tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168112031264856799.post4077837078513184944..comments2023-05-30T00:32:50.415-07:00Comments on ALAH: Arab Lesbians Against Hate: Banned in the UAE!Fatimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440284278736820250noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168112031264856799.post-25339059092562881022010-04-12T00:20:30.401-07:002010-04-12T00:20:30.401-07:00Congratulations! Banned in the UAE is a pretty goo...Congratulations! Banned in the UAE is a pretty good distinction for a blog.BBJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09939946821381798057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168112031264856799.post-18259786019052817252010-04-04T20:09:09.357-07:002010-04-04T20:09:09.357-07:00More fun and games in the UAE:
A Dubai appeals co...More fun and games in the UAE:<br /><br />A Dubai appeals court judge has upheld the verdict against a British couple caught kissing in public.<br /><br />Unless the couple makes a second appeal within 30 days, the court's decision Sunday means authorities will jail the couple for a month and then deport them. They will also be fined $300 for drinking alcohol.<br /><br />Ayman Najafi and Charlotte Adams were arrested in November, accused of kissing and touching each other intimately in public -- violations of law against public indecency -- and consuming alcohol.<br /><br />Najafi is a British man who lives and works in Dubai; Charlotte Adams is a British female tourist who was visiting the city-state at the time.<br /><br />The couple was dining with friends at Bob's Easy Diner, one of a stretch of cafes on a popular strip behind the city's Jumeirah Beach. An Emirati woman with her family reported their behavior to police.<br /><br />The foreign population has soared in Dubai in recent years as expatriates, courted by the country, flock to the booming emirate to work.<br /><br />Now, expatriates outnumber locals by more than eight to one in the port city -- one of seven emirates that make up the oil-rich Gulf nation.<br /><br />But the population changes and the breakneck modernization of the sheikdom has also often caused friction with the deeply conservative social and religious identity of the locals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com