The schills for this agreement keep telling us that we should trust the UAE, and that the UAE is different from all of the other Islamic dictatorships, simply because they allow so much foreign investment, and have an affinity for some quasi-capitalist practices.
Whether or not a country is capitalist is not relevant in my opinion, if it has none of the other characteristics of a genuinely democratic, stable, pluralistic free nation.
The UAE was just condemned by the U.S. State Dept., and has the same scale of freedom-perhaps not quite as bad-as Saudi Arabia.
That's not what I would consider an "ally."