nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

Why do people still go to Dubai with its contempt for basic human rights?

JupiterKid

More human rights abuses wielded by that backward and frankly barbaric place Dubai where the glittering skyscrapers are really just a desert mirage built on sand and are not fooling a lot of people.

Latest story to emerge is that a UK resident Swedish woman and her young daughter were imprisoned for the lady drinking one glass of wine on a flight to that sh*thole.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/mother-held-in-dubai-for-three-days-after-one-glass-of-wine-on-flight-861329.html

Why do Westerners still choose to live and holiday there?

In the case of the former, I can see why some people who don’t give a rat’s ass what happens to others - like tourists and residents who get on the wrong side of their medieval laws and who pay the price - are bribed by tax free big incomes but tourists who go there, a place where those glittering buildings that are the product of what amounts to indentured slave labour from poorer countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh. What is the appeal?

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

Niles Crane

If you don't like their laws don't go there.

If people are going to go there then the least they can do is try and respect their laws regardless of how stupid they may be.

The same applies to people from muslim countries going to other countries.

nim1bdeh38l2cw

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Nah, sure let’s have them host the World Cup instead. Let’s huy their oil and duty free and pretend we don’t know how these **** treat migrant workers.

Well that's like saying Ireland is part of Britain.

JohnnyFlash

Some lovely golf courses there.

cdeb

JohnCleary wrote: »

I can't help but think there's more to this story.

What's the story with UK residents and visa for Dubai? I've never had to get a visa for Dubai visits (VOR?) and ive stayed almost a week at a time. They refer to an invalid visa in the report. What visa?!

Full story would be nice to hear

I thought that as well. But UK (and Swedish) residents can get a visa on arrival, so I don't see why a visa would be checked at all. I know I was there for a day while transiting to India, and I don't recall any checks on onward connections or whether I had a visa for India. I also had a glass of wine in a restaurant at the top of a skyscraper there; the alcohol rules certainly aren't as strict as noted.

All a bit strange. Obviously completely unacceptable if it happened as outlined. Maybe I'm just inherently sceptical of the press given they're happy putting out clickbait articles with obvious holes in them rather than doing proper investigations.

Also, why would she lose money on legal fees? Surely consular assistance should kick in?

Pauliedragon

That story isn't as simple as her having a glass of wine. She turned up with no visa, starting mouthing off at the immi officials then tried to film them. Yes locking her up for that is probably a bit harsh but personally I don't have much sympathy for her, she should know better than to cause a scene in a place like that. This whole "she was locked up for simply having a glass of wine" bull**** is just media headlining nonsense as usual.

suicide_circus

it's rank hypocrisy.

people who will malign ireland for its treatment of women/travellers/ the homeless etc will in the next breath tell you they're just back from a place with indentured servitude, gross and flagrant human rights abuses with the wholesale repression of women and gays.

Tom Dunne

Look a bit closer at that story and you will see that all is not as reported.

The initial dispute appears to have been about a visa. The woman obviously didn't like the border guard's attitude (having been there many times, they are condescending, disinterested pricks) so decided to record their interaction on her phone. Anyone with half a brain knows you don't record stuff in an arrivals hall of an airport. Try doing that in the US and see what happens.

The line about alcohol consumption in Dubai is true, for Muslims. As long as you don't cause a scene, you can drink as much as you want, despite what the story says. Yes, I am speaking from experience.

I would guess, and I admit it is pure speculation, that the prick of an immigration officer didn't like the attitude of a feisty woman (they prefer them subservient and malleable), so started on about alcohol. It appears to have spiralled downwards after that.

Totally and utterly disgusting situation for that woman to find herself in.

Das Reich

I bet my ass that the people that complain about Dubai not followiong the human rights are the same that defends the islamization of Europe.

JohnCleary

I can't help but think there's more to this story.

I landed in Dubai last year in an absolute state. Drank in the airport for another 3 hours and then on to a plane for Bangkok. They stopped.me at the gate and said they thought I was too drunk to fly. A bit of persuasion and using the excuse of me flying business class was infact because I had a very important meeting in Bangkok, they allowed me board.

What's the story with UK residents and visa for Dubai? I've never had to get a visa for Dubai visits (VOR?) and ive stayed almost a week at a time. They refer to an invalid visa in the report. What visa?!

Full story would be nice to hear.

Just to add, I don't like Dubai or what it stands for... we only go as it's either a layover or to visit friends

JupiterKid

end of the road wrote: »

maybe because for the most part they seem to be unaware of the reality of such a hell hole.

I think that, at this stage, many if not most Westerners know that Dubai is basically an unsustainable mirage sitting atop a completely undemocratic backward Middle Eastern regime that acts with vicious impunity against a very unlucky few who are meted out barbaric treatment but they simply choose to look the other way. Avert their gaze from the ugly reality.

Sad but true - Dubai is a perfect example of the dark side of human nature and all that is wrong and bad about humanity as a species.

[Deleted User]

UAE prime minister's daughter Latifa Mohammed Al Maktoum, has twice tried to flee the country, in order to 'claim her life back', as she put it. She was tracked down in March 2018 and brought back to Dubai. She has not been seen publicly since.

She had made a couple of Youtube videos telling her story, before she fled.

Trigger Happy

end of the road wrote: »

the media should be reporting every single human rights abuse that goes on in this and other hell holes if and where possible.

Nah, sure let’s have them host the World Cup instead. Let’s huy their oil and duty free and pretend we don’t know how these **** treat migrant workers.

Noveight

Many newly qualified teachers do a stint over there because the rate of pay is far greater than it is here.

Get in, line your pockets, get out. Hard to blame them.

end of the road

the media should be reporting every single human rights abuse that goes on in this and other hell holes if and where possible.

Tzardine

Because people just dont care.

Not trying to troll, but its true. The majority of folk just dont care about this kind of stuff. So long as the place looks good on an instagram photo to show their mates they are happy.

Edit - Should also say, I lived in the middle east for a while, including Dubai. Its a weird place, for somewhere that is so strict in many things, I have never been in a place where prostitution was so in your face. The bars / hotels are full of them. Even one time I was with my girlfriend we were still getting propositioned for threesomes. This was around the same time the couple were jailed for a year for kissing on the beach.