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Zorra

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8. No one visits or does business with Dubai in good conscience.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 08:28 PM
Jul 2014

Dubai is a populous city in the United Arab Emirates. An emirate is a patriarchal monarchy.

The United Arab Emirates is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college for the federation's President and Prime Minister. As most emirates have either disappeared, been integrated in a larger modern state or changed their rulers' styles, e.g. to malik (Arabic for king) or sultan, such true emirate-states have become rare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate


It's not surprising that such malevolent, degrading practices exist freely in a city ruled by hereditary patriarchal monarchs.

I have been traveling recently, and many of the airports and major metro stations were full of advertising imploring people to "come to Dubai". Coincidentally, I took this picture below, of one of these Dubai posters in Union Station in Chicago, last Saturday.



Thank you for your post to help raise awareness of what a totally evil place Dubai is.

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