kuwait cities, but after a long diplomatic row, that changed when the Philipino presidant imposed a partial band on workers in the gulf country.

The ban was encouraged after the murder of an innocent female Filipino domestic worker where her body was found stuffed in a freezer. The ban includes the right for Filipino workers to keep their passports with them, and for a six days work per week. there are currently 250,000 Filipino domestic workers in Kuwait.