Tockalosh

Absolutely, a real pain in the ass for travellers during the month. I believe, if the story is to be believed, that the government compensates the fancy hotels for their loss of business during Ramadan because funny enough you dont see any Kuwaitis, Saudis or Qataris during the holy month.

Will wait and see if the Dilly and Brit clubs are allowed to open as usual or if the long standing threat to make them close as well will be enforced. I think now that Shias are not being appeased, all will be well.

Am glad to say that during the national dialogue to create group hugs and a new Bahrain, our shias demanded that booze be banned immediately, now there was a surprize. This was thrown out as it wouldnt reflect the desire to welcome all religions and nationalities. 3 cheers for common sense for everyone (bar the shias of course).

Norm_uk

It would be interesting but to be fair going to another country and trying to set up separate laws is a declaration of war for all intents and purposes...law is the heart of a society and culture.

If we tried that on in the UAE they'd send in the troops very quickly. They barely tolerate other branches of Islam and jail their own people for asking for a little bit more democracy...

N.

Norm_uk

It's odd that the locals can say if you don't like it go home and it's generally accepted. But when the locals in Europe say that they are intolerant racists.

You're quite right about Western nations being tolerant and giving out citizenship fairly easily. Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. I think that's what we have today in the West - weakness and apathy. Before 1960 virtually every leader in the Muslim world wanted to make their country more like Britain, France and America. Today most Muslim leaders want to make Britain, France and America like their country.

N.

Mischief Queen

I know about this first hand and in what must be a first - the Gulf News have reported it more accurately than the National. The basic facts are the same and it doesn't change the fact that the woman was pretty stupid mind but the initial post was just saying Ramadan is finally nearly over hooray (or v.similar) and it escalated from there.


http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/cr...3-000-1.841029

Blue Cat

why didn't she have her security settings set to only friends?

typical

Cite please? Sharia courts in the UK have absolutely no ability to override criminal law, and can only be used if both parties agree of free will. I'd love to read about how an abuse case could be accepted.

norsk

you know about it first hand? as in it was you?

norsk

as far as i am aware it is more like arbitration (in terms of legal power), but the parties choose to follow their rulings (despite not having to)...

Mischief Queen

No - I know the person though.

BC - this woman was one of her friends on facebook - an ex colleague who she'd never had any reason to delete. She did delete her when the row got nasty but it was obviously too late. Added to which some other facebook friends grassed her up on the comments she wrote after defriending the woman in question.

Blue Cat

nice friends eh!!

Mischief Queen

Yep - you certainly find out who your real friends are when the chips are down!

Blue Cat

I feel sorry for her, not a nice situation to be in and we all use FB and other SM platforms to rant

shiva

rather my point i think.
if i remember there were a few pieces in the times and other papers about a month ago.

typical

Wasn't that entirely driven by the claims of Baroness Cox as she put her
equality bill to Parliament?

The problem was, nobody actually had convincing evidence to put forward about how widespread the things being claimed were. It's also interesting that, despite Judaism also having its sexist elements, nobody was complaining about Beth Din courts.

(That said, there's nothing in the bill itself I wouldn't want to see.)

Norm_uk

Indeed, they didn't do a lot for the 900,000 Arabs who they encouraged to leave Israel because they were going to "push the Jews into the sea". Obviously that didn't work and the 900,000 or so who are now called Palestinians make a fantastic PR weapon against the Jewish state (which took in over 500,000 Jews from the middle east who were ejected by their Arab cousins.

Messy old world.

N.