Cow Pie

That'll be half of JBR covering up then... New tattoos, existing tattoos, where is the line...?


http://www.emirates247.com/news/emir...12-15-1.329726

Norm_uk

Just another thing to add to the list:

• Consensual adult sex is illegal unless married.
• Muslim women forbidden by law to marry non-Muslim men - the reverse is not a problem though.
• Not showing affection in public between members of the opposite sex
• Preaching any religion but Islam in public, especially to a Muslim.
• Saying anything unpleasant about Islam, especially it's Prophet
• Saying anything bad about the government.
• Saying anything bad about the local culture or people
• Drinking booze without a license outside of hotel premises
• Checking mirrors and using indicators when changing lanes...

Since us infidels are automatically haram by merit of breathing no one will worry about this fatwa against tattoos.

N.

Cow Pie

busybee2

oh no i abide by the last one, mirrors and using those, in my case, red things that flash on the side of the car

lionheart

As for the showing affection rule, how come young men are allowed to hold hands and kiss in public, willy nilly? No wonder so many Arabs become gay.

Ethos83

Which beggars the question, Norm, of why do you live in this country when you despise it and its culture so much?

Most of us on this forum have our own issues with the UAE but none of us reek of hypocrisy as much as you do.

Norm_uk

Seems I have touched a nerve - or perhaps you've just been reading "How to win friends and influence people" lately.

I'm simply listing some negatives - that's hardly the same as "despising it and it's culture". I can just as easily list negatives about the UK or any other country I am familiar with and still live there as a law abiding and productive member of society without being accused of being a scathing hypocrite by people who don't actually know me personally.

Come to think of it I don't owe you an explanation for why I am here Ethos, or even a polite response - particularly when you feel the need to accuse me of hypocrisy based on my posts in a moaning, whining expat forum...

N.

Ethos83

There are certain topics where you rarely fail to jump in - to the point that it's predictable. The top two are religion and the Islamic world.

On top of it the depth of your dislikes as evidenced in your posts suggests someone who spent, well, too much time obsessing with the flaws of the topic at hand. For most of us life is too short to worry too much about what fatwa in Abu Dhabi said or what some religion leader did 500 years ago.

Bahtatboy

Or, Ethos:

On top of it the depth of your dislikes as evidenced in your posts suggests someone who spent, well, too much time obsessing about other posters' views. For most of us life is too short to worry too much about what some bloke on a forum wrote about 15 minutes ago.

Methinks you do protest too much.

Norm_uk

Even if that's true so what? Why would you care if I am predictable or what subjects I seem to jump into? Have you read all my posts in the last six years to be able to confidently say that's the truth?

Life's probably also too short to take posts in the British Expats forums so seriously to the point where you are making unfounded character judgements against individual posters - posters who've been around a lot longer than you.

It might be a big shock but I'm not here to please or entertain you...or to meet your standards on posting on a variety of topics.

N.

Ronnie Biggs

* Failing to immediately reply to a text message. Particularly while weaving an over-powered 4X4 at 160KM p/h through rush hour traffic on SZR.

Boomhauer

As I started to read the article I was wondering how they would get around abolishing henna, popular with Yemenis and other Arab women. Then read that only permanent tattoos are haram. Looks like they included that loophole in just to accommodate henna, even though they don't say it.

So what they gona do with people already sporting tattoos, force them to cover up? What if you are at the beach and can't possibly cover up?

Umbrella

Ugh...

There's got to be a grandfather clause in all of this...

I just had a huge cloud and a couple hundred rain drops tattooed around my neck...

Might as well throw out the v-neck tees...


U.

Oyibopeppeh

****ing idiots...but lets see if they'll put it into practice...

soukie

I think it's a great idea. I hate tattoos and there does seem to be a lot more on show these days. Not sure how they will enforce it though - maybe part of the medical