Saudi Arabia is (not) a Class Society

Yesterday I read an interesting article in the newspaper. One of the princes at a talk he gave at one of the universities told the audience that Saudi Arabia is not a class society. His argument was that since all people are equal according the the Qur'an and that Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country, that it is not a class society. The reason I found this interesting is because Saudi Arabia is a class society to the extreme:

Job postings list the nationality that are allowed to apply for different positions. Higher ranking positions are available only to Saudi, European and North American applicants. Lower ranking positions are divided between far east, asian, subsaharan, north african etc applicants.

I am not exaggerating when I say that many domestic workers here are indentured servants. Along with their sponsorship to come to Saudi Arabia they are expected to pay their sponsors monthly. Others get here and their sponsors refuse to pay them making it impossible for the individual to return home without "fleeing" from their sponsor in search of another (illegal) employment in order to raise the funds to go home.

In other words, in Saudi Arabia there is class distinction between:

the powerful and the powerless

the rich and the poor

the culture of origin

and these distinctions are openly maintained by design.

I was interested in the Prince's inability to say that Saudi Arabia IS a class society and should not be, we should do all we can as Muslims in an Islamic state to eradicate class from our society as is taught in the Qur'an.