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

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.

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

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.

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.

Some lovely golf courses there.

JohnCleary wrote: »

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

What do you think John? Why do you think you were treated differently to this woman? Now, have a think about it.

cdeb wrote: »

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.

^This.

There was a report a few years back of a couple being arrested in Dubai for holding hands. Turns out they were riding on the beach, drunk, in full view of families - something that would get you arrested in a lot of countries, civilised or uncivilised.

JupiterKid wrote: »

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?

Because it’s not the shìthole the Western media makes it out to be, in the simplest and most straightforward answer to your question. For many Irish people living in Dubai, Ireland is a shìthole by comparison. I’ve a mate living over there five years now and she’s loving every minute of it, happiest she’s ever been in her life, and sent me video of The Coronas playing there in concert on St. Patrick’s Day where they were having a right good knees up. Over here, we were subjected to people pissing on the streets and knocking seven bells out of each other.

Perspective I guess, is what matters.

To answer the OPs question, people dont care because only Trump supporters are evil.

Left wing loonies know that anyone else is incapable of being evil.

Adrian Icy Hand wrote:

I'd question this story. I was over there earlier in the year and drank about 8 cans on the flight had a bottle of whiskey in my carry on from duty free in Dublin and spent a large part of my week over there drinking including being absolutely hammered on one occasion and never had even a slight bit of hassle (bar taxi drivers being reluctant to take drunk people). Great spot have to say, their boozy brunches are legendary and some craic.

Think you might have other issues... 8 cans on a flight <8hours.

I know others who've lived in Abu Dhabi and left due to the archaic laws on co-occomodation and alcohol. You haven't lived there

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.

i know, shur itl be mihey craic begorra. :puke. the country should be stripped of the world cup.

Niles Crane wrote: »

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.

hellholes like that country don't deserve to have their laws respected. for laws to be respected, they must be just and fair.

JohnCleary wrote: »

Because there was no issue with my Visa.

Because I didn't get stroppy with an Immigration Officer.

Because I didn't start recording an Immigration Officer with my phone.

There's 3 reasons

only 1 of those is a reason, the first one.