Acceptable behaviour in Dubai
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I've travelled around the world several times and visited many countries. In any country you must follow their rules and laws. If you don't, expect to be punished if caught. If you can't accept that...don't go.
ya ..they should have known better, especially the girl who was employed there.
But Emirate law only applies to the tourists, the poor and the women...bunch of hipocrites.
I spent a few months there, with my balcony right across the street from the front door of one of the "designated" escort residences.
The girls are almost all EE, (mostly blondes). They work at a very few specific nightclubs where they simply hang around the bar waiting. These look like regular dance bars with a very high ratio of females to males. Probably because everyone knows, that at these bars the women are all working girls. About an hour before closing the girls "come to life", and start looking for customers.
There is a constant parade of Mercedes at night that circle the residence. If you know the girls name, you ask the doorman and he buzzes her for you...otherwise you do not get in. The funny part is that at least half the cars had their wives...and I mean wives, as in 3 or 4, in the car waiting for them.
Do as I say...not as I do...
But Emirate law only applies to the tourists, the poor and the women...bunch of hipocrites.
I spent a few months there, with my balcony right across the street from the front door of one of the "designated" escort residences.
The girls are almost all EE, (mostly blondes). They work at a very few specific nightclubs where they simply hang around the bar waiting. These look like regular dance bars with a very high ratio of females to males. Probably because everyone knows, that at these bars the women are all working girls. About an hour before closing the girls "come to life", and start looking for customers.
There is a constant parade of Mercedes at night that circle the residence. If you know the girls name, you ask the doorman and he buzzes her for you...otherwise you do not get in. The funny part is that at least half the cars had their wives...and I mean wives, as in 3 or 4, in the car waiting for them.
Do as I say...not as I do...
Acceptable Behaviour in Dubai
Video was a good primer for my upcoming trip to Dubai..
Video was a good primer for my upcoming trip to Dubai..
danmand said:
Personally, I don’t agree with Islamic Puritanism.
However, when you travel abroad, you must always show respect for the local customs and beliefs, regardless of where you are and regardless of whether you agree with them or not.
You must always remember that you’re a guest in their country and you must always act like one.
If you don’t then you deserve what happens to you.
However, when you travel abroad, you must always show respect for the local customs and beliefs, regardless of where you are and regardless of whether you agree with them or not.
You must always remember that you’re a guest in their country and you must always act like one.
If you don’t then you deserve what happens to you.
It's not an easy situation to comment on. If the couple blatantly disregarded local custom and law, then sure they deserve punishment, though three months is ridiculous.
But the hypocrisy is crazy over there. I can see as how it would be very easy for visitors to forget themselves, since so many of the well to do flout there own countries laws so flagrantly.
But the hypocrisy is crazy over there. I can see as how it would be very easy for visitors to forget themselves, since so many of the well to do flout there own countries laws so flagrantly.
Why is is that we're all saying, and rightly so, that when you go to another country, you should respect their laws & customs, but people immigrating to Canada do not? We can't even get quebec to treat one of our national languages with any respect, never-mind getting Shiites not to carry around daggers because it is against the law. Don't get me started about religious freedom either, the laws of the land should always over-rule any religious customs.
Having spent considerable time in the Gulf on active wartime service duty, the advice Commanding Officers gave us for downtime or leave was always "leave the exotic fantasies of Sultan life at home, and see the reality of this place for what it is...use your eyes, think with your big head, not your little head, or worse still, with your idealistic western hearts. You may even go home standing up...." Good advice that still holds true today.
serviceman said:
Actually it's the Sihks who carry daggers.
However, I totally agree with what you are saying.
When it comes to the law - Canada is a secular nation. However, all religions try to get the government to do it their way from Sharia law for the Muslims (thankfully struck down) to the Jews pressuring the City of Toronto to put up their ERUV symbols on all the bridges around town.
That was one thing McGuinty did that was right on when the Muslims wanted to have their own "tribunals" under Sharia law. McGuinty not only quashed the muslims, but he quashed the Jews and the Christians who all had or wanted the same thing. (Now I'm sure they still go on behind closed doors, but they carry NO legal weight at all.)
Good for McGuinty.
james t kirk said:
What the fark is a ERUV symbol and why would the taxpayers have to pay for it???
Rhetorical on the second one, I know the answer to that.
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LancsLad said:
ERUV is Orthodox Jewish Voodoo essentially.
The Orhto Jews have a rule that on the Sabath (Friday at Sundown, till Saturday at Sundown) you can't do any work. Not even turn on a light, nor cook a meal, or change your baby's diaper.
Unless of course you live inside the old walled city (I guess like Juruselem.)
Needless to say, Toronto doesn't have an enclosed wall.
However, what it does have is railways. Railways have fences and could be considered walls. So somehow the Orthodox Jews got their head around using railways to create "an old walled City"
Only problem is that the fences are not continuous. (Where you have roads going under the tracks, you no longer have a continuous wall - hence, you have a problem.)
So, there, you need gates.
The only problem is that despite the City of Toronto bending over backwards for these guys, even they (City Officials) would have a hard time allowing gates to be installed to block the roads.
So, the Jews figured that they could have ceremonial gates.
So if you look closely at a whole whack of bridges around Toronto (that usually carry railways) there are these god awful plastic strips about 6" wide nailed (literally) to the abutments, retaining walls, railings, etc. These form the ceremonial gate for the Jews. (For example - at Christies Street, Shaw Street, Davenport etc. etc. at the CPR north of Dupont. Also on Eglinton Avenue east of Keele, etc. They are all over the place.
By doing so, all those Orthodox Jews who live within the area bounded by a certain area by the railways in Toronto are allowed to do their day to day chores on Friday and Saturday without fear that God will strike them dead.
I'm serious.
And yes, the taxpayers paid for that, as did the railways. What makes it really bad is just how rinky dink poor quality these "gates" are.
PS, my friend is Reformed Jewish and he had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
james t kirk said:
Thanks for the explanation. Amazing.
I suppose its just further evidence on how our spineless pols don't cower before the "non existent" jewish lobby.
Someone with a real sense of humour should take them down. See if God show up and starts smiting .
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Was it ever? Hot - yes, Islamic - yes although not as bad as Saudi Arabia or Iran, scenery - do you like sand?, wildlife - no, reefs/fish - not like the Red Sea.ExoticSpirit said:
