I thought Dubai was more forward thinking than this. After being raped at the hotel the woman asked staff to call the cops & they even questioned her desire to do that.

I'm so fortunate to live in the good ol' US of A.

A Norwegian woman sentenced to 16 months in jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after she reported an alleged rape said Friday she decided to speak out in hopes of drawing attention to the risks of outsiders misunderstanding the Islamic-influenced legal codes in this cosmopolitan city.

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I agree with everything you have stated about those awful people. Fuck 'em. We don't owe them one goddamn thing.

(07-20-2013, 10:43 AM)SIXFOOTERsez Wrote: See? Animals

Yeah its a disgrace, its animal like behaviour, a bit like pissing on someones corpse.

(07-20-2013, 10:40 AM)Duchess Wrote: [size=medium][i]
I thought Dubai was more forward thinking than this.

Oh really?

Why?

Because I see it as being sophisticated.

There is nothing sophisticated about the United Arab Emirates.

I'm not speaking to all of the UAE only Dubai.

(07-20-2013, 11:18 AM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: a bit like pissing on someones corpse.

We can pee on anyone we want. We are The United States of America.

Woman runs into a police station in Dubai "Help, I've just been raped!"

Dubai Cop "No wonder, you are almost naked and your clothes are all ripped. You are basically asking for it."

Woman "What??"

Dubai Cop "So you had sex with a man you didn't know?"

Woman "No, it was not one man, it was 4!"

Dubai Cop "Mashalla! 4?? That's just disgusting!! Hamed, lock up this dirty harlot. Obviously she don't know how to control herself!!"

I swear this would be something for Monthy Pyton!

Dubai is a funny place. All glitter and glitz and a hooker on every street corner, but my oh my, try kissing in a shopping mall! Or even worse, getting raped!!

I must have been blinded by the glitter, glitz & scantily clad females.

(07-20-2013, 11:40 AM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: There is nothing sophisticated about the United Arab Emirates.

Do define sophisticated. I would really like to know what your version of sophisticated entails.

This happened to an Australian woman as well. She was gang raped and treated like a criminal by authorities.

The Sex and the City 2 movie is a really good insight into the double edge sword in that part of the world. Like in the beginning of the movie it is all very glitzy and glamorous and they are living the high life, then it quickly turns nasty and becomes dangerous and unsafe. It is so true and can happen there. It is a place where you can see 'bad things happen to good people'.

(07-20-2013, 12:34 PM)Mohammed Wrote: Do define sophisticated. I would really like to know what your version of sophisticated entails.

My version of sophisticated does not include building a city using virtual slave labour like they did in Dubai. Migrant workers working long hours in dangerous jobs for peanuts. Migrant workers who have their passports confiscated so they can not return home to visit their families. Migrant workers living 10 to a room without any air conditioning.

Seriously, the crap they feed you over there while you explore the world thru your Lazy Boy is quite amusing. Yes, there was indeed large mistreatment of workers, but those very workers make 4 times as much as back home and support their families, just like the Phillipino community. 10 to a room? You obviously haven't been on any oil fields.

Times have changed, evil Bosses have been punished, unlike the English of course. You off all people talking about slave labour doing dangerous jobs. Now after they build up your Empire it's quite nice to go all high and mighty in that plush, velvet little throne of yours eh?!

They don't earn 4 times more than they can earn at home they are told that they will but they don't. The only reason they don't leave when they realise this is because they can't, try leaving a country without a passport Heinrich.

Do you know how many of those workers have died building those obscene skyscrapers and man made island holiday resorts? Some reports state in the thousands some in the tens of thousands. But of course this doesn't bother you does it? Your raghead overlords do what they like in the desolate dustbowl you live in so why shouldn't the ragheads in Dubai do what they like right?

And you really need to somehow get over the fact that Britain had the biggest empire ever and Germany didn't and that Hungary is basically the arsehole of Europe. You really need to get that big bloody kartoffel chip off your shoulder squire.

It is no secret that third world employees are exploited and used in the Middle East. They are the working poor. Physical and sexual abuse is widespread with domestic workers that are imported from the third world. It is disgusting to build an empire and infrastructure at the expense of others misery. It's not right.

(07-20-2013, 01:02 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: It is no secret that third world employees are exploited and used in the Middle East. They are the working poor. Physical and sexual abuse is widespread with domestic workers that are imported from the third world. It is disgusting to build an empire and infrastructure at the expense of others misery. It's not right.

No its not right.

I refuse to holiday in Dubai purely on moral grounds.

Yeah, tell that the English and their spotless record regarding disgusting methods to build an empire and infrastructure. Those Aboriginis still enjoy the fruits of those times.

Oh James, now all of a sudden tens of thousands of workers died? What the fuck you reading over there? The Sun? Mad?

With every large construction site comes death. Most probably a walk into your toilet is of more risk to life than being part of the construction crew that build the Palm or Burj, don't you agree?

You see, judging by the way down town London property is going, those very ragheads do what they like very much right on your porch. Of course, apart from London the rest of England is a rather sad and pathetic landscape, hence nobody being interested in it, apart from a pub in Bournemouth perhaps with a well endowed waitress called Lilly, but the rest? Utter and total rubbish old chap, no?

(07-20-2013, 01:13 PM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: I refuse to holiday in Dubai purely on moral grounds.

No, you refuse because you can't get that fat arse of yours out of that so beloved Lazy Boy of yours as well as not being in a position to finance a bus ticket for the journey, let's forget about a flight since Ryan Air ain't doing that trip, right?

No, your holiday consists of re-enacting a trip to Mallorca by pulling out the rubber pool into the living room and chuck a bit of sand and tanning oil around, while putting little umbrella's and a slice of cucumber into your glass of tap water.