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Quite simply he should've known better than to be steaming drunk at 4am (which he would've been to get in any trouble) and being a twat (which he would've been to get in any trouble) AND give the guy he bumped into shit (which he must've done to get in any trouble) and then give the police shit (which he must've done to get in any trouble).
I've seen people do all sorts of really stupid things while extremely drunk out here and nothing ever happens. There's more to the story than is being reported, I'm quite sure.
In any case, you'll note that all the injustices apparently done by the Dubai courts are against Brits who got fantastically drunk and then did something stupid. This guy had almost certainly been drinking for 16 hours (probably starting at brunch on Friday at midday)...
Random example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23381448
These are the voices of victims who are westerners. For those lower down the racist pecking order, or for Emiratis who dare write the wrong sort of letter to the government, their voices are not so often heard here. Dubai justice is f*ck*d up enough to have its own Amnesty International page: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/united-arab-emirates-uae-free-speech-repression-injustice-censorship
And western expats never know what went on because the UAE judicial system is not even remotely transparent. The Gulf News and Khaleej Times cannot print the whole truth, even if they know it. So there's a grapevine of Chinese whispers about what happened, with no-one knowing. However, every last one of them - including our fellow forumites - know that they do not want to be on the receiving end of Dubai justice (sic).
Another example: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-01/bringing-dubai-injustice-to-light/5357652
And if you've got the stomach for it: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=glKOe5qNaCc (I've put a space in there so that FB doesn't parse the URL into an inline video. (This will also help to explain why the UAE and other neighbouring states want Qatar to gag Al Jazeera.)
I know very good and kind Muslim people but I wouldn't like to visit some of their countries. That is for fear for my life if I screwed up.
Free speech and open for debate: This is my own opinion and is no reflection of the views of this forum.
Not my favourite place, for sure.
More than anything Dubai is a massive contradiction. It's trying to be a capital of business and tourism in a place where the law technically doesn't allow tourists to drink alcohol. I'm not going to pretend there isn't plenty that I miss about home (and I'm glad I live in Abu Dhabi rather than Dubai as it's much quieter and there are fewer dickheads) but there is loads of good too.
The food in a lot of places is incredible - particularly the huge number of Indian & Pakistani restaurants. And the infrastructure, when they get it right, is second to none. The Dubai Metro is brilliant and the standard of roads is very very high even compared with the best of the west. Both Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports are exceptional in terms of process - as a resident I scan my passport (AUH) or ID card (DXB) at immigration and can be off a plane and in the back of a cab inside 10 minutes on a good day.
(As always, it relies on secret filming to find out what conditions are really like; it is not fully reported in the local press.)
And it's not just construction workers, it's maids and many thousands of other servants, too. They hand their passports to their employer when they arrive and they do what they're told in the hope that they will be paid as promised. (Don't even ask what happens to the poor maid who gets pregnant - even if through rape - while in Dubai.)
Im not going to make excuses and I’m not going to argue as I’ve had the same conversations with plenty of people who’ve already made up their minds.
It is a significantly more complex issue than is presented by left leaning western media.
The second they got through the hotel door they where at the bar, the guy ordered booze, the hijab came off revealing a hooker.
My kids got quite good at it BTW.
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