Just to make it clear when you are in the ME you are in NO POSITION whatsoever to stop anything, the police force and security staff are extremely forceful and all officers are armed, so the women ordered off the plane would have had no choice but to comply.
The issue of how staff are treated in the ME has become a massive problem in the last ten years. Housekeepers, cleaners anyone in service are at the mercy of their employers. All employees from overseas have their passports confiscated on arrival, they sign contracts that are binding with no exit clause for years at a time. Many are held against their will - and the level of sexual assault, rape and injury - and even death is never measured because their is no protection whatsoever.
No police officer anywhere is going to care what a maid is going through. It is worth considering that the rape of staff happens regularly and is largely ignored in the ME. So although I am very sad for the innocent baby caught up in this, his mother is far more at risk - and no one can be surprised that many, including the mother of this baby are resorting to this kind of desperate action.
This is happening in every single ME country.
I can not stress enough how little anyone cares, and yet British and western tourists still fly out there putting their own values casually to one side, and use five star hotels where human rights are abused, and women are effectively trapped there under 'contracts' with no means of escape and are raped, we are effectively propping up this barbaric trade in human life and no one batted an eyelid before the Australian women were frogmarched off the plane.
I hope this incident shines the most almighty bright light on the ME and shows the ugly underbelly of what is happening there. It is long overdue.