Is Daesh recruiting from our overseas workers? The headline read: “Kuwait arrests Filipino woman linked to Daesh attack plot.” It was a story attributed to the Associated Press. This was certainly extraordinary given the usual profile of our Filipino domestic workers, many of whom grew up in places where even texting was considered a luxury. In October 2015, the Saudi government arrested a Filipino domestic worker because of alleged links to a Syrian bomb-maker. Surprisingly, it appears that the Filipino woman entered Kuwait last June as a domestic worker.

Source: Manila Times August 07, 2016 14:15 UTC