... the case turned to an international embarrassment.

they'd probably change the law in a hurry. Why celebs go there all the time I have no idea. Think Salma Hayek was there awhile back. Going to Dubai is like a PR fuckup. Worse than Jlo singing to a dictator that really wasn't her job to find out. It should be but musicians are rarely told anything. Bit different from the MPAA. RIAA doesn't care what happens to it's artists..

of tourists or short-term business residents being neck-deep in shit (with their passports confiscated) whenever they get upset or try to imply publicly that Dubai isn't paradise on Earth for all peoples...

If you've got a measly million dollars in your bank account, you're pond scum!

any westerner of any stripe would want to go to, visit, work in or even fly though the middle east.

with his wife once and snuck a few nude photo shoots there. Frapping risky but possibly a bit more legal since they are married. (he's from Norway) Luba is from the Ukraine


actually I think Paris Hilton being scantly clad actually did cause an incident because she was photographed in a bikini

refuse to do business with countries like the UAE until they make progress in thrir culture. If a woman can't report a rape without facing jail time, there's a serious problem with their society.

I know it'll never happen.

People care more about human rights than oil and money.
And questions like that are no longer necessary.

While presently the US is actually sending in more refined products to the UAE then we are getting in crude, the UAE has the sixth largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world. Thus we are as dependent on them, given how much oil goes to our other trading partners, as they on us.

In simple terms, cut off trade, strengthens China, which is something the US does not want.

http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=tc

They must be wonderful people over there....


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These mysoginists are barbarians, clear and simple.