At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead

This has nothing to do with Islam. This is all about money and a few rich idiots abusing their power.

Bulk of the practices you associate with any religion, are not that of a religion but that of the local civilization at that point of time.

Your post resembles the attitude of the western masses today, which is to hold the perception created by media and politicians as a fact. Islam is followed by more than 1/3rd of the world today, no one wakes up with knives searching for slaves to kill. These people are ordinary people just like any other people in the west who go out and make a living, in the hopes of a good life for themselves and their family.

And they have their local culture which dominates bulk of their lifestyle.

Secondly you quote Winston Churchill, This is heights of hypocrisy. The man has made extreme racial remarks. For eg from : http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

>>I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

Basically he is saying, anything that what the so called self proclaimed 'stronger' or 'higher-grade' race does is right.

This is the exact same attitude these rich guys in Qatar show today. Something tells me they are both just the same. Regardless of the religion.

People like these should think about their own morals before talking about somebody else's.

I'm sure there are much worse and much better companies than what is reported regarding un/semi-skilled labor workforce vendors. The former should not be allowed to survive.

Would be a cool project if someone went undercover themselves to make a docu on the living and work conditions of these industrial sites to expose this further.

However, effective slavery of foreign workers does go on in those places, often with local or national government conspiracy. Malaysia is a prime example.

In the previous article, the family interviewed in Nepal lost one son to construction slavery in Qatar and one to the same in Malaysia.

Furthermore, Sharia law has been waved around in the western media as the height of evil (like the word Islam or the neologism Islamist), but like most religious ideologies Islamic law does historically have many good intentions behind it and there are many strong examples of excellent, safe, learned and tolerant societies that drew from this tradition (some periods of Iran I guess, definitely Yuan China after the Mongols who were great integrators and sponsors of language, philosophy and the culinary arts (包子原来是土耳其的！), Islamic Spain, etc.). Officially, Qatar 'abolished' Sharia courts in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar#Law

My theory for the correlation of shitty law and many Islamic countries is simply that education is lacking, or some unelected self-serving bigot or a cartel thereof are in effective control, extracting all the wealth for themselves. In modern times, in many of these cases the ruling parties' route to power can be clearly traced to have sprung from the west's actions at the end of colonialism, or even later. Usually England or France in those times, but later in the 20th century blame seems to shift primarily the US with its one-eyed diplomatic stance and obsession with oil money and global economic/military dominance, with economic hitmen, the undermining of the UN, numerous examples of sponsoring evil regimes or undermining democratically elected ones, so and so forth.

I'd be up for donating some money to their family. How do I do it?