Posted on 02/17/2025 6:44:37 AM PST by RandFan
What are the strict rules in Dubai?
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Dubai has strict rules that adhere to Sharia law, including rules on public displays of affection, dress, and drug use.
Public displays of affection
Public displays of affection (PDA) are not tolerated, including kissing and hugging
Married couples can hold hands, but other PDA is illegal
Dress
Women should dress modestly outside of resorts
Shopping malls often have dress codes
Immodest dress, such as bare arms, low necklines, and short shorts, is not permitted
Drug use
Dubai has a zero tolerance policy for drugs, including prescription medicines that contain codeine
Possessing even small amounts of illegal drugs can lead to lengthy prison sentences or the death penalty
Photography
It is illegal to photograph people without their consent
It is illegal to take pictures of some government and military buildings
Other rules
Public drunkenness is illegal
Swearing is illegal
Loud music is prohibited in public areas
It is illegal to share a hotel room with the opposite sex unless you are married
It is illegal to criticize the government
Ramadan
During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to sunset
Eating, drinking, and smoking is strictly forbidden during daylight hours
>>Why on EARTH anyone would ever want to go there escapes me. NO THANK YOU.<<
I agree TOTALLY with you.
That isn’t the Dark Side of Dubai, this is...
https://youtu.be/r-MmMP0hQSw?si=woK4-qdD2U9HpGAP
Oh yeah, the AFC Richmond team on Ted Lasso had Emirates on their jerseys at the beginning of the series - until they got another sponsor.
Maybe they go there to investigate the legends that say in Dubai there is a very bright orange ball of fire that hangs in the sky, and it creates light and warmth for all.
Took the wife to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. Told her to cover up her legs and arms and hair when she was in Egypt and Jordan, and in Jerusalem too. But I had to buy her some hats.
Manchester City is Etihad Airways, they are based in Abu Dhabi.
I will not set foot on Muslim land.
For me, Dubai was one of the three places we’d use to go in and out of Baghdad for mobilization/demobilization or R&R. We were sometimes there up to three days.
The other two places were Kuwait and Amman, Jordan.
Dubai was a popular destination for rich Saudis and Kuwaitis because alcohol is legal there, but not in Saudi or Kuwait.
And, as mentioned elsewhere on the thread, prostitution was pretty obvious. The ladies of the evening would swarm the hotel lobby as a group of us were checking in having just arrived off the Baghdad charter.
They were also all over the hotel bars and restaurants. Mostly Chinese, Russians and Ukrainians. Once in a while, one of my male traveling companions would disappear with one for a bit, both most of them didn’t take them up on their offers.
I had an IT manager who taught and consulted in Saudi Arabia. Said he lived in an American gated community where alcohol and other things were permitted provided it stayed within the gated community.
Dubai (and most on Arabia) runs on slave labor.
Migrant laborers make up 88% of Dubai’s population. They recruit semi-literate manual laborers from Australasia and the Indian subcontinent, people too poor to have access to the information to be forewarned of what awaits them.
They’re given a plane ticket and when they land in Dubai, they’re forced to surrender their passport. They’re warehoused in an overcrowded dormitory and paid a small stipend with the balance to be paid when their employer is satisfied that they have completed the conditions of their contract are fulfilled.
A contract that they largely can’t read.
The life is harsh and the jobs are back-breaking and/or dangerous. And if they don’t perform a suitable day’s work, the term of their contract is extended. So once they’ve arrived, they have no way to know when they’ll be released. It could take three years to fulfill a one-year contract.
Workers sometimes disappear and aren’t missed for weeks or months. The mummified bodies of workers on the Burj Khalifa were found on balconies where they landed when they fell off a higher floor weeks earlier.
It’s indentured servitude, and a fairly nasty form at that.
Dubai is new and clean and glittering and brightly-colored. The lawns and shrubs and trees all immaculately groomed. Just like Disneyworld. But you never see the jabroni laborers who keep it that way. They’re all out there in the dark of night so the natives won’t have their eyes soiled by the sight of them.
It’s a wondrous and spectacular place, ... at least until you realize the human suffering that goes into keeping it that way.
That’s true.
Vegas used to be cheap. We’d stay at Circus Circus in the way to Los Angeles for the cheap room and cheap buffet and the games for the kids. No more. Prices have skyrocketed. After all it is a criminal city full of scammers and thieves. Maybe getting rid of the mob was a bad idea. The mob has higher standards than Nevada’s government. At least they are better businessmen.
Ba da bing!
“ The mob has higher standards than Nevada’s government. At least they are better businessmen.”
The Mob had a longer view than the next election, and understood that long-term viability was dependent upon the place staying an affordable and safe place to have fun at.
My family visited me there once. The water park was a trip. Muslim women covered head to foot and western women in bikinis.
No, they only need to wear head cover to enter a mosque. Like I said, you don't see them on the streets, but hanging out in the hotels. You can also find cards for them all over the place as well.
A lot of second or third generation Magrehb immigrants in Europe go to the petro dollar Middle East to find work. They can make a ton of money and the stricts law are a plus to reign in their restlessness and most of time lawlessness (blame that on the leftist education and judicial system). Dubai is rather high end compared to UAE or Saudi Arabia. I have a neighbour’s son who found his first job as an air conditionning technician in Dubai. He earned about 3x the money he would have in France and his parents are delighted to have him far from his ‘bad friends’.
Was common knowledge amongst us going into the Gulf at the time how Mooselimbs rolled.
Very interesting thread 🙂
There is just one fact I would like to add: maybe one of the reasons for the relatively close relationship between Britain and the Emirates stems from history - the Emirates used to be part of the Trucial States, which were protectorates of the British Empire.
If I remember correctly, many sheiks still send their children to Britain for an education.
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